Dr. Gomathi Shridhar - is an Associate Professor and Head, Department of Chemistry, V.K. Krishna Menon College, Mumbai, India and has more than three decades of teaching organic chemistry. She has 12 research publications in National and International Journals and has contributed to chapters in edited books. She has accompanied the Indian team as a Mentor to the International Chemistry Olympiad and is a resource person for FIP programmes at the UGC-HRDC and other Universities.