Life Story of an Assamese Woman Scientist: From Village Girl to Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awardee 2024

Life Story of an Assamese Woman Scientist: From Village Girl to Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awardee 2024

২০২৪ চনৰ শান্তি স্বৰূপ ভাটনগৰ বঁটা প্ৰাপক ড: পূৰবী শইকীয়া বাইদেউৰ সৈতে এক অনুপ্ৰেৰণামূলক কথোপকথন।


About Dr. Purabi Saikia:

Dr. Saikia has been working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Botany, Institute
of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi since June 2024. She is working in the field of
plant ecology including phytosociology, population and regeneration ecology, conservation of
rare, endangered plant species, plant-soil interactions, plant population mapping, biomass and
productivity estimation, plant invasions, and ecological niche modelling in Indian forests. She
has received eight different R & D projects sponsored by MoEFCC, DST, DBT, SERB, UGC,
SAC-Ahmedabad, Govt. of India for the analyses of vegetation dynamics of Indian forests. She
has supervised 01 Ph.D. thesis (03 ongoing) and 39 PG dissertations. Presently, she is an active
member of the IUCN-Commission on Ecosystem Management-South Asia and Global Forests
Biodiversity Initiatives (GFBI)-USA. She is the recipient of the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar:
Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar 2024 in Environmental Sciences, Fellow Award 2021
and Women Scientist Award (Age Group below 45 Years) 2020 of The Society for Science of
Climate Change and Sustainable Environment-New Delhi, PHSS Foundation Young Women
Leadership Award 2018-2019 of the Prof. HS Srivastava Foundation for Science and SocietyLucknow, DBT Research Associate in 2011, startup grant under SERB-Young Scientists
Scheme in 2016, UGC-startup grant for newly recruited faculties in 2014, and international
travel support scheme from SERB (two times in 2017 & 2013. She has published more than
100 research articles including sixty international/ national refereed articles in different Scopus,
Web of Science, and UGC-care listed journals, 45 chapters in edited book volumes, and 03
authored/edited books in the fields of plant ecology, restoration ecology, and conservation
biology. Earlier, she worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi from May 2013 to June 2024 and also as an
Assistant Professor (on contract) from August 2012 to May 2013. She completed one year and
one month of her post-doctoral research in the Department of Environmental Science, Tezpur
University, Assam as a DBT-Research Associate (I & II), and a Guest Lecturer in the
Department of Forestry, NERIST (Deemed University), Arunachal Pradesh for one semester
after the submission of her Ph.D. thesis. She had also worked as JRF (two years) and SRF (one
year one month) in a DBT, New Delhi, Govt. of India sponsored research project in the
Department of Forestry, NERIST (Deemed University), Arunachal Pradesh. She participated
in the Inaugural Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative Conference & Joint GFBI-FECS
Symposium on Forest Research in the Big Data Era organized by GFBI, USA, and Beijing
Forestry University held at Beijing Forestry University, China in September 2017, and 1st
International Scientific Symposium on Agarwood (ISSA) on ‘Agarwood in the New Era’
organized by Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia during September 2013.
Besides, she has participated in different international/ national/ regional/ state level seminars/
conferences/ webinars in India with invited talks/ panellists/ oral presentations/ sessions
chaired/ co-chaired/ rapporteur.

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