Madhavi Latha Gali is a Professor of Civil Engineering and the Chair of the Centre for Sustainable Technologies at IISc. She did her Ph.D. from IIT Madras and joined IISc in 2003, after working as an Assistant Professor at IIT Guwahati for a year. Her current research interests include micro to macro of geomechanics, sustainable soil reinforcement, earthquake geotechnical engineering and rock engineering. She is the primary geotechnical consultant to the world’s highest railway bridge constructed across river Chenab in Jammu, India. She was the Editor-in-chief of the Indian Geotechnical Journal published by Springer during 2016-2022 and currently an Associate editor of ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Geotextiles and Geomembranes and International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering. She is the first recipient of the Best Woman Researcher in Geotechnical Engineering award from the Indian Geotechnical Society. She has also received Prof. S. K. Chatterjee outstanding researcher award of IISc, Woman achiever award by Karnataka book of records and SERB POWER fellowship. She is listed in the top 75 women in STEAM of India.