Career
She works in the area of mathematical and computational biology and complex systems, especially spatiotemporal organization in biological systems She is also a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Sciences. She did her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Physics from Visva Bharati University and her The Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy in theoretical Biology from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
She worked as a scientist at the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad since 1983.
She has written many popular science articles in journals and magazines in both English and Bengali, and has co-authored National Council of Educational Research and Training science text books