Surat Parvatam is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Predictive Human Model Systems hosted at the Atal Incubation Centre - CCMB. She completed her Ph.D. at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and freelanced as a science writer thereafter. Her works have appeared in Nature India, IndiaBioscience, The Wire, The Hindu, SciDev.net, Biotechniques, and Current Science among others.