Charusita Chakravarty

Ph.D. (1990, Cambridge), FASc, is a recipient of S S Bhatnagar Award, Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the DST, the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India, the B.M. Birla Science Award in Chemistry, and the INSA Medal for Young Scientists. She works in the areas of physical and theoretical chemistry, and chemical and computational physics.

An excerpt from the publication "Negotiating choices":
"As a child in an academic family, I always had a lot of books around and read extensively and fairly indiscriminately. As I grew older, some of this curiosity was channelised towards science, encouraged to some extent by a very good science teacher in primary school and our neighbours who were botanists. Overall, though, when I look back, I can see that the dominant influence in shaping my academic interests was that of my father. I do not remember that he ever paid any attention to homework or examination preparation but he had an enormous range of intellectual interests himself and, when he found the time, he was always interested and encouraging about whatever I might be reading or learning."