Pankaj Sekhsaria is Associate Professor, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA) and Associate Faculty, Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), IIT-Bombay, with research interests that lie at the intersection of technology, society, science, and the environment. He has a PhD in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Maastricht University, the Netherlands, where he worked on the ‘Cultures of Innovation’ in nanoscience and technology research in India. He is also a member of the environmental action group, Kalpavriksh, and author of The Last Wave (2014), Islands in Flux: The Andaman and Nicobar Story (2017, 2019), and most recently Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory (2019).