Guha Dharmarajan is a veterinarian and disease ecologist, whose research focuses on understanding the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of disease in natural populations. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Veterinary Science and Master’s degrees in Wildlife Science from the Madras Veterinary College, and his PhD in Wildlife Science from the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University. He carried out his postdoctoral research at Purdue and subsequently moved to the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). Following his postdoctoral research, he worked as a Ramanujan Fellow at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata. Before joining Krea, Guha was an Assistant Research Scientist at the Savannah River Ecology Lab, The University of Georgia.
Guha’s research is primarily in the fields of disease ecology and ecosystem health. Specifically, he studies how human-mediated environmental perturbations – global climate change, habitat modification and environmental pollution – affect disease dynamics in human and wildlife populations, and in turn how such altered disease dynamics feedback on ecosystem health by impacting eco-evolutionary processes at the individual, population and community scales.
Guha loves to teach, and has taught students at four institutions in India and the US (IISER-Kolkata, Krea University, Purdue University and the University of Georgia). At Krea, he teaches Scientific Reasoning, Biostatistics, Ecology and Conservation Biology, and Global Change Biology.
In his free time, Guha enjoys listening to a wide diversity of music from Hindustani Classical to Jazz. He also loves to read a broad array of fiction and non-fiction, but his favourite genre is epic fantasy.
Disease Ecology and Ecosystem Health
Scientific Reasoning
Biostatistics
Ecology and Conservation Biology
Global Change Biology
