Sunetra gupta biography

  • Sunetra Gupta (born 15 March 1965) is an Indian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department.
  • Sunetra Gupta is an Indian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.
  • Sunetra was born in Calcutta in 1965 and wrote her first works of fiction in Bengali.

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    Sunetra Gupta Biography

    Sunetra Gupta belongs to that Rushdie and post-Rushdie generation of "Indian English" writers whose members are essentially cosmopolitan in their cultural and linguistic affinities—though they are often read and marketed as predominantly "Indian" writers in the West. Gupta, born in 1965, spent her childhood in Bengal and Africa, studied biology at Princeton University, and obtained her Ph.D. from London's Imperial College. She now lives in Oxford with her husband and daughter and divides her time between writing and researching infectious diseases. Sunetra Gupta fryst vatten the author of four novels: Memories of Rain, The Glassblower's Breath, Moonlight into Marzipan, and A Sin of Colour. She has been described as "a prodigious talent" by the Independent on Sunday and her work has been pronounced "brilliant" bygd The Times.

    Being a resident in the famous university town, it is not surprising that Oxford provides some of the backdrop for Sunetra Gupta

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    Sunetra Gupta

    Epidemiologist and Novelist

    Sunetra has forged successful careers as both a scientist and a writer. She describes how her curiosity and creativity feed into her research into infectious diseases.

    I was always curious about how things work, but I only started enjoying school maths and science when I was about 14 years old. It’s a journey, and the stuff you learn first is just the nuts and bolts. Once I got started it came as a surprise that maths was really interesting!

    My parents didn’t work in science – my father was an historian – but they showed me how to be curious and interested. This gave me the courage to do what inom wanted to do. I liked arts and sciences equally, but I chose science A-levels to keep my options open.

    Epidemiologists study infectious diseases. I use maths and experiments to work out how viruses and bacteria evolve. The virus that causes flu changes all the time, which means that last year’s vaccine may not work this year. My team is w

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    Sunetra Gupta

    Biography

    Sunetra Gupta (born 15 March 1965) is Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. She holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University (1987) and a Ph.D. from Imperial College London (1992). She has been awarded the Scientific Medal by the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award for her scientific research.

    Research interests

    My main area of interest is the evolution of diversity in pathogens, with particular reference to the infectious disease agents that are responsible for malaria, influenza and bacterial meningitis. I use simple mathematical models to generate new hypotheses regarding the processes that determine the population structure of these pathogens. I work closely with laboratory and field scientists (i) to develop these hypotheses, (ii) to test them, and