High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sharada Srinivasan, Associate Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India, works in the field of inter-disciplinary scientific studies in art, archaeology, archaeometallurgy and culture and is also an acclaimed exponent of classical Bharata Natyam dance. She has a PhD. in Archaeometallurgy from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (1996) on the theme of `Archaeometallugical and art historical studies on South Indian metal icons`. Dr Sharada Srinivasan is a Lead Investigator on a prestigious UKIERI grant of British Council with Exeter University`s Dr Gill Juleff and Prof Ranganathan on the project `Pioneering metallurgy: origins of steel making in the southern Indian subcontinent`.