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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