Shubha Tole obtained her BSc from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai (1987), an MSc (1991) and PhD (1994) from Caltech, USA. She was a postdoc at the University of Chicago, and then joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India as a faculty member in 1999.

Tole has been awarded the Infosys prize for Life Sciences (2014), the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award (2010); the Research Award for Innovation in Neurosciences (RAIN) by the Society for Neuroscience (2008), and a Wellcome Trust Senior International Fellowship (1999). She is a fellow of all three Indian scientific academies (INSA, IAS, NAS).