B.Sc in Physics at Presidency College Calcutta

M. A. and D. Phil. in Physics at Oxford as India's second woman Rhodes scholar

Research associateships held in IBM New York and the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge

Currently Professor in Theoretical Physics at the S.N. Bose National Centre , Calcutta.

On Editorial Board of Granular Matter and CHAOS.

Awarded the Stree Shakti award for the Woman Scientist of the year 2004.

Elected as Radcliffe Fellow to Harvard in 2006-7.

Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (2007).

Research interests

 

My current research is focused on complexity in natural as well as intelligent systems. So far as natural systems are concerned: I've specialised in granular physics for a number of years, with an emphasis on their behaviour near jamming. I've also worked on nonlinear dynamical systems, polymers, game-theoretic systems, as well as theoretical models of black-hole accretion. More recently, I have become interested in cognitive systems, with some areas of interest being expectancy in speech and music, network models of the brain, and models of strategic learning.