My thesis research examined the morphological and biomechanical diversification in the bills of Asian and African barbets, using three-dimensional morphometric data from museum specimens. In my spare time, I like to play my guitar and chase butterflies around the campus. I am now pursuing my Ph.D in the Biology Department at the University of Washington, Seattle with Prof. Sharlene Santana.

My thesis research focused on the evolution and function of complex songs, using a combination of laboratory experiments and computational analyses. I wish to pursue a career in scientific research pertaining to questions in sensory and behavioural ecology. Outside the lab, I love listening to music, playing cricket, and hanging out with my friends. I am currently pursuing my Ph.D in the lab of Dr. Nathan Morehouse at the University of Cincinnati. 

My thesis work focused on song matching and variation between neighbours in song birds. I carried out fieldwork in Pune and Meghalaya to address these questions. Other than studying birds, I enjoy singing and playing musical instruments like the ukulele and piano.  

My MS thesis studied display behaviours in larks using focal animal sampling. I am broadly interested in understanding bird behavioural types and diversity. I mostly spend my spare time playing football, quizzing, listening to Porcupine Tree or reading Neil Gaiman.

My thesis studied land-use change in semiarid grasslands using passive acoustics. My interests span broad domains, concerning community ecology, but also species-specific studies. When I'm not doing this, you're likely to find me gallivanting around in search of an adventure, often armed with either a camera or a sketchbook!

I participated in field work in the wet grasslands of Arunachal Pradesh, and also interned in the lab in 2020. I pursued my Masters in Wildlife Biology and Conservation at NCBS, Bangalore. I am broadly interested in evolutionary biology, ecology, Natural History, and Animal communication with an emphasis on bioacoustics. I  spend my free time birding, reading, and as a subject of Sutirtha's beverage experiments. (the mint-flavored blue coffee kind!)

For my masters thesis research at NCBS, I studied mixed species bird flocks in the Eastern Himalayas to see how vocal activity and nuclearity are linked. I'm also very drawn to herpetofauna; you'll find me flipping rocks in search of cool bugs & herps or walking around at night with a torch looking for snakes every chance I get.

My other hobbies include not playing an instrument, not writing, not reading books, not drawing, not singing, not dancing, and playing a concerning amount of Pokémon GO. I also play tennis sometimes. 

I graduated with a  B. Sc. degree in zoology from St Xavier's College, Ahmedabad and joined the lab for a summer internship in 2022. I studied and analyzing vocalizations in budgerigars and also worked on the lark project in the field. In my free time I like to read books. Following this internship, I pursued my M.Sc from ATREE, studying urban bat ecology.

I finished my Masters' at SACON, Coimbatore. My research interests lie in various aspects of bat ecology and evolution. I studied bats in an urban landscape using acoustic surveys for my Master's dissertation. When I am not working, I am told I am found lost in my thoughts. I spend my time listening to spoken word, photographing, birding, and cooking. 

During my time in the lab, I studied bat communities in the deserts and thorn forests of Rajasthan using passive acoustic monitoring techniques. I am also interested in physiological and museum-based studies on bats. Prior to my work in Rajasthan, I worked at the Smithsonian Tropical research Institute in Panama under the Supervision of Dr. Rachel Page and Dr. Michael Schoener. I have also worked with Anand and Rohit Chakravarty on the bat communities in Western Himalaya, Uttarakhand. I joined the University of Western Sydney for a Ph.D. in 2023.

If not doing batty-work, you'll find me sketching, playing cricket, birding, reading about archaeology or playing my Dotara! :) 

I am broadly interested in integrating passive acoustic monitoring to inform landscape-level conservation of birds. To this end, I carried out field work in Rajasthan and Arunachal Pradesh, often supplementing field work with fresh fish or kachoris. When I am not doing field work, I am usually seen writing for magazines and newspapers, reading or experimenting with beverages (of all kinds!) . I joined Dr. Sushma Reddy's lab at the University of Minnesota for a Ph.D in Fall 2021.

I'm a bat biologist and Research Associate at the Nature Conservation Foundation, Bangalore. I am finishing my PhD at the Leibniz Insitute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin. I initiated what would become my doctoral research as a Project Assistant at Anand's Bioacoustics Lab in 2017-18, studying community structure of bats along an elevational gradient in the Himalayas of Uttarakhand. Acoustic sampling forms an important component of my current project and my future research interests in understanding the ecology of bats in the Himalayas.

After graduating from IISER Pune's BS-MS program, I studied vocalisations of quail species occurring around Pune during 2019, and did my Ph.D at the University of Montpellier.

Growing up in a village close to the Western Ghats in Kerala, I spent much of my childhood watching birds around my backyard. I’m broadly interested in bird and butterfly community ecology, plant-pollinator interactions, and landscape ecology. I have a master’s degree in Wildlife Biology and Conservation from NCBS, Bangalore, and a bachelor’s in Forestry from Kerala Agricultural University. For my master’s dissertation, I worked on butterfly responses to an edge-to-interior gradient in the rainforest fragments of the Western Ghats. Soon after my master’s, I worked as a Research Assistant at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE) on a project on wildlife corridors of the Western Ghats. I will begin a Ph.D in Germany on a DAAD Fellowship in October 2024.

