Born at Amritsar, Punjab, Dr. Bindu Bambah did her schooling in Columbus Ohio , U.S.A and Chandigarh. She graduated from Panjab University , Chandigarh in Physics and participated in the National Science Foundation(U.S.A) Ross program in Mathematics as a counselor. She received her Ph.D in Theoretical Physics from The University of Chicago in 1983 under the guidance of the renowned physicist Prof. Y. Nambu. After doing post-doctoral work at the Intenational Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste ,she has worked at IISc Bangalore, Madras, Chandigarh and Hyderabad. She was also a Scientific Associate at The Centre for European Nuclear Research C.E.R.N Geneva. Dr. Bambah was awarded the UNESCO, ROSTCA Young Scientists Award for South Asia in 1991.

For her thesis , she worked on applying the theoretical ideas of strings and two-dimensional gauge theories to the practical problem of hadronization in jets at colliders. As a follow-up to this work, she became interested in hadronic multiplicity distributions and the breakdown of KNO scaling , which was seen at the CERN ISR in 1984 and predicted it from a fundamental dynamical theory. Since coming back to India , her aim in the next 6 years from 1986 -1992 was to get better understanding on the nature of the QCD vacuum and the physics of strongly interacting systems. In the field of "Multiplicity Distributions in High Energy Collisions", with Dr. M.V. Satyanarayana in Madras, she proposed a model of multiplicity distributions in high energy collisions based on squeezed coherent states. The idea was pioneered in two papers published in 1986 and 1988. Subsequently at Hyderabad, in 1990 a microscopic theory was worked out to complete the picture. She was a member of the International Advisory Committee for the series of conferences "International Conference on Squeezed states and Uncertainty principle". At CERN , in 1989, she had the opportunity to get hands on experience with analysis of data with the "QCD Generators at LEP" group which surveyed, compiled and developed all QCD related software that could be of interest for LEP physics studies. Her contribution was to intermittency studies and providing an interface to the heavy quark generator Tip-Top . Her work on theoretical Studies of the Quark Gluon Plasma, addressed the problem of thermalisation and stability of this plasma. The methods from dynamical systems theory have been use for establishing the process of equilibration in the formation of QGP. In particular the integrability of Yang-Mills theories with and without the addition of matter fields and inclusion of Chem-Simons secondary characteristic classes in odd dimensions,( relevant for high temperature QCD) was examined from a Painleve point of view. A new potential for quark bound states proposed by her and collaborators in 1990-1992 based on the string model including all the quantum luctuations is now called the BDKS(Bambah, Dharamvir, Kaur, Sharma) potential which reproduced energy level inequalities in Quarkonia data, which other models were unable to .

From 1995 -2002 she developed new coherent states in quantum optics, Isospin squeezed states and the representations and coherent states of polynomially deformed algebras. Since 2002, she is working on the interrelations between Particle physics, Plasma Physics Fluid Dynamics, Quantum Optics and Cosmology. In this context, she has used the squeezed state formalism for constructing models of such diverse phenomena as the Disoriented Chiral Condensate and Baryon Asymmetry in the early universe. She, along with her collaborators, has also developed formalism to investigate the dynamics of a relativistic hot fluid with a non-Abelian charges in terms of a model which unifies the Yang Mills field with the low field strength tensor. This formalism has been used to investigate topological fluid field configurations and to generalize the Ray-Chaudhuri equation for hot gravitating non Abelian fluids. These days she is interested in the phenomenon of quantum entanglement in the process of the emission of Hawking radiation from black holes. Currently, she is also working on Majorana Neutrinos and neutrino mixing and also on thermo- field dynamics

In addition to her scientific contributions Dr. Bambah has written articles and given seminars to Women's Study groups both in India and abroad to devise methods of inducting and training women to assume leadership roles in the physical sciences. A published work on this topic is Women in Physical Sciences- From Followers to Leaders Monograph on Women in Science, ISCA publications. Prof. Bambah has also started undergraduate courses on scientific methodology and given lectures to school students on the importance of scientific thinking in all spheres of life. She is also a joint faculty in the Centre for Women's studies.