Professor Sharada Srinivasan is a Professor in the National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISc Campus, Bengaluru. She obtained B. Tech. degree in Engineering Physics from IIT Bombay in 1987, Masters from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London with Distinction in 1989 and Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in 1996 in the Department of Conservation and Materials Science in Archaeometallurgy on a ODA and British Council Chevening Scholarship with laboratory work also at Oxford Research Laboratory for Art and Archaeology.