Ankita Mitra

Ankita Mitra

Supporting Team

  • Ph.D. student
  • Department of Forestry and Natural Resources , Purdue University
  • mitra46@purdue.edu

EDUCATION

  • 2018-2020 – Research Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama through US-Israel Binational Science Foundation.
  • 2017-2018 – Project Assistant, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research(CSIR)- Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, India. Topic- “Role of Siderophore Producing Bacteria in Wheat Production, India
  • 2016-2017 – MS in Biological Oceanography, Center for Oceans, River, Atmosphere and land Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Kharagpur, India
  • 2014-2016 – Masters in Ecology and Environmental Science, Pondicherry Central University, India
  • 2011-2014 –Bachelors in Environmental Science, University of Calcutta, India

RESEARCH INTERESTS

To broaden understanding and impacts of climate change effects in forestry using statistical and machine-learning techniques

AWARDS

  • 2020-2021 – Best resource person/Best Speaker Award in various International Seminars on Climate Change and Pandemic Scenario
  • 2019- US-Israel Binational Science Foundation Fellowship
  • 2017 – DST- INSPIRE Fellowship, Government of India2014- Young Scientist Award, Oral Presentation, Center for Oceans and Environmental Science, New Delhi, India
  • 2016 – Gold Medal(First rank in Masters), Pondicherry Central University, India
  • 2014 – Mira Scholarship Award(Second rank in Bachelors), University of Calcutta, India
  • 2013- Poster presentation, International Workshop on Mangrove Conservation, India
  • 2013- Oral presentation, Marine Biotechnology Symposium, Muscat, Oman
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