Amrita Brajagopal Hazra, visiting professor at the Chemistry Laboratory

Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India - Visiting Professor 2022-23 - March 8 to April 5, 2023 - Inviting Professor: Jens Hasserodt Amrita Hazra completed her Bachelors and Masters degrees in chemistry at Jadavpur University, Calcutta and at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, respectively. She obtained a Ph.D. at Cornell University in Chemical Biology in 2010. This was followed by a postdoctoral stint in microbiology at the University of California, Berkley. She joined the IISER Pune in December 2015 and is currently an associate professor there. Her research interests lie in mechanistic enzymology and microbial genetics, and her lab explores vitamin biosynthesis and metabolism. Since the last several years, ENS de Lyon and IISER Pune have worked together collaboratively on many occasions, motivated by common goals and standards of excellence in science education and teaching and formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two institutes signed in 2016.