Anindita Bhadra
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:
- Professor, IISER Kolkata (current)
- Editorial Board member, Indian Academy of Sciences (2025 - 2027)
- Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata (2019 - 2025)
- 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:
- Editorial Board member from Animal Behavior and Cognition Journal (2022)
- Community Gateway Advisor from Open Research Europe (2022)
- Academic Editor from PLoS ONE (2022)
- Member, International advisory board from IYBSSD2022 (2021)
- Janaki Ammal National Women Bioscientist Award from DBT (2021)
- CoChair from Global Young Academy (2020)
- 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)