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1 1 3 CURRICULUM VITAE Name: SANTANU RAY Sex: Male Permanent Position: Professor Department of Zoology Ecological Modelling Laboratory Siksha Bhaban (Science Faculty) Visva Bharati University Santiniketan, Birbhum West Bengal 731235 INDIA Telephone # 0091 3463 261268 Fax # 0091 3463 261268 Address for correspondence: Use address for permanent position or permanent home address E – mail # [email protected] / [email protected] Permanent home address: 166A, Sarat Ghosh Garden Road SHABNAM, 4th Floor, Flat No. 405 Kollkata 700 031, INDIA Telephone # 0091 33 2415 6237 Mobile # +91 9433157701 ------------------- Andrews Pally (Paschim Pally) Santiniketan 731 235, INDIA Citizen: Indian Doctoral thesis title: Ecology of littoral Larval Dipterans (Arthropoda: Insecta) of the Mangrove ecosystem of Sundarban, India. (Supervisor: Professor Amalesh Choudhury) Research and Teaching Experience: 1) 2001 - Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA, worked on the modeling of planktonic system of cold marine environment in association with Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savanah, Georgia and took classes on the aspect of system ecology at postgraduate level in Institute of Ecology (Worked with Prof. Eugene.P. Odum, Prof. Barnard. C. Patten, Prof. Peter. Varity and Prof. Robert. E. Ulanowicz) 2) 2001 (March) - Joined and continuing as Reader (Associate Professor) in the dept. of Zoology, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan 731235, teaching basic and advanced ecology in graduate 2 1 3 and postgraduate levels and also research assignment on model ecology particularly the theoretical aspects and simulation of Sundarban mangrove ecosystem and Hooghly Matla estuarine complex. Collected data on mangrove litterfall and its subsiquent decoposition, data of both phytoplankton and zooplankton and also benthic organisms and some pelagic fishes. 3) 1999 – 2000 - Section of Environmental Chemistry, Royal Danish School of Pharmacy, Copenhagen, Denmark, undertook parameter estimation by optimizing exergy in some models of Danish lakes. (Worked with Prof. Sven Erik Jorgensen) 4) 1996 - 1998 - Department of Theoretical Biology, Czech Academy of Science, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic, undertook simulation modeling of aquatic food chain, food webs and complex biological interactions of lake and estuarine environments by using different computer software such as STELLA, SIGMAPLOT, MATHEMATICA, MATLAB and ECOPATH etc. (Worked with Prof. Milan Straskraba) 5) 1998 – Assistant Professor (Adjunct faculty) Department of Biology, University of South Bohemia (Jhioceska Univerzita), Czech Republic, subject taught - Modeling and simulation in ecology. 6) 1989 – 1995 at the department of Marine Science, Calcutta University, India. and partly at the department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, undertook studies on analytical aspects of deterministic modeling of the food chains and food webs of mangrove and estuarine and marine ecosystem, particularly on the aspects of uniform persistence, local and global stability, diffusion and time lag of detritus and grazing food chains of mangrove ecosystem and also undertook network analysis on Benthic food web of Sundarbans Mangrove ecosystem using software NETWORK, STRUCTURE, ENVIRON. 7) 1982 - 1988 at the Department of Marine Science, Calcutta University, India, undertook studies on population and community ecology of Benthic and pelagic organisms of Sundarban Mangrove ecosystem and estuarine and coastal marine ecosystem, India. Research areas of interest: 1) Process based modeling on mangrove and estuarine system particularly on nitrogen and carbon cycling, grazing and detritus food chains 2) Static modeling particularly the network analysis, Dynamic modeling, and Structural dynamic modeling of any aquatic and mangrove ecosystems. 3) Analytical solution of theoretical model. 4) Integrated Ecosystem theory and optimization of ecological goal function for assessing the organization of the ecosystem. 5) Methodology for automatic parameter calibration. Teaching areas of Interest: 1) Interested in any aspect of ecology particularly on population, community and ecosystem ecology in graduate and postgraduate level. 2) Also interested in any advanced aspect of ecology particularly model and system ecology and ecological complexity in graduate and postgraduate levels and beyond. 3) Interested in bio statistics and quantitative biology at any level. 4) Integrated ecosystem theories and their applications 5) Evolution and its quantitative interpretation Workshops / National and International Seminar attended: 1) Collection and identification of insects and mites; Zoological Survey of India, 1984. 2) Statistical training (ANOVA, Correlation, Regression, Community analysis): central Pollution Control Board, 1985. 