Sinchan Ghosh

Biography

Sinchan Ghosh is a zoologist turned ecological modeler. His main areas of focus include model building and simulation of wildlife populations. The primary objective of his current research is to help preserve nature and advance the theoretical understanding of natural systems. At IIASA, he models and simulates moose, red deer, and roe deer population dynamics in Swedish and Norwegian forests. Before joining IIASA, he focused on migratory birds' behavior and population dynamics, as well as wild dog, fish, insect, and zooplankton populations. In addition, as part of his research, Ghosh analyzed cancer cells from an ecophysiological perspective. One common property of his modeling approach is that his models are primarily based on both individual and population-level behaviors from a holistic perspective.

As part of his scientific work, he has collaborated on numerous projects navigating the intersection of behavioral science, ecology, parasitology, and social sciences.

Ghosh mostly works with three programming languages: R, Python, and MATLAB, as well as application-based software such as STELLA, MAPPLE, and QGIS. He is also keen to collaborate with colleagues to learn about new software tools and packages.

Ghosh did his PhD at the Visva-Bharati University, India, while working as a research fellow at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI). In his doctoral thesis, he modeled the changes in seasonal and behavioral niches of Merops philippinus, a long-distance summer migratory insectivorous bird, over the past decade. In this thesis, he devised a bias correction algorithm for the opportunistic records in secondary databases. Following his PhD, he joined the Department of Life Sciences at the Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology as an adjunct faculty member, until he rejoined the ISI Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit as a full-time visiting scientist. As a visiting scientist, he has developed models of plant-herbivore-insect-insectivore communities with elements of system ecology. After working on the research project at ISI for six months, he joined the IIASA Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group as part of an ecosystem modeling project.

Apart from research, he is interested in music, cooking, rock climbing, and calisthenics.


Last update: 04 SEP 2023