Dr. Archana Sharma, Principal Staff Scientist at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland,  has been recently honoured with the highest civilian award for Indians living abroad conferred by the President, Government of India - the Pravasi Bhartiya Samman. Dr Sharma has worked at CERN experiments on R&D and commissioning of large-scale radiation detectors. She is the founder and Project Manager of CMS GEM Collaboration since 2008, bringing a new technology, GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier), for exploiting one of the most sensitive detectors with the highest discovery potential.