Dr. Debojyoti Chakraborty heads the RNA Biology Lab at CSIR - Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology where he currently holds a Principal Scientist position.

He completed his Master in Molecular Biology from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata. He then did his PhD from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics in Dresden under Frank Buchholz. Following a post-doctoral stint at the Medical Faculty in TU Dresden, he returned to India to set up his own lab at IGIB. Dr. Chakraborty has been awarded the CSIR Young Scientist Award (2020) and became one of the 30 EMBO Young Investigators (2020).

Besides his academic interests, Dr. Chakraborty is an acclaimed sitarist and has performed widely in India and abroad