Meet the Team

  • Dr Arjun Srivathsa

    PROJECT LEADER

    Arjun is a DST INSPIRE Fellow at the National Centre for Biological Sciences–TIFR, Bengaluru and Affiliate Scientist at Wildlife Conservation Society–India. He works on the conservation ecology of dholes and other carnivores.

  • Mayank Shukla

    RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

    Mayank is associated with The Dhole Project at NCBS–TIFR. His work involves examining dhole population dynamics and dhole–human interactions in Kerala.

  • Thasmai H S

    PROJECT ASSISTANT

    Thasmai’s interest lies in carnivore ecology, particularly canid species. Additionally, she is interested in human-wildlife interactions, and wildlife law enforcement.

  • Aswathy E B

    RESEARCH ASSISTANT

    Aswathy's interests include stress and disease assessment in large carnivore species, as well as conservation education. She is currently working on population analysis of dholes in the Western Ghats.

  • Karthik Thottathil

    RESEARCH ASSISTANT

    Karthik is associated with the Dhole Project at NCBS-TIFR. His research interests include bioacoustics and social behaviour of Dholes in Western Ghats.

  • N Devanand

    JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW

    Devanand is a Junior Research Fellow at NCBS–TIFR. He completed his Master’s at NISER. His work involves using molecular techniques and bioinformatics to study dhole population dynamics and ecology.

  • Abhinand AS

    PROJECT ASSISTANT

    Abhinand is associated with The Dhole Project at NCBS-TIFR. His research interests include behavioural ecology, human wildlife interactions and coexistence.

  • Divyajyoti Ganguly

    PROJECT AFFILIATE

    Divyajyoti has interests in understanding species interactions and population dynamics in carnivorans. With The Dhole Project he is involved with understanding dhole populations through a genomics lens. He has a Masters in Wildlife Biology and Conservation from NCBS (2020–2022).

DHOLE ‘UMNI

  • Abhijith Sureshbabu

  • Ryan G Rodrigues

  • Arjun Suresh

INTERNS (PAST AND CURRENT)

  • Sujay Kotian

  • Agnishikhe MA

  • Anza Simon

  • Kaushal Chauhan

  • Tanaaz Kothawalla

  • Anjana Edayatil

  • Vishnu Thavara

  • Adnan Ahmed

  • Alphonsa George

  • Vishal Pai

  • Habeel Sahal

  • Rohan R

  • Evelyn Tom

  • Jonathan Rozario

  • Harsha CP

  • Kousik PM

  • Rinzen

  • Tanya Abraham

  • Amruthavarshini SN

  • Amaan Shaikh

  • Surabi R

  • Mohammed Shahir

  • Vigneshwaran AK

  • Ardra Raju

  • Jeffy Mathew

  • Vishnu P

  • Hrithika CA

  • Siddhartha Natarajan

  • Adirsha OG

  • Akshaya NC

  • Sreelakshmi K

  • Pooja Saravanan

  • Sabiya Sheikh

  • Avantika Deep Sharma

  • Jidesh Vedaanthagan

  • Sethulakshmi ED

  • Sherin Maria Mathew

  • Harrington Deva

  • Aswathi Shibu

  • Sindhoora Nandakumar

  • Midhun Mohan

  • Abraham Pious

  • Anshita Das