Indumathi D.

Indumathi D. is an Indian particle physicist and a professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India. She has been an active member of the Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) project since its inception.

Early life and education Indumathi D. grew up in Chennai. Even though she was more passionate about playing Cricket, an injury led her to pursue a career in Physics. Following her postdoctoral appointments at the Physical Research Laboratory(PRL), Ahmedabad, the University of Dortmund in Germany; and then a brief stay at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, she was appointed a faculty member at the Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.

Along with other Indian scientists, Indumathi D. has been a proponent of Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) which is a project to build the first underground observatory to study atmospheric neutrinos in India. She has been the outreach coordinator and one of the spokespersons for the INO collaboration. She also coordinated a subgroup working on designing INO’s proposed main detector. Indumathi D. has written articles about the feasibility, status, and physical possibilities of the INO detectors.

Personal life Indumathi D. is married to a computer scientist, and they have two daughters, both of whom are adopted. She has pointed to additional domestic chores as being a reason for the attrition rate of women in science, a dynamic she said is absent in her family.