Dr Mamta Sharma is Cluster Leader/Principal Scientist - Precision Phenotyping for Biotic and Abiotic Stresses and Nutrition at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Topics (ICRISAT) based in Hyderabad, India. With a PhD in Plant Pathology, Dr Sharma has 20+ years of research experience in devising strategies to manage economically important diseases in legumes. She has delivered many research projects on host-plant resistance, epidemiology, integrated management of pest/diseases related to chickpea and pigeonpea with a significant contribution in disease diagnostics, standardizing phenotyping protocols, disease resistant donors, pathogen virulence profiling etc. She is instrumental in establishing multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary “Center of Excellence on climate change research for plant protection” as well as currently leading phenotypic characterization for five important diseases in chickpea mission project of Govt of India. She has a strong national and international collaborative network on legumes and contributed to the release of >30 disease resistant varieties in chickpea and pigeonpea and capacity building of NARS and stakeholders in Asia and Africa. Dr Sharma has published >150 research articles, book chapters, manuals on these topics and guided over 30 MSc and PhD students. She is having an honor to receive recognition for her team-based work such as Doreen Margaret Mashler Award, Women Scientist of the Year from India Today, Outstanding Partnership Award, Outstanding Scientific Article Awards, Promising Young Scientist, Fellow of various Phytopathological Societies etc