Prof. Joyanti Chutia is the Former Director of The Institute of Advanced Study in Science & Technology and currently an Emeritus Scientist at Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India.

She is one of the founder scientists of the Institute and had been working for about 27 years in the institute where she set up the plasma physics laboratory and led a talented group of young scientists in this field of research. She served the institute in different capacities and subsequently hold the post of Directorship for seven years. During this tenure, the institution was taken over by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India in 2009 from the State Govt. of Assam. Prof. Chutia had been instrumental seeing through the progress of the initial years after it came to the fold of Govt. of India.

She completed 9 research projects sponsored by different Govt. departments, DST, DAE etc. She is still continuing her work on fuel cell and solar cell sponsored by MNRE, Govt. of India. Her research achievements are mainly on nonlinear phenomena of plasmas, plasma processing, nano-science, plasma processed biomaterials, fuel cell etc. She has a total of 139 research publications to her credit (83 in international journals). Prof. Chutia is a prolific writer and so far 20 books written by her have been published. She has guided 15 Ph. D. students, and currently 4 more Ph. D. students are working with her.

She was awarded 10 regional and 1 national award for her original research work and popular science writing. She is a fellow of National Academy of Sciences since 2005. Prof. Chuta was visiting scientist in ISAS Japan, Kiel University, Germany, Plasma Lab UCLA, USA and invited to deliver lectures in many international and national conferences.