Samir Kumar Brahmachari (born 1 January 1952) is an Indian biophysicist and Former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Former Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India. He is the Founder Director of Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi and the Chief Mentor of Open Source for Drug Discovery (OSDD)Project. He is the recipient of J.C Bose Fellowship Award, DST (2012). In addition, he is one of the featured researchers in the India Cancer Research Database developed by Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB), Bangalore with support from the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (Hons), University of Calcutta.
Master of Science in Chemistry (Specialisation, Physical Chemistry), University of Calcutta
Ph.D, Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Post Doctoral Research, French Govt. Fellowship, Institute de Recherche en Biologie Moleculaire, CNRS, University of Paris VIII.
Research Associate, Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Chairman, West Bengal Education Commission.
Chief Mentor Health Technology Innovation, Indian Centre for Social Transformation, Bangalore
Scholar-in-Residence, IIT Jodhpur.
Lecturer/ Assistant/Associate Professor, Molecular Biophysics Unit and Associated Faculty, Centre for Genetic Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Professor, Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Director, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi.
Adjunct Professor, Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune, Pune.
Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi.
Academy Professor, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi
J.C. Bose National Fellow.
The Erudite Scholar, Scholar-in-Residence Programme, Govt. of Kerala.
GNR-Fellow, Open Source Pharma Foundation, Bangalore.