Chitra Dutta

Chitra Dutta
Residence
Nationality Indian
Fields Bioinformatics, Computational Biology
Institutions Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
Alma mater Visva-Bharati University, Calcutta University

Chitra Dutta is an Indian physicist who works in bioinformatics and computational biology. She is Chief Scientist and Head of the Structural Biology & Bio-Informatics Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata.[1]

Education and career

Dutta studied Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics as an undergraduate and Physics as a Masters student from Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal. She received her Ph.D in Physics from Calcutta University in 1984 after which she joined the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology as a Scientist. In addition to her research she also teaches graduate courses at Calcutta University, Visva-Bharati and West Bengal University of Technology.[2]

Awards and honours

Chitra Dutta was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India in 1992.[3]

References

  1. "Structural Biology & Bio-Informatics Division". Indian Institute of Chemical Biology. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  2. "Dr. Chitra Dutta". StreeShakti. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  3. "Fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
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