Mousumi Ghosh

Academic Dean, School for Science and Conservation

PhD

I received my Masters degree in Wildlife Science from the Wildlife Institute of India in 2007 and my doctoral degree from Saurashtra University in 2013. For my doctoral research, I studied the historical and ecological correlates of breeding distribution of Himalayan leaf warbler communities. In 2017, I joined the National Centre for Biological Sciences as a NCBS-inStem-Cambridge postdoc fellow and focused on developing molecular tools to study the diet and evolutionary aspects of critically endangered Gyps vultures. In addition, I have worked in multiple collaborative projects including evaluating the role of protected areas in biodiversity conservation in India, developing GBIF best practices for databasing camera-trap images, assessing human dimensions of tiger conservation in the western Terai, and conservation decision analysis. I joined NCF as the Academic Dean in September 2020. My role includes planning, coordinating and developing the PhD and Conservation Leadership Programme at NCF. I work closely with the Academic and Student Affairs committee, faculty and the student community within NCF to meet these objectives.

Projects

Publications

Demographic and ecological correlates of a recovering tiger (Panthera tigris) population: Lessons learnt from 13-years of monitoring

Journal Article

2020

Demographic and ecological correlates of a recovering tiger (Panthera tigris) population: Lessons learnt from 13-years of monitoring

Protected areas and biodiversity conservation in India

Journal Article

2019

Protected areas and biodiversity conservation in India

Dataset

2019

Camera trap database of Tiger from Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand

Journal Article

2018

Losing time for the tiger Panthera tigris: delayed action puts a globally threatened species at risk of local extinction