[11] Sengupta was born into a Baidya Brahmin family in Glasgow, Scotland before emigrating to New York where she was raised thereafter.
From as young as age six, Sengupta admits being hooked on Star Trek character Spock, and his adventures on board a 23rd-century starship.
[2] CAL is a facility for the study of ultra-cold quantum gases in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station (ISS).
It will enable research in a temperature regime and force free[clarification needed] environment that is inaccessible to terrestrial laboratories.
In the microgravity environment, up to 20 second long interaction times and as low as 1 picokelvin temperatures are achievable, unlocking the potential to observe new quantum phenomena.