Bengaluru: As a girl in her tweens, Kshama Sharma cherished a quote by physicist Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize—‘Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less’.

Years later, Sharma has been awarded the ‘L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Young Talent France 2025’ honour and Curie’s saying has come back to her as she remembers her younger self navigating challenging domains in science.

“I realised this is how I am as a person. I don’t go for easy options… I really like challenging things, so I chose the field of solid state nuclear magnetic resonance,” she said, speaking to ThePrint over phone from France, narrating her journey from Ghaziabad to Université Claude Bernard where she is a postdo

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