Stephy Jose, a postdoctoral researcher at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Hyderabad, studied hydrodynamics and fluctuations in models of active particle motion during her PhD. In this article, she shares her journey of securing the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship and navigating the challenges of transitioning from PhD to postdoc.

Madhurima Kahali, marketing team head at Taylor & Francis Group, talks about her experience transitioning from academia to the publishing industry. In this '10 Women, 10 Questions' interview, Kahali discusses her career trajectory, starting from being an editor at a leading global publisher to becoming the head of a marketing team.

Dhananjay Huilgol, a Senior Research Associate at Duke University, United States of America (USA), studied the progenitor basis of neuronal diversification in the mammalian brain during his postdoctoral training. In this article, he shares his story of the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) Young Investigator Grant.

Purnati Khuntia is a postdoctoral fellow at Tamal Das’ lab, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Hyderabad. Her research focuses on hair follicle morphogenesis in mouse skin epithelium. She has recently been awarded the 2024 Rowland Fellowship by the Rowland Institute at Harvard. In this article, she shares her story of securing the Rowland Fellowship.

In this twelfth article, as part of community voices for the international Grants Awareness Program (iGAP), Debabrata Dutta shares his success story and the experience with securing the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) by Horizon Europe for his project WHEAT-Doctor at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK.