Namrata Misra PhD received a M.Sc. degree in Bioinformatics from IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India, and a Ph.D. degree in Biological Science from AcSIR - Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research, CSIR-IMMT. She also received National Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, KIIT University. She is also the Head Bio innovations at KIIT Technology Business Incubator, among other key positions.

Her research focus is on study of vital metabolic pathways and in-depth sequence-structural analysis of underpinning enzymes and also vaccine development using computational approach. She has also developed several cutting-edge computations tools, databases and webservers. She has authored or coauthored more than 30 international journal publications, and book chapters. She is the principal Investigator of a grant examining the metabolic pathways of algae using system biology approach for biofuel production. She has received the prestigious Odisha Young Scientist Award-2019 by Science and Technology Department of Government of Odisha and also the Best Researcher Award for 2012 at CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar. Dr. Misra has led a number of workshops and training programs on innovation and entrepreneurship across several Institutes. She regularly mentors to students, startups and many young academicians to facilitate the translation of research discovery from lab to market and product development in healthcare sector.

She has also visited to University of Edinburgh -UK under the Training-SinnoLABs Managers program in 2018 under the EU Erasmus Mundus Program. Also, she was selected to attend the ENPRENDIA Training of trainers and management meeting in Santiago de Compostela, Spain in January 2020.