Annapurni Subramaniam is the director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore and works on areas like star clusters, stellar evolution and population in galaxies and Magellanic clouds. Subramaniam finished her schooling from Victoria College, Palakkad, in science. She did her PhD on the topic "Studies of star clusters and stellar evolution" from Indian Institute of Astrophysics in 1996. Subramaniam was a Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics from 1990 to 1996. She then became a Post Doctoral Fellow in 1998 at the institute and currently works as a professor and director of institute. She is an active member of the International Astronomical Union.
