Sharmistha Dey comes from Arambagh, West Bengal. She did her Schooling from Tirol High School followed by B.Sc. from Asutosh college, Calcutta University. Later she did her M.Sc. from Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar. In M.Sc. she did a project on “Measurement of Transport Properties of Proposed Dirac Semimetals APd3O4 (A= Sr, Ca). She has joined PhD in IIT Delhi under the supervision of Prof. Pankaj Srivastava and Prof. Santanu Ghosh in January,2020 working on broad topic of work is “Defect mediated Ferromagnetism in low dimensional semiconductors”.