Faculty Members

Chief Operating Officer & Registrar

Participatory conservation of forest ecosystems; empowerment of indigenous communities for climate change; SDGs goals; natural resource management policies; Primate feeding (new)

Emeritus Professor

Gums and resins, woods, ethnoveterinary science and practice to combat AMR, development and testing of ethnoveterinary products

Assistant Professor

Plant systematics and Nomenclature, Taxonomy of Angiosperms, E-flora, Revision, Monographs, Palynology, Ethnobotany, Conservation of Medicinal Plants and RET species. Ecological studies, Aquatic plants (Fresh water)

Professor & Dean (Research & Outreach)

Food Analytics & Developing an Integrative Nutrition Database, Mass Personalization of Nutrition, Post-harvest botanical processing for value addition, Functional food design, Process Science & Tech, Texturizing Vegetarian Proteins

Associate Professor, Coexistence Studies

Ecology, Animal Behaviour, Bioacoustics, Climate Change, Anthropological Linguistics, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Alternative pedagogies

Assistant Professor

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Associate Professor

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Assistant Professor

Clinical studies on whole system Ayurveda, Ayurveda concepts, Prakruti and wellness, panchakarma based studies, clinical trials on herbal/ Ayurveda drug formulations, studies based on retrospective and prospective clinical data analysis.

Associate Professor

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Assistant Professor

Ecological niche modelling studies of medicinal plants (RET), GIS based species distribution; ecology, integration with conservation and public health, teaching: Botany; Taxonomy

Associate Professor

Pharmacognosy and Pharmacology of medicinal plants. Substitutes for rare and endangered medicinal plants. Rejuvenative medicines of Ayurveda

Professor

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Associate Professor

Applied Ethno-botany, Medicinal plant Conservation, Forest resources and sustainable use, Education outreach activities

Associate Professor

Landscape; restoration ecology, plant-animal interaction, interdisciplinary educational and research program for environment and society

Associate Professor

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Professor

• Distribution, demography, behavioural ecology, and life-history of Indian nonhuman primates
• Social relationships, communication, social cognition, and cultural traditions of nonhuman primates
• Cognitive evolution of tool-making abilities in nonhuman primates and hominids
• Population-, behavioural and evolutionary genetics of Indian macaques
• Demography, socioecology and evolutionary biology of Asian elephants
• Human–wildlife relationships, anthropogenic/urban ecologies, and synurbisation of nonhuman populations
• Philosophy of biology, cognition, mind, and consciousness: Western and Indian traditions
• Cognition and symbolism in Indian prehistoric and historic art and technology
• Cultural and performance studies of human and nonhuman communities

Emeritus Professor

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Assistant Professor

Molecular fingerprinting for plants, molecular phylogeny, plant nutrient bioavailability for human health

Associate Professor

Pharmacognosy; Ethnobotany; Trade of Medicinal Plants; Conservation of Medicinal Plants; Floristics of Angiosperms and Database

Associate Professor

Ayurveda, Community health, Local Health Traditions/Folk medicine: Documentation,
Assessment, Clinical studies, Field trials; Public Health issues: Malaria, Diarrhoea,
Anaemia; Tribal health; Ethics committee

Emeritus Professor

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Assistant Professor

Ayurveda Outreach, Ayurveda Fundamentals, Clinical Application of Fundamentals of Ayurveda.

Assistant Professor

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Emeritus Professor

Studies on Medicinal plants used in Indian knowledge systems and their application in contemporary health needs

Associate Professor

Ayurveda Neurobiology, Cognitive enhancement: Community based clinical research, Mode of Action of Ayurveda Nootropics : C elegans models

Assistant Professor

Community Ecology: ecosystem structure, function, management; ecological economics, biodiversity conservation, soil and pollution ecology

Assistant Professor

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Associate Professor

Asian Elephants, Human-Elephant Interactions, Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Socioecological Systems, Community-based Lantana management

Adjunct Faculty

Wildlife connectivity; rural livelihoods; food security; social-ecological systems; landscape management; landscape ecology; community ecology; human-wildlife interactions; geographic focus – central India

Associate Professor

Traditional foods, Public health nutrition, Early life malnutrition, Drosophila gut biology

Associate Professor

Microbiome (Plants, Animals and humans), Integration of high end technology and Ayurveda for wellness, Sequencing and functional annotation of medicinal plants genomes, Plant DNA fingerprinting

Associate Professor

Ayurveda Physician, Ayurveda Biology, Clinical Research

Professor of Practice

Health for All, Nutrition and Health

Emeritus Professor

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Assistant Professor

Climate change vulnerability, Data analytics, Remote sensing and GIS; In-silico Platform for Medicinal plants based drug discovery using Network Pharmacology

Associate Professor

Ayurveda Biology of metabolic diseases, Glucose and Fat metabolism,
Ayurveda formulations and network pharmacology; Transdisciplinary concepts in biology