Shivani
Shivani Krishna is an Assistant Professor of Biology. Before joining Ashoka, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Insect Ecology and Behaviour Laboratory at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her work funded by Israel Science Foundation focused on learning of complex flower morphologies by bumblebees.
She completed her PhD from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)-Thiruvananthapuram working on plant-animal interactions and plant reproductive ecology in the evolutionarily unique freshwater swamp forests in the Western Ghats. She continued as a bridging postdoctoral fellow examining the ecological significance of touch-sensitive stigmas in plants. Her research interests lie in understanding ecological mechanisms that structure plant-animal interactions, with focus on pollination, herbivory and seed dispersal
Graduate Students
Diana Michael
March 2021
Upasana Sengupta
December 2020
Manan Mehta
Research Fellows and Interns
Kunjan Joshi
Research FellowKunjan Joshi
Research FellowAshoka Scholars Programme
Soham Kacker
Forests in Flux (2022-2023)Soham Kacker
Forests in Flux (2022-2023)Ashoka Scholars Program
Past Lab Members
Apoorva Gopinath
Research FellowMSc Zoology, CUK
Besufekad
Ashoka Scholars Program (2021-2022)
Tatsam Garg
Winter 19' internPhysics Major, Ashoka
Anitha Eswari
Monsoon 19' InternBiology Major, Ashoka
Tejashwini Hegde
Research FellowBS-MS, IISER Mohali
Dev M
Nov 19'-Feb 20' InternMS Animal Sciences, CUK
Rimjhim
Ashoka Scholars Program (2020-2021)
Bhavya Dugar
Ashoka Scholars Program (2020-2021)
Pooja Chand
Research FellowSERB-funded project
Gayathri V
InternShiv Nadar University