Dr Trisha Gopalakrishna
BE, MEM, DPhil
Current positions
Royal Commission 1851 Research Fellow
School of Biological Sciences
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Research interests
I am an emerging early career researcher advancing a research agenda in climate change action (mitigation and resilience) in tropical forests and savanna biomes. I earned my doctorate in 2023 as the Oxford Indira Gandhi Scholar at the University of Oxford. Prior to my doctorate studies, I was an applied scientist at one of the world’s leading environmental NGOs The Nature Conservancy.
I am part of the programming committee of the British Ecological Society (BES) and a core committee member of the The Equity and Diversity for all Genders in Ecology (EDGE) network at the BES.
I have taught undergraduate and graduate levels courses in remote sensing, geospatial analyses and various ecology related topics in the United States of America and the United Kingdom attaining the Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2023.
Currently I am a Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol.
broadly interested in stability and resilience of tropical savannas globally and with a focus in south and southeast Asia. I work at multiple spatial scales using interdisciplinary approaches spanning remote sensing based information and plant functional traits.