Dr Bipasha Chakraborty is a theoretical particle physicist and a lecturer in high energy physics at the University of Southampton. Chakraborty has made breakthrough contributions to the precision calculations of phenomenologically important quantities in the Standard Model of particle physics in search for a more fundamental theory beyond it. She is an eminent researcher in extreme-scale high-performance computation for high-energy physics, namely, in lattice QCD. Chakraborty has played a leading role in the UK to motivate research activities in a new fascinating interdisciplinary research direction – “Quantum Computation of Quantum Field Theories for High Energy Physics”.

Chakraborty has completed a PhD from the University of Glasgow with the prestigious Gilmour Scholarship, and thereafter, held postdoctoral positions in the Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in the USA, and in the University of Cambridge. Before joining Southampton, she was a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a Research Fellow at Clare Hall. At Cambridge, during this fellowship, Chakraborty co-led the very first quantum computation of a Quantum Field Theory with topological term, which received honorary mention and attracted further UKRI research grant. For her research, she has won the first UK & Ireland Joseph Fourier Prize in 2022 awarded by the STFC Hartree Centre and Atos. Chakraborty is an engaged STEM outreach advocate and a STEM Ambassador, and is the co-chair of the International Lattice QCD Diversity Committee.