Sid is a German Research Foundation/DFG Fellow at the Maxwell Centre and Centre for Misfolding Diseases, University of Cambridge. He is also a St John's College Research Associate by Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Researcher at the Leiden Institute of Physics and High Field Magnetic Lab, Nijmegen. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leiden Institute of Physics. During his postdoctoral stay at Utrecht in the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science OAR was conceived. He strongly believes on a quote from Walter Lewin 'Teachers who make Physics boring are criminals'. He understands this problem not only because he has encountered uncountable bad teachers but also for getting an opportunity to grow up in a school which was made with Tagore's philosophy of learning from the nature where hardly any competitive exams existed. He met some great teachers at school and some outstanding ones at the university level. These made him to love teaching instead of considering it as a daily boring task. He had supervised undergraduate theses which were considered to be the excellent at the university level. During his PhD, he had co-founded the 'Third Infinity: A Conference on Complex Systems' which was co-organised two times by him and continued to be a biennial conference organised by the next generation of PhD students in Goettingen, Germany. He was also a student representative for more than 450 PhD students which enables him to be a part of the board members of the graduate school. He published his first peer-reviewed article immediately after his undergraduate study. He has been reading and trying to understand Rabindranath since his unconventional Tagorian schooling at Patha Bhavan, which has been deeply motivated him to start Open Academic Research.

Abhilash is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Twente. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2016. During PhD, he worked as a teaching assistant for BTech, MTech and MSc students of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. In the past, he has also taught high school students for six years and this helped him identify the flaws of the current curriculum. He has given coaching for national level entrance exams (like JEE and AIEEE). He is an active member of the Optical Society of America's student chapter in Utrecht. He is also an active organizer of CREATE Gurukula project.

Jaishankar had a wild card entry in OAR. He is one of the key intellectual contributors in the OAR 2017-18. His primary and undergraduate schooling was together with Pritam Pai at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry. He went to Symbiosis for his masters in computer science. He has co-founded a startup business.

He is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Dong-Eui University in Busan, South Korea. He received his PhD and MTech from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India. He also has experience working as Assistant Professor in leading private colleges of Kerala, India. His other areas of interest are Cosmology, Historical Science and Religious Cosmology.

Alok is a doctoral candidate at Toshiba Stroke & Vascular Research Center, University at Buffalo, SUNY working in the area of Medical Imaging Physics, where he also earned a Masters in Medical Physics. At TSVRC he works on development and characterization of photon counting detectors for X-Ray Radiography, Fluoroscopy and Computed Tomography. Quantitative metrics for image quality assessment with various observer models and algorithms for 3D image reconstruction are also part of his research. Prior to this, Alok worked at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge working on observation of Magnetocaloric effect in hybrid Heusler alloys at room temperature for his Masters thesis. Alok also has been a TA at LSU for 2.5 years, instructed general physics courses for undergrads and served as a tutor. When not "re-searching", he does weight lifting, plays badminton, goes on treks or reads Saramago/Murakami (or the likes).

I am a PhD research scholar in the department of physics, Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology, Shibpur, West Bengal, India. My current research topic is 'Carbon nanotube based conducting polymer composites for device applications'. I feel very much privileged to get chance to be in touch with science everyday. So I enjoy my research and always keen to know and let know others about various scientific innovations and discoveries.

Anjana is a postdoctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. She received her PhD in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in July 2017. Her research work includes the structural and spectral studies of bioinspired coordination complexes. During PhD, she worked as a TA for BTech and MSc students for four semesters. As a researcher who is interested in academics, she feels that the science students lack fundamental understanding of the subject and expects that an initiative like OAR can bring a positive change.

Research Interests: My main interests lie in noncommutative spaces, which are encoded by the Gelfand Naimark theorem via C*-algebras. What I have worked upon is the notion of coarse geometry (or large scale geometry) for such spaces. The motivation came from Physics, where Quantum Mechanics approaches classical Physics at large scales, commonly termed as the classical limit. Notions about large scale geometry started with finitely generated groups, where choosing a different generating set do not change the large scale aspects of the word length metric though the metrics themselves are different. The generalization of large scale geometry to that for topological spaces was started mainly by John Roe and the language of coarse geometry is designed mainly to study the large scale aspects of the underlying topological structure. We encode coarse geometry for noncommutative spaces via unitizations of the given non-unital C*-algebra and my current research is mainly focussed at understanding the gap in our theory when restricted to commutative C*-algebras corresponding to some locally compact Hausdorff topological space.

Samit is an Assistant Professor at the University of Leeds. He has a PhD in Neurophysiology from the University of Cambridge. He has researched in Columbia University, University of Copenhagen, University of Manitoba, and Auroville Pondicherry.

OAR's end-goal of improving the scientific culture of natural curiousness and innovation amongst fellow Indians, while also bringing socio-economic benefits via citizen science is a common goal so better join forces to achieve that than to strive independently.

Master in Public Health [Specialization: Dental and Oral Health] and Bachelor in Dental Surgery from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore. Dr Pavithran has been working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, RMDCH, Annamalai University, India as well as Freelance Researcher and Biostatistician (Health Sciences).