Pro at Particle Physics, Here's Why Scientist Rohini Godbole Is A True Inspiration

Indian Physicist Professor Rohini Godbole was awarded The National Order Of Merit By Government Of France today. Here's a look at what makes her an inspiration to leaders across careers.

• Professor Rohini Godbole has been with the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore for over 25 years. She is a professor at the centre for High Energy Physics in the institute.
• Godbole is a particle physicist best known for her work at CERN. Godbole's research on high energy photons could form the basis for the next generation of particle colliders, used to study the fabric and composition of the Universe. She works on aspects of the Standard Model of particle physics, which describes the properties and behaviour of elementary particles of the Universe.
• Godbole has an MSc from IIT-Bombay and a PhD in theoretical particle physics from the State University of New York.
• Godbole hails from Maharashtra. She was born in 1952 in a town near Pune. She has three other sisters, also working in the field of science.
• Godbole started out her career as a visiting fellow at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai in 1979
• Apart from her work in academics, Prof. Godbole is also a much sought-after communicator of science, often delivering talks to young students, scholars and scientists on everything physics.
• Godbole is the co-author of the book Lilawati's Daughters which celebrates Indian women in science.

Awards and Recognition

• M.Sc. in Physics from IIT ( Mumbai) with a silver Medal
• Rustom Choksi Award for Excellence in Research in Science of the Indian Institute of Science (2006)
• Awarded the Sheel Memorial Award for the Best Woman Scientist Lecture-2000, NationalAcademy of Sciences,India, (2000).
• Member, Board of Advisory Editors, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Physics, 2018-2020.
• Professor Rohini M Godbole was one of 19 women that received the prestigious Padma Shri Award in 2019
• Member, High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, USA, 2018-2020.
• Godbole Gets Awarded The National Order Of Merit By Government Of France
• And this list of awards is not an exhaustive one.

Her passion

• Spending my time watching some of the BBC serialisation of John Le Carre books or Father Brown stories.
• Godbole also actively writes, whether on her own website or while authoring papers and journals.