Background
Datta, Swapan Kumar was born on January 28, 1953 in Sirajganj, India.
Datta, Swapan Kumar was born on January 28, 1953 in Sirajganj, India.
Student, Presidency College, University Calcutta, India, 1972—1974. Doctor of Philosophy, 1980.
Lecturer botany Ramakrishna Mission V.C. College, 1976—1979. Lecturer, reader botany Visva-Bharati University, 1979—1989. Group leader, senior scientist Federal Institute of Technology (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ), Zurich, Switzerland, 1987—1993.
Senior scientist, plant biotechnologist International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Philippines, 1993—2005. Sir Rash Behari Ghosh professor University Calcutta, since 2005. German Academic Exchange Service fellow Institute for Resistance Genetics, Gruenbach, Germany, 1985—1986.
Fellow Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland, 1987. HarvestPlus Global Rice Crop leader International Rice Research Institute, 2003—2004.
Fellow: National Academy Agricultural Sciences.
Married Karabi Datta. 2 children.