An International Scientist with the expertise of working on gaseous detectors with over 800 publications in over three decades, Dr Archana Sharma is a Senior Staff Scientist at CERN, Switzerland. Dr Sharma actively facilitates knowledge exchange and capacity building in the science and technology sector exploiting her mandate in the International Committee and the Career Committees of the famous CMS experiment at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). To encourage research amongst the underprivileged, Dr Archana also runs an NGO called Life Lab Education and Research Foundation with the primary objective to create partnerships with educational institutions.