Garga Chaterjee
Early life: -[edit]
Dr Garga Chaterjee was born in Kolkata (calcutta) in a middle-class Bengali family. He, then went to Banagram High School. In 1997, he passed West Bengal Secondary School examinations. He passed and got 14th rank in West Bengal higher secondary examination in 1999. He later appeared for West Bengal Joint Entrance examination (WBJEE). He scored very well in It and ranked 2nd in West Bengal which bagged him an admission in the University of Calcutta.
Education: -[edit]
Dr. Garga Chatterjee graduated in Medicine (MBBS) from Medical College, University of Calcutta (1999-2005). He received his degree of PhD from Harvard University (2006-2011) in the Cognition, Brain and Behavior track at the Vision Sciences Lab. This academic project was headed by Prof. Ken Nakayama. Post that, he did his post-doctoral preparing at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the lab of Prof. Pawan Sinha (2011-2014).
Family: -[edit]
He spent his entire childhood living in a small house with three of his family members. His mother is called Dipanwita Chatterjee while his wife is called Suranjana Mukherjee. He also had a sister Samaira Chatterjee and a brother Parag Bhusan Chatterjee. There is no more information available about his father.
Career:[edit]
He was a scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was held a very good speaker at the technology where he pursued his higher studies. He gave many speeches at MIT as well as other prestigious universities. He was involved in many political dramas at places where he was associated with drama clubs and societies. He is also a visiting faculty at University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Research Affiliate at MIT and an Assistant Professor at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (calcutta). He has also studied at a research level and received his graduation degree in cognition, brain and behavior of humans at Harvard University. Then slowly he came into shine when he firstly published his book on Indian objection to export of human tissue research in 2003 for British Medical Journal. Though he belonged to a very middle-class family, his continuous and strenuous efforts marked great milestones in his career. However, unfortunately he is not one of those renowned personalities that we hear about everyday around us.
Academic qualifications: -[edit]
1. 2011 - 2014: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. 2012 - 2013: Lecturer, Lesley University
3. 2011 - 2013: Teaching Fellow and Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
4. 2011: Postdoctoral Research scholar, Wesley College
5. 2011: Doctor of Philosophy – Psychology (Cognition, Brain and behavior) (PhD from Harvard University)
6. 2009: Master of Arts in Psychology - Cognition, Brain and Behaviors (M.A 2 from Harvard University - Degrees in all disciplines in the School of Arts and Sciences are named after the ‘Arts’)
7. 2005: Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery with First Class (M.B.B.S) from Medical College, University of Calcutta)
8. 1999: Ranked 2nd in the merit list of West Bengal Joint Entrance examination (West Bengal joint entrance examinations- WBJEE)
9. 1999: Passed Higher Secondary Examination
10. 1997: Passed West Bengal Secondary examination (*Ranked 14th in West Bengal).
Experience in teaching:[edit]
1. 2015: Introduction to Cognitive Science (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)..[1]
2. 2013: Invited faculty in the 1st Resonance Summer School in Neuroscience, to be held in New Delhi in June-July 2013 – a three-way collaboration between Harvard, MIT and IIT-Delhi.
3. 2013: Guest lecturer in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's course 9.675 titled “The Development of Object and Face recognition
4. 2012: Introduction to Psychology (as Lecturer in Lesley University).[2]
5. 2009-2012: Methods of Behavioral research (in different years with Prof. George Alvarez, Prof. Ken Nakayama, Dr. Justin Lehmiller and Dr. Christine Ma Kellams[3]).
6. 2009-2012: Senior Thesis Workshop leader – Harvard University program in Mind, Brain and Behavior.
7. 2008-2009: The Human Mind- Introduction to Mind, Brain and Behavior (in different years with Prof. Steven Pinker and Prof. Jason P Mitchell).
8. 2008-present: Non-Resident Tutor in Psychology (Lowell House and Winthrop House, Harvard University.
9. 2007: Psychopharmacology[4] – Your Brain on Drugs (with Prof. Scott E Lucas) .
Pre-PhD research experience:[edit]
Before settling on a choice of seeking after PhD at Harvard University in perception, cerebrum and conduct track he was included into numerous works with his accompanied teachers. Despite the fact that he didn't have a solid foundation in research field yet his strenuous endeavors made him sparkle like a brilliant sun. He did deal with certain themes which gave him a decent lift to seek after further PhD in his individual major.
