Harshini Mukundan is an Indian-American microbiologist. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[1]
She grew up in India.[2] Mukundan received her Bachelor's of Science Degree in Microbiology from the University of Delhi in 1995.[3] In 1997, she earned in Master's Degree in Microbiology from Barkatullah University and then went on to complete her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.[3]
From 2006, she worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory.[3] Her work focuses on developing tools for detecting infectious diseases.[4]