Krishna Chattopadhyay, PhD

Dr. Krishna Chattopadhyay is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Xavier School of Engineering and Technology, St. Xavier's University, Kolkata. She joined the University in July 2026. She completed her M.Sc. degree in Chemistry with a specialisation in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Burdwan in 2012, and qualified the NET, GATE, and SET examinations in the same year. She was awarded PhD in Chemistry from IIT Kharagpur in 2017. Following her doctoral studies, she joined IACS, Kolkata, as a Postdoctoral Fellow under the SERB-NPDF scheme. Subsequently, she worked as a Women Scientist (DST WOS-A) at the University of Calcutta. Her research interests primarily focus on inorganic materials chemistry. She has more than six years of teaching experience and over fourteen years of research experience.