Prof. Shibani Khanra Jha currently serves as the Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani. She completed her PhD and postgraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering and her B.E. in Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her research includes water, environment, and renewable energy,  more specifically multiphase flow in the subsurface, groundwater flow and contaminant transport, geothermal energy, and geophysical methods of electrical resistivity technique. At present, she is Faculty-In-Charge of the Teaching Learning Center (TLC), BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus. She also holds lifetime memberships of the Institute of Engineers India (IEI), the International Association for Water, Environment, Energy and Society (IAWEES), and Women in Geothermal (WING) by the Geothermal Resource Council. She serves as an external expert on the Research Advisory Committee for the Ph.D.