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Udita is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Technology at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, from June, 2021. Before joining IIT (BHU), she was enjoying incredible weather and science at the Mechanical Engineering Department, IISc Bangalore as a Raman Fellow with Aloke Kumar lab (2019-2021). Prior to that, she had a short stint as a CNRS postdoctoral researcher at the AIMAN Films with Michael Baudoin (2018-2019). Her academic degrees are in Chemical Engineering, B. Tech. from Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, Nagpur followed by graduate studies (M. Tech. and Ph.D., 2013-18) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Udita is a self-proclaimed bibliophile and hopes to pen down a book one day while sipping coffee in a café nestled in the lap of the mighty Himalayas. She is also an avid shuttler.