Harman Jaggi

I am an ecologist studying the effects of disturbances (environmental and anthropogenic) on populations, species, and socio-ecological systems. I use mathematical, computational and field based approaches to understand how populations and species cope with variation.

Currently, I am a HMEI postdoctoral researcher in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology dept, Princeton University, advised by Simon Levin. I completed my PhD in the Dept of Biology, Stanford University (2024) under the supervision of Shripad Tuljapurkar. 

My thesis titled 'Dynamics at multiple scales: Sites, Individuals and Populations' was awarded Samuel Karlin Prize in Mathematical Biology in 2024. My socio-ecological research on traditional production systems in the Indian-Trans Himalaya was awarded the Sustainability Accelerator award from the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and was supported by Stanford King Center on Global Development. During the final year of my PhD, I was awarded the Bing-Ehrlich Fellowship in Environmental Science and Conservation from the Dept of Biology, Stanford University. 

Prior to starting PhD, I worked with the high altitudes program at Nature Conservation Foundation in Bengaluru, India on estimating snow leopard population densities in the Indian Trans Himalaya.

When not working, I enjoy cooking, going for concerts and discovering new music.