Aishwarya is a wildlife biologist, specialised in herpetology. Her enthusiasm for field-based biodiversity surveys shaped her research path. Along with her passion for behaviour-based studies and evolutionary biology, her main focus lies on trophic ecology.
She has travelled across different landscapes of the Southern Peninsular India and the Andaman and Nicobar archipelagos as a student, field assistant, biodiversity council member and research fellow, with a keen interest in working in wildlife and conservation. Her current academic interest focuses on the Eastern Ghats and its understudied and undervalued biodiversity, particularly snakes. She works with a special interest towards documentation and conservation of the lesser-known taxa of these fragmented hillocks.
In the process of grasping the conservational facets of the landscape and its wildlife, she aids in elucidating the complexities of human-wildlife relationships and community-orientated conservational strategies.
Her childhood curiosity about the exotic ecosystems inhabited by dinosaurs and creatures from the African savanna has facilitated in establishing her strategic vision with scientific requirements for conservation of our local biodiversity.
One could say, “She is your friendly neighbourhood ecologist."