Anindita Bhadra

Associate Professor
Dept: Biological Sciences (DBS)
E-mail: abhadra [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
I work on the behavioural ecology of the Indian free-ranging dogs. I use the dogs as a model system to address various questions in behavioural ecology pertaining to aggression, mating, parental care, foraging and social organization. I would like to use this system to understand the evolution of the dog-human relationship in nature.
Academic Background:
- PhD (Animal Behaviour), Centre for Ecological Sciences (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), 2008, Thesis title: Queens and their Successors: The story of Power in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidia marginata
- MSc (Zoology), Ballygunge Science College (Calcutta University), 2001
- BSc (Zoology), Vivekananda College, Thakurpukur (Calcutta University), 1999
Positions:
- Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata (current)
- Associate Dean IRO, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (2019 - 2021)
- Co-Chair, Global Young Academy (2020 - 2021)
- Review Editor, Frontiers in Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology (2016 - 2020)
- Member, Executive Committee, GYA (2019 - 2020)
- Co-leader: SciDip, GYA (2018 - 2019)
- Editor, Connections, GYA (2018 - 2019)
- Group Leader, Science Education for the Youth WG, GYA (2016 - 2019)
- Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata (2016 - 2019)
- Affiliate Faculty, Oregon State University (2015 - 2018)
- Chair, INYAS (2015 - 2018)
- Assistant Professor (on contract), IISER Kolkata (2014 - 2016)
- IISER Fellow, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research - Kolkata (2009 - 2014)
- Research Associate, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2007 - 2009)
Awards and Honors:
- Member of RSB from Royal Society of Biology (2019)
- Executive Committee Member from Global Young Academy (2019)
- MemberStanding Consultative Committee of Young Scientists from Ministry of Science & Technology (2017)
- Nodal Officer & Local Coordinator from Identification and Mentoring of Potentially Gifted Children in Science and Mathematics, DST (2017)
- ESEB Outreach Grant from ESEB (2016)
- Review Editor from Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Journal (2016)
- Member from Global Young Academy (2016)
- Member, Editorial Board from Proceedings of INSA (2015)
- IAP Young Scientist 2015 from IAP (2015)
- Founding member, INYAS from INSA (2015)
- Young Scientist Delegate from Royal Society, UK and DST, India (2014)
- Fellow of OWSD, TWAS from Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (2013)
- Indian Delegate, BAS-TWAS-ROCASA workshop from TWAS-ROCASA, India (2013)
- SERB Women Excellence Award from DST (2013)
- INSA Young Scientist from INSA (2009)
- K S Rao Memorial Award from Vivekananda College, Thakurpukur (2000)
Selected Publications:
- Bhattacharjee, Debottam and Bhadra, Anindita. 2020."Humans Dominate the Social Interaction Networks of Urban Free-Ranging Dogs in India." Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1-11
- Bhadra, Anindita. 2020."Why trek Amazon for biodiversity? Look at your neighbourhood dog." The Federal , June,
- Bhattacharjee, Debottam; Mandal, Sarab; Shit, Piuli; Varghese, Mebin George; Vishnoi, Aayushi and Bhadra, Anindita. 2020."Free-Ranging Dogs Are Capable of Utilizing Complex Human Pointing Cues." Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1-9
- Sarkar, Rohan; Sau, Shubhra and Bhadra, Anindita. 2019."Scavengers can be choosers: A study on food preference in free-ranging dogs." Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 216, 38-44
- Shrestha, Uttam Babu and Bhadra, Anindita. 2019."Science in South Asia." Science, 364, 1211-1211
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