Pooja Khurana is a Career Development Manager, a Project Officer for the European Citizen Science (ECS) project and an Editorial Board Member at the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA). She is a trained Stem Cell Scientist and Developmental Biologist. She has worked across disciplines in scientifically diverse environments in India, Germany, Hungary and England, where she attained her PhD. in Biological Sciences (University of Southampton) and received the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship. Following postdoctoral research at the University of Hawaiʻi (USA) in 2022, she has volunteered for social causes including environmental sustainability at the Global Crisis Response (India) as an Outreach Coordinator; menstrual poverty at The Pad Project (U.S.A) as a Public Health Advisor; and a Founding Member of a virtual peer-support group, Therapy Thursday (U.S.A). She aspires to combine scientific vigour and public outreach skills with a quest to attain true inclusivity, social wellbeing and menstrual equity with a focus on public engagement.