Neha Vermani is a historian of early modern South Asia, particularly the Mughal empire and its entanglements with the wider Persianate and Indian Ocean worlds. Her research focuses on the intersections between the history of food practices, material culture, and science, and explores the themes of self-fashioning, affect, and production of knowledge and artefacts. Her work has appeared in a number of peer-reviewed journals, edited book volumes, magazines, and newspapers. She received her PhD from the University of London, followed by a Mellon Foundation funded postdoctoral fellowship at Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. & the British Academy funded postdoctoral Newton international fellowship at the University of Sheffield, UK. Neha is currently an honorary fellow at the University of Sheffield and Durham University, UK.