10 Facts About Charusita Chakravarty

Charusita Chakravarty was an Indian academic and scientist.

Charusita Chakravarty was a professor of chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi since 1999.

Charusita Chakravarty was an Associate Member of the Centre for Computational Material Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore.

On 29 March 2016, Chakravarty passed after a long and arduous battle with breast cancer.

Charusita Chakravarty was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US on 5 May 1964 as the only daughter of Sukhamoy and Lalita Charusita Chakravarty.

Charusita Chakravarty was raised in Delhi, India and chose to give up her American citizenship in her twenties.

Charusita Chakravarty was selected as the National Science Talent Scholar and went on to clear the Joint Entrance Exam of the Indian Institutes of Technology.

Charusita Chakravarty did her BSc Chemistry program from St Stephen's College, University of Delhi.

Charusita Chakravarty then became a Post Doctoral Scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara, under Professor Horia Metiu.

Charusita Chakravarty did get an offer from IIT Kanpur, and then went on to accept a position in IIT Delhi's Department of Chemistry, where she continued to teach till her death.