Gita Mathur is a retired Associate Professor of Botany at Gargi College, University of Delhi, with nearly 40 years of teaching experience. A trained botanist, she loves to innovate teaching approaches in botany and to design experiments that can be performed with minimal and accessible resources. Besides teaching botany, she is deeply interested in environmental and science education. She has contributed towards developing several resource materials for teaching botany and science in general. She was awarded the Distinguished Teacher Award by the University of Delhi for Excellence in Teaching in 2009.