- 2005: RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan with Dr.Manabu Tanifuji (Integrative Neural Systems Lab)
- 2004: New York University (NYU) with Dr.Denis G Pelli (Visual Perception Lab)
- 2002-2004: NCBS (TIFR), Bangalore with Dr.Sumantra (Shona) Chatterjee.
Books/ journals published by him:[edit]
Though he was not engaged in books by very young age but, his interests developed into it while he was pursuing his Bachelor’s in medical science from the University of Calcutta. He was very fascinated with them at a day while he was visiting the library of the university.
1. Chatterjee G. Indian objection to export of human tissue for research. British Medical Journal (2003).
2. Chatterjee G. Applied cognitive neuroscience – the pitfalls. Current Science (2005).
3. Wilmer JB, Germine L, Chabris CF, Chatterjee G, Williams M, Loken E, Nakayama K[5] & Duchaine B. Human face recognition ability is specific and highly heritable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2010).
4. Russell R, Chatterjee G & Nakayama K. Developmental prosopagnosia and super-recognition: no special role for surface reluctance processing. Neuropsychologia (2012).
5. Germine L, Nakayama K[6], Duchaine BC, Chabris CF, Chatterjee G & Wilmer JB. Is the Web as good as the lab? Comparable performance from Web and lab in cognitive/perceptual experiments. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
6. Wilmer JB, Chatterjee Geetal. Capturing specific abilities as a window into human individuality: example of face recognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology (2012).
7. Chatterjee G. & Nakayama K. Normal facial age and gender perception in developmental prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuro psychology (2012) July.
8. Kalia A, Chatterjee G et al. Development of pattern vision following early and extended blindness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2014) Feb.
9. Ganesh S, Chatterjee G et al. Results of late surgical intervention in children with early-onset bilateral cataracts. British Journal of Ophthalmology (2014) Oct.
10. Mitra R, Vyas A, Chatterjee G & Chatterjee S. Chronic-stress induced modulation of different states of anxiety-like behaviour in female rats. Neuroscience Letters (2005).
11. Ahamed S, Chatterjee G, et al. Arsenic groundwater contamination and its health effects in the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) in upper and middle Ganga plain, India: A severe danger. Science of the Total Environment (2006), 370(2-3): 310-22.
12. DeGutis J, Chatterjee G & Nakayama K. Face gender recognition in developmental prosopagnosia: Evidence for holistic processing and use of configural information. Visual Cognition (2012)
13. Chakraborty N & Chatterjee G. Neural and behavioral correlates of face recognition in human infants. Current Indian Eye Research (2016).
Letters in journals / miscellaneous:[edit]
1. ” Co-ordination among institutions” in Current Science, 10 Aug, 2003
2. ” Organ trafficking in Punjab[7]” in Doctors’ Dialogue, Aug 2003
3. ” Crisis in arsenic news” in Current Science, 25 May, 2005
4. "Undergraduate summer research-a positive step forward in attracting youngsters to science research as a career" in Current Science, 25 May, 2002.
Two of his services in academics: -[edit]
1. 2017: Session Chair, Networks and Games conference[8], Indian statistical institute, Kolkata (calcutta).
2. 2016: Review Editor, Frontiers in Psychology.[9]
Honors and awards: -[edit]
- 2013: Indian National Science Academy INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship .
- 2010: 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception Merit Travel Award, Lausanne, Switzerland.[10]
- 2010: Asia-Pacific Conference of Vision Merit Travel Award, Taiwan.
- 2010: Nominated for the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Award for teaching excellence at Harvard University.
- 2010: Psycho physics Fund research grant from Harvard University .
- 2010: Graduate Society Fellowship, Harvard University .
- 2010: Mind, Brain and Behavior Inter faculty Initiative Research grant, Harvard University.
- 2010: Stimson Fund grant from Harvard University – twice in the same year.
- 2009: McMaster Fund research[11] travel grant from Harvard University .
- 2008: 31st European Conference on Visual Perception[12] Merit Travel Award, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 2008: McMaster Fund travel grant from Harvard University .
- 2008: Harvard South Asia Initiative Graduate Research grant.
- 2007: Harvard South Asia[13] Initiative Tata Research grant.
- 2007: Barbara R Ditmas bequest research grant from Harvard University.
- 2006: Stimson bequest research grant[14] from Harvard University.
- 2006: Debesh Kamal Scholarship for Overseas study[15] from Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, India.
- 2006: South Point High School Travel award for best alumni going to study abroad.
- 2006: University of Calcutta Maa Kali Sahay Scholarship for medical research.
