A Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Madhavi Indraganti is a passionate academic, and an architect. She is an Associate Professor at the Architecture and Urban Planning Department of the College of Engineering, Qatar University (QU) since Fall of 2017. Before joining QU, she was an Associate Professor at Prince Sultan University (PSU), Saudi Arabia.

Madhavi won two internationally competitive post-doctoral fellowships: The Fulbright Fellowship and the Japan Society for Promotion of Science Post-doctoral Fellowship. With these, she conducted post-doctoral research at the University of California Berkeley, and at The University of Tokyo, Japan.

A paper she co-authored won the Best-Paper Award for the year 2018 from Building and Environment, one of the best in discipline journals. With 1948 citations, a Google Scholar index of 22 and a Scopus index of 21,  She was also given the ‘Outstanding Researcher Award’ by PSU. She authored more than 48 Scopus-cited publications.

She taught extensively in India, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar taking a wide array of classes in Architecture and Interior design departments for more than 26 years in accredited programs.

She was placed in the top one percentile in the All-India Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering. Dr. Indraganti did M.Tech. in Building Science and Construction Management from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She obtained a 5-year professional B.Arch degree and PhD in Architecture from Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University, Hyderabad, India.

Investigations into the inseparable meshes of architecture, environment and sustainability interest her the most. An expert crocheter, Madhavi de-stresses with crochet and sewing.