Gautam Basu is a Biophysicist and a former Professor and Chairman of the Biophysics Department at Bose Institute, Kolkata, where he served as the Dean (Students’ Affairs) and the Professor-in-charge of the J C Bose Museum. He was educated at Presidency College (Kolkata), IIT Kanpur and Cornell University (USA) and spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at Kyoto University before joining Bose Institute. His core research interest is in Computational and Structural Biology. Beyond scientific research, he is actively involved in science communication and has interest in History of Science. Currently he is an Adjunct Professor at IISER Kolkata and University of Calcutta, and a Visiting Professor at NIPER Kolkata.
