3. FACULTY, STAFF & STUDENTS

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CHAIRMEN

Madhav Gadgil Ph.D. (Harvard) 1983-1992
Raghavendra Gadagkar Ph.D. (IISc) 1992-

Core Faculty

Madhav Gadgil Ph.D. (Harvard) - Professor
Raghavendra Gadagkar Ph.D. (IISc) - Associate Professor
N.V.Joshi Ph.D. (IISc) - Assistant Professor
R. Sukumar Ph.D. (IISc) - Assistant Professor

Associate Faculty

Sulochana Gadgil Ph.D. (Harvard) - Professor
Vidyanand Nanjundiah Ph.D. (Chicago) - Professor
D.K. Subramanian Ph.D. (IISc) - Professor
N.H.Ravindranath Ph.D. (IIT/B) - Senior Scientific Officer

S.P. Govindaraju Ph.D. (Cal Tech) - Professor
Y.V. Venkatesh Ph.D. (IISc) - Professor
M.S. Hegde Ph.D. (IIT/K) - Associate Professor
M.S. Shaila Ph.D. (IISc) - Associate Professor

Former Faculty

C.J. Saldanha Ph.D. (Bombay)
S. Narendra Prasad Ph.D. (IISc)
B.K. Misra Ph.D. (NEHU)
Ramachandra Guha Ph.D. (IIM, Calcutta) - Visiting Faculty

Technical Staff

D.M. Bhat M.Sc. (Karnatak) - Technical Officer Gr. I
T.V. Ramachandra B.E. (Bangalore) - Technical Officer Gr. I
N.N. Janardanan Pillai M.Sc. (Kerala) - Computer Programmer

Supporting Staff

1. Vijayageetha R Gadagkar Laboratory Asst.
2. Swarnalatha V B Laboratory Asst.
3. Bhat P R Laboratory Asst.
4. Lakshmi R Stenographer
5. Venkatappa T Mechanic
6. Manavalan K Gest. Operator
7. Yeshwanth G Kanade Gest. Operator
8. Murugeshachar N Lab. Helper
9. Rosario M Furtado Driver
10. Augustin Durairaj Lab. Helper

Project Staff

1. Padmini Nair Project Assistant
2. Prema A Iyer Project Assistant
3. Suresh H S Project Assistant
4. Dattaraja H S Project Assistant
5. Surendra Varman K Project Assistant
6. Niraj U. Joshi Project Assistant
7. Shrikanth V. Gunaga Project Assistant
8. Rajshekar Project Assistant
9. Prakash Y H Project Assistant
10. Krishna M B Project Assistant
11. Bharat Singh Rawat Project Assistant
12. Vedham K Project Assistant
13. Satees Chandra Project Assistant
14. Milind D. Kolatkar Project Assistant
15. Nagaratnamma A V Laboratory Assistant
16. Nirmala S Laboratory Assistant
17. Shastri C M Laboratory Assistant
18. Hegde G T Laboratory Assistant
19. Geetha T.S. Project Trainee
20. Christy Williams Project Trainee
21. Vasantha D. Project Trainee
22. Indrani Surya Prakash Junior Research Fellow
23. Geeta Rajagopalan Junior Research Fellow
24. Raghavendra Rao Field Assistant
25. Ravichandra Field Assistant
26. Hegde G N Field Assistant
27. Shetti D M Field Assistant
28. Harikantra, R B Field Assistant
29. Patgar, S G Field Assistant
30. Bharanaiah C M Field Assistant
31. Mohan R Driver
32. M B Naik Field Trainee
33. Doddaiah Field Trainee

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Students registered for the Ph.D. degree
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   NAME                 SUPERVISOR            THESIS TOPIC 
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Prabhakar, R           Madhav Gadgil    An ecological history of the 
                                        Nilgiris.

Seshagiri Rao, P.R.    Madhav Gadgil    Co-operation and human use of 
                                        natural resources.

Sudha Premnath         Raghavendra      Dominance behaviour and colony 
                       Gadagkar         regulation in the  primitively 
                                        eusocial wasp, Ropalidia 
                                        marginata.

Shri Niwas Singh       Madhav Gadgil    Plant genetic resources.

Mallikarjun Shakarad   Raghavendra      Colony foundation in aprimitively
                       Gadagkar         eusocial wasp.

Ramachandra, T.V.      N V Joshi/       Ecologically  sound, 
                       D K Subramanian  integrated regional energy 
                                        planning.

Arathi, H.S.           Raghavendra      The  role of  mutualism  in  the
                       Gadagkar         origin of social life in wasps.

Santosh, J.A.          R Sukumar        Social behaviour of elephants. 

Hans Raj Negi          Madhav Gadgil    Revegetation studies. 

Kartik Shankar         R Sukumar        Diversity in Vertebrate Groupsin
                                        the Nilgiris

Dhrubajyoti Naug       Raghavendra      Social organisation & divisionof
                       Gadagkar         labour in the primitivelyeusocial 
                                        wasp Ropaldia marginata

Robert, J.             R Sukumar        Climate change       
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