Dr Shekhar C. Mande is an Indian Structural and Computational Biologist. He did his M.Sc. in Physics from University of Nagpur and earned Ph.D degree in Molecular Biophysics from Indian Institute of Science. Following his PhD in 1991, he joined Prof. Wim G. J. Hol as Post-Doctoral Fellow at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands and in 1992 he joined University of Washington, Seattle as Senior fellow. He returned to India in 1995 to serve as Scientist in Institute of Microbial Technology. In 2001 he joined the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics as senior Staff Scientist. Dr Mande led the National Centre for Cell Science as its Director from 2011 to 2018. Since 2018 he is serving as the Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Govt of India. He has been serving many advisory committees including task forces of many S&T related departments of Govt of India. Dr Mande is a fellow of several professional bodies and has been conferred many awards and honors which includes Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India.