Gopika Indu is a research fellow at the HEAL Global Research Centre, University of Canberra, with expertise in climate change, air quality, and public health. She specializes in indoor air quality, particularly in rural households using biomass fuels, with expertise in pollutant characterisation and control technology development, a focus area of her PhD from IIT Madras. She has also worked on promoting solar energy adoption to enhance health, energy security, and air quality in rural Australia and South India. Currently, she leads a project aimed at implementing climate change adaptation strategies to improve resilience to wildfire smoke in Southeast Asia, with a particular emphasis on children’s health. Her research interests span air pollution, pollutant characterization, health impacts, clean energy systems, wildfire smoke, and sustainable public health solutions in the context of a changing climate.