Shobhana Narasimhan is an Indian academic who is Professor of Theoretical Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India.

While the nature of research of highly fundamental, the results have been applied to developing nanocatalysts for clean energy and designing magnetic materials for data storage .

[15] Narasimhan has a strong interest in innovative teaching methods and organized and participated in many interactive workshops in several countries such as China, Ethiopia, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Iran, USA and India.

[16] As part of the Quantum ESPRESSO group and the African School for Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESMA),[17] Narasimhan has taught solid state physics and density functional theory through workshops in Asia and Africa.

Some of these recommendations include having at least one woman member in every hiring, promotion and award committee, ensuring flexi-time for women and increasing days of maternity leave.