Dr Yadugiri Tiruvaimozhi

Assistant Professor, Biology

PhD, National Centre for Biological Sciences

Dr Yadugiri Tiruvaimozhi is an ecologist fascinated by plants and their interactions with things around them, especially plant associations with fungal and bacterial partners and enemies in the soil. The primary focus of her research is to understand the consequences of climate change and other anthropogenic stressors such as eutrophication and invasion on plant, microbial and other communities, their interactions, and ecosystem processes they mediate. She is also interested in exploring long-term ecological data to gain insights into various ecological communities, their functioning and responses to factors such as changing climate and land-use patterns.

Dr Tiruvaimozhi’s doctoral work at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, and post-doctoral work at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc, focussed on studying the impacts of global change on plant-microbial interactions using field-based experiments and observations in the Nilgiris in the Western Ghats and Spiti Valley in the Trans-Himalaya. Subsequently, as a Research Associate at the Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF), she contributed to synthesising information on long-term ecological monitoring in India, and exploring ways to use NCF’s long-term ecological datasets to address fundamental questions spanning diverse ecosystems.

Apart from research, she enjoys popular science writing, listening to Carnatic music, and trekking. She has also been a long-time student of Sanskrit, of both literary and technical works.