Achyut Kumar Banerjee

I am a plant ecologist with Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Botany from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata. I work in the domain of Biological Invasion, one of the main components of global change. My research aims to understand the dynamics of the invasion process, starting from the introduction of an organism into a new environment to its ability to cross different barriers to become an invasive species. In line with the interest of my postdoctoral research group, I also worked on the phylogeography of several mangrove species distributed in the Indo-West Pacific region.

My studies are focused on countries of the Global South and provide practical and easy-to-implement – a) management measures for the invasive species and b) conservation insights for the threatened mangrove taxa. I have published 42 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals.

I love reading books (with a bias for historical nonfiction) and capturing the natural world (with a bias for flower and macro photographic genres).

January 2025