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Dr. Chiranjeeb Dey passed M.Sc. in Zoology with specialization in Parasitology and Immunobiology from the University of Calcutta in 2001. He is recipient of national scholarship from CSIR-UGC, New Delhi in time of his doctoral thesis and awarded his Ph.D. degree in Zoology from the University of Calcutta in 2007 on the ultrastructure of an avian cestode tegument. Dr. Dey is recipient of Sudev Bhushan Ghosh Young Scientist award from the Zoological Society, Kolkata. He was a post-doctoral fellow in a CSIR project in the department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India. He has joined as an Assistant Professor in Zoology, Serampore College (affiliated to the University of Calcutta) in 2008 and continuing the service till date. Dr. Dey has published more than 20 research papers in peer reviewed national and international journals and some are in pipeline. In addition, he has in his credit few textbooks for undergraduate students in Zoology under the University of Calcutta. His Ph.D. thesis has also been published from Scholars Press, Germany in 2013. Apart from his research career, he also engaged in teaching Zoology in undergraduate and post-graduate course since 2002. Dr. Dey acted as examiner/ evaluator and guest faculty in different undergraduate colleges and universities in India. His research and teaching experiences reaches more than 14 years. His field of research interest is parasitology especially on helminths - their physiology, biochemistry, tegument biology (ultrastructural level), and ecology with respect to their host. Dr. Dey had collaboration in his research with a good number of institutes viz. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata; Rishi Bankim Chandra College, Naihati; Bose Institute, Kolkata; Department of Anatomy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi; Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow; Protozoology Division, School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata; National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata; USIC, Jadavpur University, Kolkata; Drug Research and Development Centre, Dum Dum, Kolkata; Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata; S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata; and West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Sciences, Kolkata. He has acted as regular reviewer in few international journals notably Journal Experimental Parasitology, Journal of Parasitic Diseases etc. Dr. Dey has been supervising post-graduate students' project/ dissertation works in the elective paper Parasitology and Immunobiology of the post-graduate course in Zoology in the Serampore College (affiliated to the University of Calcutta), Sikkim Manipal University and Netaji Subhas Open University. Also Dr. Dey supervising a few students in their Ph.D. work (one of them is the JRF under DST, Govt. of WB, India MRP). He is life member in the Zoological Society, Kolkata, Social Environmental and Biological Association (SEBA), and member in Academy of Biodiversity Conservation (ABC). Dr. Dey participated and presented his research papers in a good number of national and international level seminar and workshops. In the administrative domain, he has acted as the Head of the department of Zoology from 2010 to 2013, Co-ordinator in PG course in Zoology, Serampore College from 2014-2016, and presently acting as Chairperson (PGEC) till date.