I am a geologist by training and an ecologist by passion. The initial curiosity about birds and animals tuned my bonding with nature. For my master’s thesis I studied biogenic sediment dwelling structures of ‘Tube Worms’ a.k.a. Sand reefs. I have previously worked closely in the fields of community watershed management, ecological health monitoring, wildlife ecology, eco-tourism and forest restoration. My interest in bird calls and bioacoustics grow up while I explored various wilderness and landscapes. I enjoyed understanding restoration through the lens of bioacoustics while I worked with Project Dhvani at Kanha, central India. 

I am currently pursuing my Ph.D in Dr. Vivek Jayaraman's lab at HHMI Janelia via Johns Hopkins University. I studied Prinia warblers in the lab in Summer 2018, examining acoustic signal partitioning in the songs of four species. I worked with Dr. Raghav Rajan on pre song respiratory activity in zebra finches, and pursued my Masters' thesis at HHMI with Dr. Jayaraman. 

I finished a BS-MS at IISER Pune. I am interested in behavioural ecology in general, and anuran bioacoustics in particular. In the summer of 2019, Varun Sane and I worked on the calls of a frog species endemic to the Western Ghats of India. My broad current interests lie in building empirically grounded eco-evolutionary theory using an integrative approach that combines empirical data with mathematical models. I finished my MS thesis with Dr. Vishwesha Guttal and Prof. Rohini Balakrishnan at CES, IISc, Bangalore, and will soon be joining a Ph.D with Dr. Hanna Kokko at the University of Mainz.

I studied Prinia in the lab in Summer 2018. Following my Msc in the MEME programme for Evolutionary Biology, I joined Stockholm University for a Ph.D. I took two directions during my Masters - conservation behavior ; where I worked on behavioral and physiological adaptations to climatic extremes in the thorn-tailed rayadito at the University of Groningen.  And after being introduced to the field of birdsong by Anand, I followed up on this interest to do my second master's project at the Max Planck for Ornithology in Seewiesen. 

I spent summer 2019 in the lab, studying frog calls. I went on to finish my Masters in Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews under Dr. Stefan Pulver studying the effect of dopamine on fictive locomotion in larval Drosophila melanogaster.

I graduated with a BS-MS degree from IISER Mohali, majoring in Biology. After working for some time with birds and moths, my interest in bat bioacoustics began during the summer of 2019 when I summered in the lab during my BS-MS degree. I have now begun a Ph.D in Prof. Rohini Balakrishnan's lab at CES, IISc, Bengaluru. In my free time, I like to code and try my hand at maths. 

With my interest lying in the broad field of ecology, I am currently trying my hand at various aspects of it! During my time in the lab, I worked on colour variation in the plumage of Asian barbets in the context of phylogeny and geographic distribution. I finished my MS at the TrEE lab at IISER Bhopal, where I studied pollination syndrome in Helicteres isora for my Master's thesis, and have now started a Ph.D with Dr. Miriam Liedvogel at the Institute of Avian Research.

I was a 2022 summer student in the lab, assisting Antara in studying the acoustic communities of grassland birds.

I am a Biology major at IISER Bhopal. I have been an avid birder for most of my life and joined Anand's lab to understand the field of integrative biology and gain field experience. I assisted the lark project with data collection and analysis. In my free time I do origami, play first person shooters or edit bird photographs from my trips.

I'm a Biology major at IISER Bhopal who's joined Anand's lab purely because of the aesthetic beauty of birdsongs. I assisted Padmanav on the lark project in the field and spend my spare time reading naturalist accounts in the lab. In my free time, I enjoy playing table tennis and watching movies.

I am a BS-MS student at IISER Kolkata who joined Anand’s lab in the summer of 2022. In the field, I assisted Padmanav in recording acoustic data on Indian larks. Back in the lab, I studied the syntax of Budgerigar warbles and the correlation between their song and courtship displays. When I am not doing science I might be found writing about it, streaming classical Indian dance videos, or simply enjoying my own company. I mildly enjoy cooking and like to go by the phrase- 'a curious Homo sapiens’.

I am a BS-MS student at IISER Bhopal. Growing up in Kolkata, my fascination in animals ignited at a young age thanks to my grandfather (and his pigeons) and my mother. I studied budgerigars in the lab during December 2022. My recreational activities include listening to music, cooking, reading books, swimming, and going on long walks.

I am a BS-MS student at IISER Pune, working on vocalizations in psittaciform birds beginning winter 2022. In my free time, I enjoy photography, watching movies, birdwatching and speedcubing.

I am a BS-MS student at IISER Bhopal. My interest lies in animal behavior and neuroscience. I am currently learning about the song patterns in Budgerigars. When not running around for work, you will find me sketching, writing or playing guitar.