Dr. Chattopadhyay has been working for 27 years on research and outreach with a special focus on polar studies, disaster management, climate change and biodiversity. She is the founder Editor of an ISSN and RNI accredited Geography and You (G’nY), a journo-mag being published since 2001. Apart from completing 150 issues of the journo-mag, (now a part of the India Citation Index), She has been involved in various research and outreach programmes and has co-authored 2 books namely Climate Change and The White World and Science and Geopolitics of The White World : Arctic- Antarctic-Himalaya published by Springer along with six other books on varied topics. She is the president of LIGHTS under which PARI functions. She has undertaken several questionnaire based study reports as principal investigator. She has deep interest in polar studies and policy and have been organizing Science & Geopolitics of Himalaya-Arctic-Antarctic conference since 2011 for policy and advocacy of the three poles. She is regularly writes on polar issues in the Indian media with renowned newspapers like the financial Express carrying her articles. She was recently honored with “Business Excellence and Innovative Best Practices Academia Awards-2019″ by New Delhi Institute of Management.