Joyanti Chutia

Joyanti Chutia is an Indian physicist. She was the among the first women who have headed scientific institutions in India when she became the Director of the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology in Guwahati, Assam the first major research institution in North East India. She is a fellow of National Academy of Sciences. She is an Emeritus Scientist at the Department of Science & Technology in the Government of India

Early life and education

Joyanti became involved in physics when she was a student in the Cotton College in Assam. After finishing her fellowship given by the Japanese Government in 1988 to work in the Plasma Laboratory of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Tokyo, in 2005 she became the Director of the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology.