Shyamasree did her graduation from Asutosh College, Kolkata and post graduation from Delhi School of Economics. Her research interests revolve around the area of sustainable development – environment, health and education.  

She has worked as a Junior Research Fellow in a project on ‘Revisiting Education for All’ supported by International Development Research Centre (IDRC) which was a field based quantitative study of the situation of schooling in rural North India. 

Shymasree is an M.Phil level SYLFF Fellow (2009-2010). Her research will analyse the role of forest as a carbon sink in the present context of global climate change. The world is now looking towards a sustainable solution to reduce carbon concentration in the atmosphere and in that context how the carbon capturing capacity of forest lands could be used sustainably becomes an issue of immense importance. Her work will investigate how a country can enter the global carbon market with its forest land as a carbon sink and hence take active part in carbon reduction. The study will examine the issue from the perspective of a developing country.  

Shyamasree spends her leisure hours reading books and watching movies.