Education, experience & recognition

Ph.D. in Zoology

ThesisThe migratory pattern and identification of habitat patches with nesting success of Merops philippinus

In the croplands of the Gangetic Delta, India, the Blue-tailed Bee-eater (Merops philippinus) nests during summer for breeding. Farmers seek to concretise river cliffs to prevent agricultural land loss — but this infrastructure destroys the birds' natural habitat and eliminates their critical role in natural pest control. My research identified where habitat corridors must be preserved during concretisation to maintain the bird population during breeding, integrating climate, soil, insect and aquatic predictors with birds' nesting, breeding success and demographic variables as latent and response variables, using a hybrid combination of process-based and machine-learning models.

M.Sc. in Zoology

ThesisEcological mechanism behind the decrease in migratory bird diversity

Supervisor: Prof. Santanu Ray — Department of Zoology, Visva-Bharati University

B.Sc. in Zoology (Honours)