Dr. Susmita Sarkar is Professor and former Head, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Calcutta and has been teaching at Post Graduate level since February 1990. Her field of research is Plasma Dynamics and Fractional Calculus. She has 63 research publications in reputed national and international journals. She has guided five students who have awarded Ph.D (Sc) degree and at present seven are registered.

Dr. Susmita Sarkar possesses uniformly good results from Madhyamik to M.Phil. She is National Scholar, NET qualified, received Jnanendra Bhusan Memorial Book Prize from Presidency College. She was TWAS Associate and ICTP regular Associate