3) Frontiers of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1988. 3 1 3 4) First course in computer (programming and mathematics), N. R. Sen Centre for pedagogic and professional mathematics, Calcutta Mathematical Society in association with Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, BARC, Calcutta 1988. 5) Mathematical Model in Biology; Calcutta Mathematical Society, 1990. 6) International course on Ecosystem Theory – Application in Environmental Management of Aquatic Systems; Royal Danish School of Pharmacy, Copenhagen, 2000 7) UGC-DSA National Seminar on Environmental and Fish Biology – 1 February to 3 February, 2002, Department of Zoology, Visva-Bharati (Act as one of the members of organizing committee) 8) National Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics (NCAMP XIV) – 27 January to 31 January, 2003 – Physics Department, Visva-Bharati (Act as one of the members of organizing committee) 9) Innovative Teaching in Science – 5 November, 2003, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, 2003 (Act as one of the members of Organizing committee) 10) 12th National Conference on Aerobiology – 9 November to 11 November, 2003, Department of Botany, Visva-Bharati (Act as one of the members of organizing committee) 11) 23rd Symposium on Reproductive Biology and Comparative Endocrinology – 7 February to 9 February, 2005, Department of Zoology, Visva-Bharati (Act as one of the members of organizing committee) 12) International Conference on Ecological Modelling – 28 August to 1st September, 2006, Yamaguchi University of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Yamaguchi, Japan. 13) National Seminar on Environmental and Sustainable Development – 17 March, 2007 to 18 March, 2007, Department of Environmental Sciences, Sambalpur University, Jyoti Vihar, Orissa. 14) International Conference on Environmental and Ecological Statistics with Applications – 21 March, 2007 to 23 March, 2007, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. 15) National Symposium on Comparative Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology : Insights and Challenges – 26 November to 28 November, 2007, Department of Zoology, Visva-Bharati (Act as one of the members of Organizing committee) 16) European Conference on Ecological Modelling – 27 November to 30 November, 2007, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. 17) National Symposium on Dimensions of Animal Science Researches and Human Need – 7 September to 9 September, 2009, Presidency College, Kolkata. 18) National Symposium on Theoretical and Mathematical Biology – 10 October to 11 October, 2009 – IISER, Pune. 19) National Symposium on Impact of Climate Change on Aquatic Ecosystems – 18 February to 19 February, 2010 – Cochin University of Technology and Science, Cochin, Kerala 20) Biodiversity and its conservation - 5 March to 6 March, 2010 – P G Department of Zoology, Jamshedpur Women’s College, Jamshedpur. 21) Workshop and Symposium on Mathematical Ecology – IISER, Kolkata, 14 December 2010. 22) National Seminar on Science and Nature : Tagore’s vision and its relevance –12 March – 13 March, 2011, Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Saniniketan 23) One day seminar on ecological modeling – 7 January, 2011 – Graduate School of Engineering, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Japan. 24) Climate change: A dagger in disguise affecting Biodiversity, Department of Zoology, Triveni Devi Bhalotia College, Raniganj, Burdwan-713347, West Bengal, January 27 – 28, 2011 25) Editorial training workshop for the journal editors nationwide (participated as keynote speaker) – 16 June 2011 - China population resources and environment, Qingdao, China, 15 June, 2011. 26) International conference on mangroves for coastal area management – 7August to10 August 2011 - M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India. 4 1 3 27) The 18th Biennial conference of International Society for ecological modeling for global change and coupled human and natural systems, Beijing, China – 20 September to 23 September, 2011. 28) Recent trends in zoology with special emphasis on animal diversity, fisheries and genetics, Kulti College, Kulti, Burdwan, November 28 – 29, 2011. 29) Impacts of climate change on mangrove ecosystem in South Asia, Colombo, Sri Lanka, January 16 – 18, 2012. 29) Biodiversity : Threats and Conservation through Traditional and Biotechnological Approaches, Dum Dum Motijheel College, Dum Dum, Kolkata, 4 – 6 February, 2012. 30) Ecosystem and biodiversity: Bank of natural, The Graduate School, College for Women, Jamshedpur, March 27, 2012. 31) Biodiversity and sustainability vis-à-vis economic development in the Northern parts of West Bengal, Raiganj Surendranath Mahavidyalya, Raiganj, Uttar Dinajpur, 26 – 27 August, 2012. 32) 4th International