Shoba Sivasankar (Malayalam: ശോഭ ശിവശങ്കർ) is a Geneticist who leads the Plant Breeding and Genetics group of both the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

[1] Sivasankar leads the Plant Breeding and Genetics group at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Seibersdorf in Austria.

[2] Achieving sustainable cultivation of grain legumes was published in 2018 in two volumes and Sivasankar was the lead author.

[4] In 2021 she was the lead author of Mutation Breeding, Genetic Diversity and Crop Adaptation to Climate Change which she created with Thomas Henry Noel Ellis, Ljupcho Jankuloski and Ivan Ingelbrecht.

[6] Sivasanker received seeds at the IAEA's research facility in June 2023 that had been irradiated on the International Space Station.