She is a contributor to the People's Archive of Rural India and a senior editor with Scientific American.
After obtaining a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago—supervised by Yoichiro Nambu[3]—she began post-doctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
[7] She received a Guggenheim fellowship to complete her first book, entitled The Land of Naked People (2003).
[6][8][9] In her second book, entitled Churchill's Secret War (2010), Mukerjee documents the role played by the policies, as well as the racial and political worldview, of the war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his trusted friend and advisor, Frederick Lindemann, in the death and devastation caused by the Bengal famine of 1943 and the partition of India.
[10] During 2011, Mukerjee was living in Germany with her husband, who teaches physics at Frankfurt University, and their son.