- 2005: RIKEN Brain Science Institute International Summer Fellowship at RIKEN, BSI, Japan.
- 2005: International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Travel grant.
- 2004: New York University (NYU), Centre for Neural Science, Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Fellowship.[16]
- 2004: John Merck Summer Institute Fellowship[17] on Developmental Brain Disabilities at Princeton University.
- 2004 & 2003: Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) Short Term Research Studentship in Neurology .
- 2004,2003 & 2002: National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) Undergraduate Research Studentship[18]
- 2000: Dr.Nani Lal Pan Memorial Medal as Best Dissector of Medical College, Calcutta (1999-2000) .
- 1999: Ranked among top 25 students in India from Indian National Biology Olympiad (INBO)[19] .
- 1997: National Talent Scholarship (NTS) by Govt. of India for 8 successive years (1997-2005).
Universities where he was invited for the talk: -[edit]
- 2018: Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
- 2017: Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru[20]
- 2017: Ahmadabad University, Ahmadabad, India
- 2017: Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India[21]
- 2017: North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- 2017: Indian Statistical Institute, Tezpur
- 2016: Manipur University, Imphal, India
- 2016: University of Dhaka, Bangladesh[22]
- 2016: Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, India
- 2016: Gonoswasthyo Shomajvittik Medical College, Savar, Bangladesh
- 2016: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.
- 2015: Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Chennai, India
- 2015: Modern Academy for Continuing Education, Kolkata, India[23]
- 2014: Ashoka University, Haryana, India
- 2014: St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India
- 2012: Cognitive Science seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
- 2012: University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
- 2012: Jagannath University, Bangladesh[24]
- 2010: University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2010: Wellesley College, USA
- 2010: National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan[25]
- 2009: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
- 2008: University of Liege, Belgium[26]
- 2006: Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.isical.ac.in/. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ "Lesley University | Lesley University". lesley.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "Christine Ma-Kellams | University of La Verne, CA | Psychology Department". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "Psychopharmacology". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "Ken Nakayama - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "Ken Nakayama - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ Kumar, Sanjay (2003). "Police uncover large scale organ trafficking in Punjab". undefined. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "Home". GameNets 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "Frontiers in Psychology". www.frontiersin.org. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ Tourismus, Schweiz. "Lausanne". Switzerland Tourism. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "Research at McMaster University — Research @ McMaster". research.mcmaster.ca. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ olgaovsepyan (2019-06-04). "ECVP 2019 – European Conference on Visual Perception". DyViTo. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute". The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "lvpei". www.lvpei.org. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "Debesh Kamal Scholarship 2019 for Higher Studies, Application, Dates". Scholarships. 2019-03-09. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "Summer Undergraduate Research Program | School of Medicine Graduate Studies | University of Pittsburgh". somgrad.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "John Merck Scholars Program | Center for Brain Science". cbs.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "Home | NCBS". www.ncbs.res.in. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "How to prepare for the Indian Biology Olympiad". Biolympiads. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre". www.isibang.ac.in. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "Welcome to the official website of Jadavpur University". www.jaduniv.edu.in. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "University of Dhaka || the highest echelon of academic excellence". www.du.ac.bd. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "~: Welcome to Modern Academy of Continuing Education :~". macelifelonglearning.org. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "JAGANNATH UNIVERSITY". www.jnu.ac.bd. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "National Taiwan University". www.ntu.edu.tw. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ↑ "ULiege portal". www.uliege.be. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
1. https://www.isical.ac.in/~garga/labwebsite/?page_id=82
2. Journal: Cognitive neuroscientist’s approach to death. Ed: Makarand Paranjape (Samvad India Foundation)
3. https://www.dnaindia.com/authors/garga-chatterjee
4. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Garga_Chatterjee
5. https://www.outlookindia.com/author/garga-chatterjee/15491
6. https://hajarduari.wordpress.com- His own blog website
7. https://scroll.in/author/2717/>
8. Wilmer JB, Chatterjee Getal. Capturing specific abilities as a window into human individuality: example of face recognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology (2012)
9. Ganesh S, Chatterjee Getal. Results of late surgical intervention in children with early-onset bilateral cataracts. British Journal of Ophthalmology (2014) Oct; 98(10):1424-8.
10. Chakrabarty M, Chatterjee Getal. Hemispheric asymmetry in attention and its impact on our consciousness: A review with reference to altered consciousness in Right hemisphere damaged subjects. Journal of Consciousness Studies.
11. www.raiot.in/author/gargachatterjee/.
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