Biography and academic profile
Dr. Shampa M Ghosh heads the Drosophila lab at KIIT. Her research focuses on evolutionary developmental biology. She received her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Adv Scientific Research Bangalore followed by postdoctoral training at Michigan State University USA. She previously headed KIIT-TBI branch of Bionivid Technology Pvt Ltd, and served as Visiting Faculty at NISER (2015-2017). She received the DST Women Scientist Fellowship and SERB Start up Research Grant. She was featured in the 365IndianWomeninSTEM series (2021) and TheLifeofScience calendar honouring 50 Indian women scientists (2022). She is an Executive Council member of Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists. She has published impactful papers in evolutionary biology and delivered invited talks at several conferences.
