Dr. Soumya Awasthi, a scholar specializing in terrorism, geopolitics, and international relations. Her doctoral research explores the impact of religious ideologies on the geopolitics of India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, supported by extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan and Deoband, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. She holds an MPhil focused on India’s civil-military relations and defense procurements.

She is the author of: Compendium on Terror Groups

Tracing the Journey of India's Defence Budget

India's Nuclear Titans: Biographical Tales.

Additionally, her upcoming book, Diverse Narratives and Shared Beliefs: Classical to Hybrid Deoband Islam in South Asia, is set to be published by Routledge.

At present, she is a Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Delhi, where her work encompasses tech-driven terrorism, de-radicalization strategies, and security policy analysis, solidifying her position as a key voice in global security discourse.