Archana L. Mahakalkar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forensic Biology at the Government Institute of Forensic Science, Nagpur. She completed her M.Sc. in Zoology from the Government Vidarbha Institute of Science and Humanities in Amravati and her Ph.D. in 2007. She was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship to women candidates from UGC (2012-2015). She contributed to the development of ICT teaching materials for an undergraduate course in forensic science-CH-06, VIDHIK (Social Science-IV): Introduction to DNA fingerprinting Parts I, II, and III.