Swagatika Sahoo is a Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. She graduated with her degree in Human Genetics, Biochemistry & Biotechnology at Andhra University in 2003. She received her Masters of Science (Medical Biochemistry) Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University in 2008. In 2014, she completed her PhD (Systems Biology) from the University of Iceland. She works in the fields of Research Areas such as Human metabolism, Systems biology, Constraint-based computational modeling, Metabolic diseases, Inherited metabolic disorders. She was awarded an Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Faculty award, 2015, in life science/ biomedical science from Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and technology, Government of India. Travel scholarship from society for the study of inborn errors of metabolism 2012, Birmingham, UK. Swagatika does research in mathematical modeling for human metabolic diseases and cancer. Their current project is ‘Constraint-based metabolic modeling for studying metabolic and neurological disorders.’