Outstanding Researcher Award

Associate Professor SODHI, Navjot S

PhD (Saskatchewan), MSc BSc (Hons) (Panjab)
Conservation and Behavioural Ecology Laboratory
Department of Biological Sciences

Research Interests
  • Conservation Biology
  • Environmental Management and Behavioural Ecology of bird species

Research Achievements
  • highlighted rain forest loss and degradation on South-east Asian fauna
  • developed a novel and cutting-edge model that can more accurately
  • predict the loss of tropical bio-diversity
  • provided guidelines for forest management practices within South-east Asia
  • participated in a multi-disciplinary project that looked into the set up of an islandwide park connector (corridor system)

Research Strengths
  • adopts both descriptive and experimental approaches to single or multidisciplinary questions
  • concentrates on poorly-studied locations and pressing issues

Publication Credits
  • 65 papers published in major international scientific journals including Nature and Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
  • Co-author of A Guide to Urban Creatures (Singapore Science Centre) and Biology of the Cattle Egret (Records of Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper)

Editorial Board Memberships
  • Assigning Editor, Conservation Biology
  • Associate Editor, The Auk
  • Associate Editor, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
  • Member, Editorial Board, Ornithological Science

Contributions to Community
Consultant to several government organisations on environmental impact assessment and bird control management from the perspectives of public health and air-safety in airports

International Standing
sought after by international media such as the New York Times, Associated Press and Reuters as an authority on Asian bird biology and conservation

Awards and Accolades
  • Associate, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 2003-present
  • Charles Bullard Fellowship, Harvard University, 2002

Research Aspiration
to help governments and appropriate agencies achieve conservation goals especially on how habitat loss in South-east Asia has affected native bio-diversity.