Shashi Poddar is a highly experienced materials scientist and principal investigator at Euclid Techlabs LLC since May 2019, also serving as an NIST affiliate associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology since August 2022. Additional roles include being an associate at Cheeky Scientist and a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Previous experience includes postdoctoral research at Université catholique de Louvain and research fellow at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, focusing on organic molecular ferroelectrics and flexoelectricity in thin films. Shashi has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a Master's in Applied Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Calcutta.