Sharada Srinivasan is a professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India, and an Honorary University Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK.
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Sharada Srinivasan was awarded India's fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2019.
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Sharada Srinivasan's father is an Indian nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer and her mother is nature conservationist and a wild life activist.
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Sharada Srinivasan is a professor in the Programme of Heritage and Society in the School of Humanities at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India since 2012.
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Sharada Srinivasan started her journey as NIAS as a Fellow, became assistant professor in 2006 and served in the role till 2012.
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Sharada Srinivasan is first author of the book 'India's Legendary Wootz Steel: An advanced material of the ancient world'.
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Sharada Srinivasan is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and World Academy of Art and Science, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Sharada Srinivasan was co-recipient of a British Council funded UKEIRI research awards, of a Royal Society-DST award, as well as an ongoing UKIERI-II Award related to developing joint PhD.
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In 2009, Sharada Srinivasan co-chaired the seventh Beginning of the Use of Metals and Alloys international conference in Bangalore.
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Sharada Srinivasan undertook further research on technical evidence for high carbon steel by ancient crucible processes and ancient high-tin Bronzes and the surviving groups in Kerala for manufacture of high-tin bronze vessels and mirrors and lost wax casting.
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Sharada Srinivasan was recently featured in this site Trowel blazers of University College London on women archaeologists.
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Sharada Srinivasan is a performing artist specialising in the South Indian classical dance of Bharatanatyam.
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Sharada Srinivasan has performed and lectured at the Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal Academy of Arts, for the Chola exhibition, the International Academy of Astronautics, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, INTACH-Belgium, Nehru Centre, London, China Conservatory of Music, National History of Science Seminar, Hyderabad, University of Toyoma, Japan and others.
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Sharada Srinivasan had a photo-exhibition in June 2008 at Alliance Francaise Bangalore entitled 'Cosmic Dance of Shiva' on art-science-dance perspectives related to South Indian bronzes and the Nataraja.
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Sharada Srinivasan was conferred with the Dr Kalpana Chawla State Award for Women Scientists 2011 instituted by the Government of Karnataka.