Student Achievements

Placements

Dr. Manabi Paul, the first PhD to graduate from the lab, received the DST-INSPIRE faculty position in the Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Calcutta University in 2019.

Jayjit Das received Samir Mehta Fellowship in 2017, as a Young India Fellow, to pursue Liberal studies at Ashoka University, after he graduated from the Lab.

Muhzina Shajid Pyari received Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship  in 2018 to pursue PhD in Hungary, after she graduated from the Lab

Travel Grants and other Fellowships/Sponsorships

Rohan Sarkar has been awarded the JEDI grant of the Animal Behaviour Society, USA in March 2022.

Rohan Sarkar received the ABS Developing Nations Grant,2021.

Dr. Rubina Mondal has been awarded WALTHAM Foundation Grant to study behaviour and welfare in free-ranging dogs in shelters across India.

Rohan Sarkar received  the  first position in Euraxess India Science Slam 2020, organised in partnership with Cactus Communications, Delegation of the European Union to India, Embassy of the Czech Republic in New Delhi, IndiaBioscience and Nuffic Neso India. 

Debottam Bhattacharjee received the highly prestigious Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship for his post-doctoral studies, in February, 2020.

Debottam Bhattacharjee received an International Travel Grant, DST – SERB (Dept. of Science and Technology, Science and Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India) to attend Behaviour 2019 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.

Arunita Banerjee received a position in an all-expenses covered SERB sponsored school in Evolutionary Biology, organized at Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru, sponsored by DST-SERB (Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.)

Debottam Bhattacharjee received the prestigious Developing Nations Research Award from the Animal Behavior Society, USA , in 2019.

Debottam Bhattacharjee received Graduate Student Travel Grant, Animal Behavior Society, USA to attend Behaviour 2019 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA, in 2019.

Debottam Bhattacharjee received International Travel Grant, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER Kolkata), Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India to attend European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Liverpool, UK, in 2018.

Debottam Bhattacharjee received European Society for Evolutionary Biology Congress Attendance Grant, ESEB to attend European Society for Evolutionary Biology XVI Congress, Groningen, the Netherlands, in 2017 

Debottam Bhattacharjee received fellowship for Incoming Ph.D. student, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria, in 2017.

Debottam Bhattacharjee received INSA-CSIR-DAE/BRNS-CICS Travel Fellowship (Centre for International Co-operation in Science) to attend VIII. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2016

Debottam Bhattacharjee received Assured Opportunity for Research Careers (AORC), Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Ph.D. Fellowship, Govt. of India, in 2014

Best Poster Awards

Rohan Sarkar won the first prize for poster presentation at ISAZ 2023.

Rohan Sarkar won the best poster for "Social Scavenging in Free-ranging dogs?" in Understanding Behaviour Conference 2019, at IISER Kolkata

Manabi Paul received the best poster award in Advances in Life sciences", 10th year celebration of Indian Institute of Science Education & Research – Kolkata, 2017.

Manabi Paul received the best poster award in Frontiers in Modern Biology (FIMB), 2012, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research – Kolkata.