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 by Govt. of India, Fellow Award 2021 and Women Scientist Award (Age Group 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.