Editorial Team
Our editorial team is composed of students and scholars at the Wildlife Institute of India, most of whom have published articles from their research in peer-reviewed international journals. Learn more about how to join our team.
Executive Editors
Kausik Banerjee
Kausik Banerjee finished his doctorate degree on ecology of the endangered Asiatic lions in human dominated Gir landscape, western India. A graduate from Presidency College, Calcutta and a post-graduate from Forest Research Institute University, Dehradun, he joined WII’s research project on “Lion Ecology” in 2005. With the Asiatic lions occupying human dominated landscapes outside the Gir forests, his PhD thesis investigates lion demography, meta-population dynamics and economics of lion conservation. During his Master’s dissertation he worked in Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, central India for the assessment of prey base for the re-introduction of the Asiatic lions. His primary research interests include carnivore ecology and behaviour, with an emphasis on predation, ranging, habitat use, population dynamics and modeling human–carnivore conflicts.
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Sitendu GoswamiSitendu is a student of Ethology and interested in the intricate nature of complex behaviour sequences. He joined Wildlife Institute of India in 2011 to study the welfare issues affecting captive animals in Indian Zoos. Apart from observing animal behaviour, Sitendu enjoys playing table tennis, long-distance solo biking and motorbiking, and writing. Sitendu believes in the importance of young researchers publishing their work and looks forward to working through BWII to strengthen scientific communication at WII.
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Jennie Miller
Jennie Miller is a doctoral candidate at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in New Haven, CT USA. She has worked as a Research Affiliate at the Wildlife Institute of India since 2008 on a variety of conservation-related issues, from pheasant protection in the Western Himalayas to human-wildlife conflict with large carnivores in central India. Jennie is actively engaged in strengthening scientists' communication skills and founded BWII to facilitate this mission at WII. Her popular articles have appeared in Sanctuary Asia, Scientists Without Borders, SAGE Magazine and the Yale Environmental Review.
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Editors
Sudip BanerjeeSudip is a Junior Research Fellow at the Wildlife Institute of India, where his work focuses on monitoring tigers in Corbett Tiger Reserve. He received his MSc and BSc in Zoology from the University of Calcatta. He is primarily interested in animal behaviour, human-carnivore conflict and predator-prey dynamics.
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Stotra ChakrabartiStotra grew up with an appreciation for wildlife and pursued his graduation in Zoology from Presidency College (now Presidency University) in Kolkata. The urge to pursue wildlife as a career motivated him to join the Masters’ course in Wildlife Sciences in the Wildlife Institute of India (XIIIth Batch). His Master’s dissertation developed a unified method to compute biomass consumption from prey occurrences in scats of tropical felids under the supervision of Dr. Y.V. Jhala and Mr. Qamar Qureshi. His research interests lie in carnivore ecology, population dynamics, prey-predator interactions and human-carnivore conflict.
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Indranil MondalIndranil was initially trained as a Geographer during his Bachelor’s Degree from Presidency College, Kolkata, and thereafter obtained his Master’s Degree in Geoinformatics from University of Pune. He studied habitat fragmentation and connectivity that affect conservation efforts for his Master’s dissertation, which he undertook at WII. Subsequently, he joined WII as a research fellow and took up a study to look at the human dimensions of landuse and landcover change in the Lower Gangetic Basin. Indranil is currently studying the pattern of landscape use by tigers outside Protected Areas, and aims to identify bottlenecks in habitat connectivity faced by dispersing tigers. He is currently developing the same study into his Doctoral Degree from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. His research interests are habitat fragmentation, connectivity, and landuse-landcover dynamics.
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Abesh Sanyal
Abesh Kr Sanyal is a doctoral candidate in the Wildlife Institute of India. His research interests include processes that govern insect macroecology patterns and currently he is working on assemblage structure of Moths along altitudinal gradient in the Western Himalayan Landscape. His broad research interests include insect conservation in Indian context with an emphasis on the response of insect communities with changing environment and climate. The ultimate goal of Abesh’s research is to find ways to strengthen the use of well known insect groups as flagship species to create awareness in the public domain.
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Nikit SurveNikit is from Mumbai and completed his graduation from St. Xaviers' College, Mumbai. He is currently pursuing his Masters degree in Wildlife Science at the Wildlife Institute of India. His research interests lie in man-animal conflict, and he has worked on projects such as camera trapping of leopards and other carnivores, 'Mumbaikars of Sanjay Gandhi National Park', and population estimation surveys in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka.
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Scientific Illustrator
Dibyendu MandalDibyendu is interested in the immense variations that exist at any level of biological and socio-cultural intricacies of wildlife conservation and any kind of art. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and working on the ecology of incipiently social striped hyena. Before joining WII, he worked with Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) for nearly three years on variety of conservation related projects mainly on large mammals. As a child he saw ‘The creation of David’ by Michael Angelo in his history book and dreamt of being an artist like him. Since then he has been sketching away. He contributed through humorous cartoons on issues related to wildlife conservation in WTI’s website biweekly feature, ‘Out of Toon’.
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Faculty Adviser
Dr. V. B. Mathur, Director at the Wildlife Institute of India