Archana Sharma is an Indian physicist and senior scientist at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. She is the only Indian scientist at CERN who was involved in the discovery of the Higgs boson particle in 2012. Her research focuses on high energy physics, which explores the origins of the known universe and its component parts. She is internationally recognized for her work in instrumentation and gaseous detectors, specifically for her pioneering work on micro-pattern gaseous detectors.