Dr. Mallika Chatterjee is Assistant Professor at the Amity Institute of Neuropsychology and Neurosciences, Amity University, NOIDA. Her lab focuses on identifying molecular mechanisms underlying various neurodevelopmental phenomena and disorders, including autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia.

Dr. Chatterjee completed her B.Sc. in human physiology from Presidency College, Kolkata, her M.Sc. in genetics from Calcutta University, Kolkata, and her Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the University of Connecticut Health Center (UConn Health), USA. During her Ph.D., she explored the genetic mechanisms underlying the development of the mouse thalamus - a sensory relay center in the brain. As a Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance Early Career Fellow (2013) at TIFR, she gained experience on in-vitro culture systems in addition to utilizing her in vivo expertise in determining signaling factor roles in forebrain development. Dr. Chatterjee joined Amity University in 2018. She has been developing a zebrafish facility there to understand neurodevelopment combining neurobehavioral, biochemical, and histological techniques. She has received Young Scientist awards from the Society for Neurochemistry, India and the Singapore Neuroscience Association. She has a keen interest in neuroscience outreach and has held brain awareness sessions on depression in Delhi-NCR schools, funded by an IBRO-DANA grant.

During her Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence fellowship project, Dr. Chatterjee is utilizing her expertise on zebrafish tracking to develop a high-throughput neurobehavior imaging facility in India. Specifically, her project is working to identify carbohydrate roles in neurobehavior to potentiate further studies for the amelioration of various neurodevelopmental disorders. She is also involved in teaching related graduate courses at Brown University.