Dr. Nishant Srinivasaiah is a behavioural ecologist whose work focuses on elephants and the complexities of human–elephant coexistence across its range countries. With over 16 years of field-based research experience, he has led and contributed to studies on elephant movement, decision-making, conservation governance and conflict mitigation across protected and human-dominated landscapes. Nishant holds a PhD from the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore and an MSc in Wildlife Biology and Conservation from the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He is also a member of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group at the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) – Species Survival Commission (SSC) and recipient of multiple conservation awards. He continues to integrate science, policy and community engagement to advance long-term elephant conservation along with Governmental and Non-Governmental Organisations across elephant Range countries.
Professor G Parthasarathy FNA, Adjunct Professor of NIAS, has been awarded the prestigious DAE-Raja Ramanna Chair Professorship by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. He shall be researching Minerals at DAE-Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research, Southern Region, Bengaluru. Professor Gopalakrishnarao Parthasarathy, after school education at Chidambaram , Tamil Nadu, he has obtained First Class, and First Rank in B.Sc (Physics) and M.Sc in Physics from Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu;
He obtained PhD in Physics in 1984 from Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, Karnataka. Served as a Faculty at IISc during 1984-89; He was a
faculty at Materials Research center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore during
1984‐89. Visiting Fellow at Cornell University 1989-1990; Since 1990 has been
working on in Earth and Planetary materials science at CSIR-NGRI till 2018 .
After superannuation from CSIR-NGRI he joined as an Adjunct Professor
and INSA Senior Scientist at School of Natural Sciences and Engineering,
National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, President of Indian
Social Science Academy 2021-2022;
1990-2018 :During his tenure at CSIR-National Geophysical Research
Institute, he initiated new research programs like “ Mineral Physics” “
Nanogeoscience” and “Environmental Mineralogy” at CSIR-NGRI.
He has also made outstanding contributions on the terrestrial analogs of
Martian and Lunar surface materials. He has published about 320 research papers
in peer reviewed, and 8 international patents to his credit in the area of condensed
matter Physics, Experimental Mineralogy and Materials Science, Earth and
Planetary sciences and Environmental Social Science.
His recognitions include
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow , Germany 1987‐88,
Post Doc Faculty, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA during 1989‐ 90.
Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry,
2003 He is a recipient of the prestigious PRL Award , Physical Research
Laboratory, 2003;
National Mineral Award from Ministry of Mines, Government of India,
2003,
GSI-MR Srinivasa Rao Award of the Geological Society of India 2008
MRSI Medal from the Materials Research Society of India, 2007 for the
contributions to the earth and planetary materials science.
Andhra Pradesh Scientist Award from APCOST, for the year 2007;
Decennial Gold Medal of Indian Geophysical Union for the year 2009.
Best Reviewer Award from the Geoscience Frontiers, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing, China 2016.
President of Indian Social Science Academy. Allahabad 2021-22
