Dr. Bidisha Sengupta earned her B.S. in Chemistry with Honors from Bethune College, University of Calcutta, in 1992, and her Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry in 2001. She completed postdoctoral research at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in India, Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, and Furman University in the United States. From 2011 to 2019, she served as a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at Tougaloo College, Mississippi, where she was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. She currently serves as a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas.Dr. Sengupta's research is interdisciplinary and focuses on biophysical chemistry, biomolecular and analytical spectroscopy, medicinal chemistry, natural products, and environmental biochemistry. Her research also includes microbial biofilm systems and the investigation of microbial interactions with environmental and chemical factors. She has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and has an H-index of 29. She is also actively involved in mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in scientific research.