Building minds and institutions.
Poulomi Bhadra is a criminologist and higher education leader with 12 years of experience across teaching, research, student mentorship and academic administration.
She is a forensic scientist turned criminologist whose work maps intersections between evidence, law, psychology, media, and philosophy. Her current body of work focuses on technology facilitated gender violence, cultural crimes and criminal psychology.
Drawing on her interdisciplinary training in STEM and the social sciences, Bhadra brings a evidence-led approach to complex challenges in higher education. Working closely with founding leadership, she contributes to the design of impactful degree programmes, the cultivation of holistic campus environments, and the development of rigorous, transdisciplinary academic ecosystems. She is driven by the belief that great outcomes follow good systems, and good systems need the right people, culture and ideas. She is open to working with people who are , exploring new ideas and building new ecosystems in academia.
Open to conversations on pursuing meaningful change, academic leadership, programme design and institution-building.
ABOUT
Poulomi Bhadra is currently at BITS Law School, BITS - Mumbai Campus where she leads programmes delivery, teaching strategy and learning experience, student welfare and wellbeing services, holistic development and overall partnership initiatives. She works closely with the founding leadership team to build a progressive, interdisciplinary and technology-led approach to legal education, with the vision of setting a new benchmark in the field.
Before BITS, she spent nearly a decade at O.P. Jindal Global University, where she taught forensic criminology and criminal psychology and served in various capacities as Assistant Dean & Assistant Director. Earlier, she worked on forensic entomology research at the Natural History Museum, London, in collaboration with the Metropolitan Police. She holds an M.Sc. in Forensic Science from King’s College London, postgraduate training in Criminology and Criminal Psychology from the University of Essex, and a degree in Biotechnology from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata.
An interdisciplinary academic and institution-builder, Bhadra has worked with leading higher education institutions, including O. P. Jindal Global University and BITS Law School at the BITS Pilani Mumbai campus, taking on diverse roles across teaching, research, and academic leadership. Her work spans the intersections of forensic science, criminology, psychology, law, media, and technology, with research interests encompassing scientific evidence in criminal law, cognitive bias in forensic examinations, gender-based violence, cyber victimisation, and crime in art and digital cultures.
Her research sits where forensic science, criminology, psychology, law and media meet. Her current work focuses on technology-facilitated gender violence, cultural crimes and criminal psychology. Her edited volume, Criminal Psychology and the Criminal Justice System in India and Beyond, received the Top Downloaded Book Award in Social Sciences (India) at the Springer Nature Books Summit 2026. Beyond academia, Bhadra's writing and research has appeared on the BBC, The Independent and The Wire and other outlets; she has also been invited to contribute expert commentary on documentaries. She is also involved with various non-governmental organizations and international research projects focused impact assessment, accessibility and capacity building, and awareness campaigns.
PUBLICATIONS
Bhadra has published widely in the areas of criminal psychology, criminal law and international justice issues. While she publishes mostly in English, some of her works have been translated to other languages such as German. Her last edited volume on 'Criminal Psychology & the Criminal Justice System in India' received the Top Downloaded Book Award in Social Sciences books published in 2021-2025 (India) at Springer Nature Books Summit 2026.
She is also deeply committed to advancing public science communication and is currently working on non‑fiction titles to bring rigorous, accessible science to a wider readership.
