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Vishwam Sankaran
Science and Technology Reporter
Vishwam Sankaran is an early career science and technology reporter based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, writing for The Independent since April, 2021. They are a recipient of the 2021 EurekAlert! Fellowships for International Science Reporters, and their works have been featured in outlets including The Next Web, The Wire Science, The Life of Science, ThePrint and The Weather Channel. Since they began a full-time career as a science journalist with The Press Trust of India (PTI) in 2019, Vishwam has covered extensively across domains of science and technology, including life science, artificial intelligence, climate change, and space missions. Vishwam is passionate about understanding emerging trends in all fields of science, technology, environment, as well as health.
