Faculties
Sumanta Bagchi
Designation : Associate Professor
Lab Address: TB-03
Phone: +91-80-2293-3528
Specialization: Ecosystem function and services, Biodiversity and Global change, Coupled human and natural ecosystems, Plant-herbivore interactions, Wildlife Conservation.
Rohini Balakrishnan
Designation : Professor
Lab Address: TA-08
Phone: +91-80-2293-3101, +91-80-2360-2971
Specialization: Acoustic communication networks, Acoustic signals in mate-finding and mate choice, Systematics and phylogenetics: Species delineation and identification, signal evolution, acoustic biodiversity monitoring and vocal repertoires and their functions.
Renee M. Borges
Designation : Professor
Lab Address: TE-14
Phone: +91-80-2293-3103, +91-80-2360-2972
Specialization: Plant–Animal Interactions, Chemical Ecology, Visual Ecology, Sensory Biology
Raghavendra Gadagkar
Designation : Honorary Professor and DST Year of Science Chair Professor
Lab Address: TBAH-01
Phone: +91-80-2293-2340, +91-80-2360-1429
Specialization: Evolution of Social Life in Insects, Insect Ecology, Biogeography and Biodiversity, Social Organisation and Division of Labour in Insect Societies
Kavita Isvaran
Designation : Associate Professor
Lab Address: TB-02
Phone: +91-80-2293-2575
Specialization: Ecology and evolution of behaviour and life histories, Applying approaches from behavioural ecology and evolution towards conservation
Praveen Karanth
Designation : Professor and Chairperson
Lab Address: TE-11
Phone: +91-80-2293-3105
Specialization: Historical biogeography and phylogeography. Molecular phylogenetics, Species delimitation using molecular tools, Character evolution, Conservation genetics
Saskya van Nouhuys
Designation : Associate Professor
Lab Address: TA-09
Phone: +91-80-2293-3728, +91-80-2360-0985
Specialization: Habitat fragmentation, spatial ecology, population dynamics, multitrophic interactions, host-parasite interactions
Kartik Shanker
Designation : Professor
Lab Address: TB-01
Phone: +91-80-2293-3104, +91-80-2360-0453
Specialization: Community ecology and macroecology (diversity and distributions), Historical biogeography, phylogeography and phylogenetics, Marine turtle biology and conservation
Umesh Srinivasan
Designation : Assistant Professor
Lab Address: TE-12
Phone: +91-80
Specialization: Biodiversity, community ecology, wildlife biology, conservation science, impacts of climate change and land-use change on biodiversity
Raman Sukumar
Designation : Honorary Professor
Lab Address: TE-13
Phone: +91-80-2293-3102, +91-80-2360-0382
Specialization: Research in Ecology, Zoology and Molecular Biology. Current project is 'Assessment of stress-physiology in free-ranging Asian elephants.'
Kartik Sunagar
Designation : Assistant Professor
Lab Address: TA-06
Phone: +91-80-2293-2635, +91-80-2293-2896
Specialization: Biology and evolution of animal venoms; molecular mechanisms underpinning venom production, regulation and diversification; evolutionary origin of venom delivery apparatus (venom producing cells, glands and piercing structures); predator-prey evolutionary
Maria Thaker
Designation : Associate Professor
Lab Address: TB-04
Phone: +91-80-2293-3100, +91-80-2360-1455
Specialization: Predator-prey interactions, Macrophysiology of stress coping responses, Physiological and behavioral ecology of animals, movement ecology
administrator, Faculties
Vishwesha Guttal
Designation : Associate Professor
Lab Address: TA-10
Phone: +91-80-2293-2872, +91-80-2360-5797
Specialization: Theoretical ecology and evolution, Self-organization and spatial evolutionary ecology, Applications of nonequilibrium statistical physics to ecology.
Scientific Officer
T.V. Ramachandra
Designation : Scientific Officer - Gr 1
Lab Address: TE-15
Phone: +91-80-2293-3099, +91-80-2293-3503
Specialization: Energy: Renewable energy, Integrated Energy Planning, Conservation of Terrestrial and Aquatic ecosystems, Biodiversity-Ecology-Hydrology linkages, Ecological modelling, Wetlands, Soil and Water Pollution, Bioremediation, Municipal Solid Waste Management
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