Sunetra Gupta is a novelist, and professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford with an interest in infectious disease agents that are responsible for malaria, HIV, influenza and bacterial meningitis. She has been awarded the Scientific Medal by the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award for her scientific research. Sunetra Gupta sits on the European Advisory Board of Princeton University Press and her fiction works include So Good in Black and A Sin of Colour.