Himangshu is a Doctoral Student of the 2023 batch, enrolled in the school of Natural Sciences and Engineering. He completed his B.Sc. in Zoology (Honours) in 2016, followed by M.Sc. in Environmental and Wildlife Sciences in 2018 from Cotton University, Guwahati, India. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Gender Studies.
Himangshu is an aspiring researcher with interdisciplinary interests in conservation biology, human-wildlife interaction, social ecology, and the gendered dimension of ecology. Prior to joining NIAS, he briefly worked as a Project Assistant in a project titled ‘An Exploratory Assessment to identify the Ecosystem Services and alternative livelihood options and to design Advocacy and Campaigning Programme for the Conservation of Deepor Beel- an Urban Ramsar Site, Guwahati, Assam’ under Principal Investigator Dr. Narayan Sharma in the department of Environmental Biology and Wildlife Biology, Cotton University.
He also cleared GATE-2021 in Ecology and Evolution with AIR 79 and UGC NET JRF in Environmental Science in merged sessions of December 2021 & June 2022.