Multiple national award winner, Dr Gita Pendharkar has 26 years of lecturing experience (Australia, India and Africa) and is currently working as a Senior Educator & Project Lead for "Women in STEM” at the School of Vocational Engineering Health & Science, RMIT and an adjunct researcher at Monash University, Melbourne. She has established interdisciplinary research collaborations locally and overseas and have contributed to a wide-range of journal, conference papers and book chapters. Gita has received number of grants for teaching & learning & is a reviewer of journals in biomedical engineering. She currently collaborates with staff at IIT-Bombay, India for PhD research supervision.