Aditi Sen De[6] was born in Kolkata, India to Lakshmi Dey and Ajit Kumar Dey. She did her schooling at Sarada Ashrama Balika Bidyalaya, Kolkata, and completed her higher secondary from Sakhawat Memorial Govt. Girls High School, Kolkata in 1992. She joined Bethune College, University of Calcutta to obtain a Bachelor of Science with honours in Mathematics. Subsequently, she joined the Applied Mathematics department of the Rajabazar Science College, University of Calcutta. She received her master's degree in 1997, and after a short period of research[7][8] work in India, moved to Gdańsk, Poland to work with Marek Żukowski at the University of Gdańsk, where she received her PhD in January 2004.[citation needed]
Upon returning to India in 2008, she joined the School of Physical[10] Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University as an Assistant Professor in Physics, before moving to Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad in 2009, where she is currently a Professor in Physics. She has published more than 100 research articles[11] in peer-reviewed journals.
Aditi Sen De started her research in the field of quantum information theory during her postgraduate studies in Kolkata and obtained her doctorate in 2004 at the University of Gdańsk. In collaboration with Marek Żukowski, Ryszard Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, Michał Horodecki and Ujjwal Sen, she worked on entanglement theory, quantum cryptography and quantum communication.[citation needed]
In January 2022, she was elected to Indian Academy of Sciences. She was elected member of Indian National Science Academy in October 2022. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded her the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2018. She is the first woman recipient of this Prize in the Physical Science category.
In 2012, she won the Buti Foundation Award. She has also received the Ramón y Cajal fellowship in Spain and the Humboldt Research Fellowship given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.
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