Dr. Gulshanara Shaikh retired as Vice-principal (Academics) and Associate Professor from the Department of Chemistry of St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Mumbai, India, after 32 years of teaching Organic Chemistry at the undergraduate as well as postgraduate level. She has been a visiting faculty at Institute of Chemical Technology. She has 4 research publications in national and international journals; and is coauthor in one book. She has accompanied the Indian team as Mentor to the International Chemistry Olympiad in 2023. She is a life member of the Association of Chemistry Teachers. She is also associated with HBCSE since 2017 to date, as a visiting faculty where she has had the opportunity to be part of the Chemistry team that is continuously striving to enhance chemistry laboratory education both with students and teachers and developing innovative instruction material.