Chatterjee is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Cultural Sciences, and member of the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University, Sweden. He is also an Affiliated Researcher, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway.

His research interests include health and disaster politics, global history, colonial and postcolonial studies, and South Asian history, politics and culture.

Niladri Chatterjee studied at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Calcutta University, India, before receiving his PhD in Modern South Asian History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London, United Kingdom. Between January 2016 and June 2018, he served as Assistant Professor in History in the Department of History and Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, North South University, Bangladesh. Between June 2019 and April 2024 Chatterjee was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, Norway. He has previously worked as Guest Lecturer in the Department of History at Rabindra Bharati University (2012-2013) and as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, India.

At Linnaeus University, Chatterjee act as the co-coordinator (since Fall 2025) for the master's program in colonial and postcolonial studies. He is also the coordinator and tutor for the course 4KP420 (Criticism and Theory), 4KP430 (Methods and Practices), and 4KP442 (Postcolonial Encounters).  

Teaching

Chatterjee's teaching (undergraduate and postgraduate) and research intersts include South Asian History, Politics and Culture, Global Health Politics, Historical Disasters, Colonial-Polycolonial-Postcolonial encounters from a transnational perspective. 

For the Master's course in colonial and postcolonial studies in Fall 2024, Chatterjee is in charge of the course: 4KP442 - Postcolonial encounters. He is also part of the teaching course 4KP430 - Method and practices in the humanities. 

Since Fall 2025, Chatterjee act as the co-coordinator for the master's program in colonial and postcolonial studies. He is also the coordinator and tutor for the course 4KP420 (Criticism and Theory), 4KP430 (Methods and Practices), and 4KP442 (Postcolonial Encounters).

Research

Chatterjee's research interests include health and disaster politics, global history, colonial and postcolonial studies, and South Asian history, politics and culture. He regularly publishes research articles and opinions in various international peer-reviewed academic journals, newspapers and podcasts. 

From January 2026, Chatterjee will be working on the research project "From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: The Swedish Match Industry and the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia, c. 1920–1970" (Från kolonial marknad till postkoloniala nätverk: Den svenska tändsticksindustrin och omstruktureringar av den globala handeln i Sydasien, ca 1920–1970). The project was awarded a multi-year funding by the Swedish research Council in November 2025. The project will be officially led by Eleonor Marcussen (Senior Lecturer, LNU).