Stotra Chakrabarti

Professor Chakrabarti is a behavioral ecologist and conservation biologist studying why and how animals do what they do, and how that affects their interactions with humans. His research entails observing wild animals in their natural settings either personally or through remote cameras, systems ranging from lions, wolves, deer, elephants, and beavers across the hot and dry savannas in India and East Africa, to cold and snowy boreal forests of North America. His research questions address the evolution of sociality, mating strategies, predator-prey interactions, and human-wildlife conflict mitigation. Stotra is deeply invested in communicating and teaching science in classrooms and outside. His classes at Mac provide students with hands-on experiences of working with and understanding animals. He mentors students who are interested in the natural world, and its array of ecological correlates. He’s a big fan of poetry, soccer, ping-pong, philosophy and cheesecakes.

Courses:

1. Animal Behavior: Fundamentals & Applications
2. Wildlife Monitoring Techniques
3. Wildlife Conservation in the Anthropocene
4. Ecology & Environment

Snippet from one of Stotra’s recent courses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVNExGLwiXM

B.S. Presidency College, Calcutta University 2011

M.S. Wildlife Sciences, Wildlife Institute of India 2013

Ph.D. Wildlife Sciences, Forest Research Institute University India, 2018

Postdoc: University of Minnesota 2021