Mahima Jaini is an independent marine biologist, currently based in Delhi. For the past few years she worked at Dakshin Foundation as a marine researcher in their biodiversity and resource monitoring programme, with projects in Lakshadweep and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Her past studies have focused on a range of questions regarding fisheries ecology, development, coral reef communities, zooplankton dynamics, and biological recruitment. Mahima has a bachelors in marine science and a masters in marine biology from the University of Maine, USA.