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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1954}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], India<br />
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| fields = [[Science Education]]<br />
| workplaces = [[HBCSE]], TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies<br />
| title = Professor (H), Centre Director<br />
| alma_mater = [[Fergusson College]], [[IIT Kanpur]], [[Pune University]]<br />
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'''Jayashree Ramadas''' (née Taskar) is an Indian educationist. She was the Centre Director (2011–2016) of [[Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education]] (HBCSE), a National Centre of the [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]] (TIFR) in [[Mumbai]], India.<ref name="hbcse">{{cite web | url=http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/people/academic/jayashree-ramadas | title=Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Faculty | publisher=Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education | accessdate=9 December 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205000354/http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/people/academic/jayashree-ramadas | archive-date=5 December 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref> In her capacity as a professor she teaches graduate courses related to cognition and science education. She is also a member of the [[IUPAP|International Union of Pure and Applied Physics]]<ref name="iupap">{{cite web | url=https://iupap.org/commissions/physics-education/members/ | title=International Union of Pure and Applied Physics – C14: MEMBERS | publisher=International Union of Pure and Applied Physics | accessdate=9 December 2014}}</ref> and [[International Committee on Physics Education]].<ref name="icpe">{{cite web | url=http://iupap-icpe.org/content/ICPE-members | title=International Committee on Physics Education – Members of the Commission | accessdate=9 December 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209202250/http://iupap-icpe.org/content/ICPE-members | archive-date=9 December 2014 | url-status=usurped }}</ref> Ramadas was appointed Dean, HBCSE, in November, 2008, and in June 2011, was appointed the Centre Director. She is currently Professor at the TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Hyderabad.<ref name="tifrh">{{cite web|title=Faculty – TIFR Hyderabad|url=https://www.tifrh.res.in/index.php/faculty/|website=tifrh.res.in|publisher=Tata Institute of Fundamental Research|accessdate=25 January 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Jayashree Ramadas (Taskar) was born in Bombay (now [[Mumbai]]) in 1954. Her father was a telecommunication engineer. Her early schooling was in St. Thomas' School, [[Delhi]], following which she studied for a year at American School, [[Baghdad]], and completed her schooling from St. Helena's School, [[Pune]]. She studied in [[Fergusson College]], Pune, and obtained her master's degree in Physics from [[IIT Kanpur]] in 1976.. She went on to do her doctoral studies in Science Education at HBCSE. Her PhD devree was awarded by [[Pune University]]. Hers was possibly the first thesis on Science Education in India.<ref name="iasinitiative">{{cite web|last1=Ramadas|first1=Jayashree|title=Building a new discipline|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/public/Resources/Initiatives/Women_in_Science/Contributors/jayashreeramdas.pdf|website=ias.ac.in|publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences|accessdate=4 February 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
For most of her career, Ramadas has been at HBCSE. She did a postdoctoral stint at the University of Leeds and was subsequently inducted as a member of the faculty at HBCSE. She became a full Professor in August 2007 and Dean in November 2008. In June 2011 she took over from H. C. Pradhan as the fourth Centre Director of HBCSE, being appointed for a period of five years. <br />
She also spent a year each at [[Tufts University]] and [[MIT]].<br />
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In January 2017, Ramadas moved to the TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Hyderabad.<br />
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==Award/scholarship==<br />
*1971–1981 National Science Talent Search Scholarship<br />
*2011 [[TWAS]] Regional Office Prize for "Development of Scientific Educational Material"<ref name="award">{{cite web | url=https://twas.org/article/twas-regional-prizes-2011 | title=TWAS Regional Prizes 2011 | accessdate=9 December 2014}}</ref><br />
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