CURATORIAL TEAM

DANIELLE OLSEN

Curator

Danielle Olsen is International Cultural Producer at Wellcome. She has a background in history and philosophy of science, contemporary art, museums, film and radio. Danielle thrives on working collaboratively to explore and share ideas and experiences in compelling and meaningful ways – through artist residencies, exhibitions, public programming, commissions, films, broadcasts, books and walks. She is passionate about supporting imaginative and inclusive approaches to tackling global health challenges. Her recent work includes Contagious Cities (an exploration of epidemic-preparedness in Berlin, Geneva, Hong Kong and New York) and Art in Global Health (6 artist residencies in medical research centres in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Thailand, the UK and Vietnam). Next up is Mindscapes (an international cultural programme about mental health).

JAHNAVI PHALKEY

Historian of Science

Jahnavi Phalkey was appointed Founding Director of Science Gallery Bengaluru in November 2018. Previously she was faculty at King’s College London. She started her academic career at the University of Heidelberg, following which she was based at Georgia Tech-Lorraine, France, and Imperial College London. She was Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (the Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin). She was external curator to the Science Museum London, and has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Jahnavi is the author of Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India and has co- edited Science of Giants: China and India in the Twentieth Century. She holds a doctoral degree in history of science and technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

ACADEMIC ADVISORS

MUKUND THATTAI

Biologist

Mukund Thattai obtained a B.A. in Physics from Cornell University in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. Mukund's interests straddle many disciplines. Immediately following his Ph.D., Mukund took up an independent position as a Young Investigator at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore; in 2007 he joined the NCBS faculty. Mukund's laboratory at NCBS uses both experimental and computational techniques to study how cells work. He has made key contributions in the area of synthetic biology, a field which attempts to combine genes into biological circuits. Mukund is deeply involved in public engagement efforts and art/science collaborations, working with conceptual artists and theatre practitioners to explore the practice of biology and its impact on society

SANJOY BHATTACHARYA

Historian of Medicine

Sanjoy Bhattacharya is Director of the History Department’s Centre for Global Health Histories, Professor in the History of Medicine, a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator and the Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Health Histories (based at the University of York). Sanjoy specialises in the health, medical, environmental, political and social history of nineteenth and twentieth century South Asia, as well as the history and contemporary workings of international and global health programmes around the world. Sanjoy is deeply involved in the World Health Organization’s Global Health Histories project (GHH), whose global activities are coordinated from inside the WHO’s Regional Office for Europe.

SHAHID JAMEEL

Virologist

Shahid Jameel has been Chief Executive Officer of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance since April 2013. He did his PhD in Biochemistry from Washington State University (USA) and his postdoctoral work in Molecular Virology from the University of Colorado Medical School (USA). Prior to joining the India Alliance, he was Group Leader of Virology at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (New Delhi, India) for over 25 years, where his research focused on the hepatitis E virus and HIV. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and served on various review and advisory committees of the Government of India and the World Health Organisation (WHO).