User Bio -
               Ancestrally from Kolkata, West Bengal. I graduated from the University of Calcutta with B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Zoology. Then I moved to Mohali, Punjab to complete my PhD in Evolutionary Biology under the mentorship of Prof. N. G. Prasad, IISER Mohali. After a brief postdoc stint with Prof. Amitabh Joshi at JNCASR, Bangalore, I moved to Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University and took up my first faculty position (DST-INSPIRE Faculty). Since 2016 October, I am a faculty member at the IISER Berhampur. Apart from being the founding member of the Department of Biological Sciences, I am currently heading the department. I am also serving the role of Dean/Faculty-in-charge, Student Affairs. Extremely passionate about Evolution and Ecology, I am more conventional and classical Evolutionist - mostly find interest in organismal level work. Love teaching. Love playing - cricket, football etc. I am an Evolutionary Biologist working on life history and reproductive adaptations, largely using experimental evolution on fruit flies. I am the founding member of the Department of Biological Sciences at IISER Berhampur. My lab, Behaviour and Evolution laboratory (BEL), works on various issues in sexual selection and life history theories. Largely an experimental evolutionary ecologist, I have deep interest in Genetics and Behavioural Ecology. We use Drosophila melanogaster (a type of fruit flies) laboratory adapted population to understand adaptive evolution, including its constraints.
| Professor | IISER Berhampur, Berhampur, Odisha | Post Doct. | 2016 | Ecological Sciences

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