Chakravarty was selected as the National Science Talent Scholar and went on to clear the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).

[clarification needed] Charusita then became a Post Doctoral Scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara, under Professor Horia Metiu.

After a brief visit to India, she returned to Cambridge as a Gulbenkian junior research fellow in an independent post-Doctoral position.

[citation needed] Her fields of interest also included theoretical chemistry and chemical physics, the structure and dynamics of Liquids, water and hydration, nucleation and self-assembly.

[citation needed] A few of her co-written works include, Multiple Time-scale Behaviour of the Hydrogen Bond Network in Water (2004), Estimating the entropy of liquids from atom-atom radial distribution functions: silica, beryllium fluoride and water (2008), and Excess entropy scaling of transport properties in network-forming ionic melts (2011).