Dr Vidita Vaidya
Location: India
Vidita is a professor of neuroscience at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. She was featured in the Indian Academy of Sciences’ book Lilavati’s Daughters, which is a collection of biographical essays on Indian female scientists. In 2015, she won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in medical sciences, and in 2019, the Nature Mentoring in Science Award for her philosophy of putting people above productivity and nurturing students.
You can follow her work here:
Twitter: @ViditaVaidya
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vidita-vaidya-3346622
Website: tifr.res.in/~dbs/faculty/V_Vaidya.html
Further reading:
- Vidita Vaidya, Wikipedia
- How our brain changes with experience (video), TEDx Talks, 28 May 2015
- Vidita Vaidya Gets Into Your Head, Nandita Jayaraj, The Life of Science, 30 May 2016
- What the best mentors do, Amber Dance, Nature, 6 February 2020