Dr. Chiranjit Mitra was born on 2nd December, 1990 to (late) Mr. Prabir Kumar Mitra & Mrs. Gayatri Mitra in Jamshedpur, India. He pursued his matriculation & intermediate studies at Narbheram Hansraj English School (N.H.E.S.), Jamshedpur, India.
He was offered the prestigious KVPY (Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana) fellowship in 2009 along with an opportunity of joining one of the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research. Subsequently, he moved to Kolkata, India where he pursued a 5 year B.S. - M.S. Dual Degree in Physical Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, India.
Thereafter, Dr. Mitra moved to Germany where he pursued a Ph.D. in Physics at the Humboldt University (HU) of Berlin, Germany while he worked as a doctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany. Following that, Dr. Mitra pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the Northwestern University (NU), USA.
Since July 2019, Dr. Mitra works at Ernst & Young (EY) where he is presently a Manager (Data Science).