Shreyasi joined UMBC as a Chemistry Ph.D. Graduate student in Fall 2018, and officially joined the lab in January 2019 after completing her lab rotations. Her research interest currently focuses on synthesis of 2D nanosheets and their further surface modifications for various applications relevant to human health and the environment. Shreyasi was born and brought up in West Bengal, India. She completed her B.Sc. Chemistry Honors (2012-2015) from Presidency University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, and M.Sc. Chemistry (2015-2017) from University of Hyderabad, School of Chemistry, Hyderabad, Telengana, India.
In the summer of 2016, Shreyasi did a summer research program for 2 months funded jointly by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences (IAS-INSA-NASC) at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, India on Biophysical Chemistry. Her project was to study protein aggregation using mechanism of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET). She did her M.Sc. Dissertation on Bioinorganic Chemistry at University of Hyderabad. Her project was synthesis and characterization of 3,6,13,16-tetrapropylporphycene. After her M.Sc., she worked as a Research Project Assistant in a Bio-Inspired Polymeric Materials research lab at IIT Guwahati, Assam, India (October 2017 to May 2018) on synthesizing and characterizing superhydrophobic and superoleophobic mimicking materials via chemical modifications and coatings and studying their properties for various applications.
In addition to her work, Shreyasi is interested in music, elocution and reading different kinds of books.