Rebecca Thombre is a London based Scientist with 19 years of experience in Microbiology and Molecular Biology. She has worked as a Scientist at Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, Washington, USA (2020-2021), Visiting Scientist at University of Kent, UK (2019-2021), and as an Assistant Professor in Microbiology at Modern College, Pune, India (2005-2019). She has a rich teaching, research, and clinical laboratory experience in Microbiology, Bacteriology, Mycology, Antimicrobial Resistance (Testing and handling Drug-resistant strains-MDR, XDR, PDR, MRSA, VRSA, HG2,3 strains, Cancer cell lines), and Extremophilic bacteria. She was the recipient of Academic excellence award and DFF-Eureka Forbes fellowship from University of Mumbai for First rank in the University for M.Sc. Microbiology. She pursued her Ph.D. in Microbiology from Agharkar Research Institute, an institute under Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and her research focused on characterization of the extremozyme cyclodextrin glycosyl transferase from alkaliphiles isolated from Lonar lake, a soda lake formed by a meteorite impact crater. She has received many postdoctoral grants/awards/fellowships and has travelled to the USA, Europe and Taiwan for research. She has received funding as the Principal Scientific Investigator for projects on Microbiology and Astrobiology funded by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) - SPPU Space Technology cell, UGC Govt. of India and Europlanet (European Union). She was involved in Clinical research with hospitals to isolate and characterize oral microorganisms from patients with special reference to Streptococcus species. She has isolated and reported more than 200 extremophilic microorganisms and representative organisms have been deposited in the National Culture Collection, Centers. She has published more than 50 articles including popular science articles, peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and Edited Special issues and books published by Frontiers Publishing group and Elsevier, USA.