Curriculum Vitae
PUNYASLOKE BHADURY as of 10th February, 2023.
Professor and SwarnaJayanti Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Climateand Environmental Studies,
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER Kolkata),(An autonomous institution established by the Ministry of Education, Government of India),
Mohanpur-741246, Nadia, West Bengal, India.
Email: pbhadury@iiserkol.ac.in; pbhadury@gmail.com
Month and Year of Birth- March, 1979.
Educational Background2005- Ph.D., Biological Sciences, Plymouth Marine Laboratory and University of Plymouth,Plymouth, United Kingdom.
2002- M.Sc., Marine Resource Development and Protection, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh,
United Kingdom.
2000- B.Sc. Honours in Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
Professional BackgroundDecember 2021-Present
October 2019-Present
October 2018- Present
August 2017- November, 2022
March 2014- September 2018
June 2014- July 2017
January 2009- February 2014
October 2008- December 2008
March 2006- September 2008

Lead, Centre for Excellence in Blue Economy (CoE-BE),
IISER Kolkata, India.
Professor & SwarnaJayanti Fellow, Department ofBiological Sciences & Centre for Climate andEnvironmental Studies, IISER Kolkata, India.
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Centre for
Climate and Environmental Studies, IISER Kolkata, India.
Head, Centre for Climate and Environmental Studies, IISER
Kolkata, India.
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences,
IISER Kolkata.
Head, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Kolkata.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences,
IISER Kolkata, India.
Scientist-C, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department ofGeosciences (Advisor: Professor Bess Ward), Princeton
University, United States of America.

Peer-reviewed publications (Total-94 including in Marine Pollution Bulletin, Environmental
Science and Technology, Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Hydrology, Applied
Geochemistry, Geoscience Letters, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Frontiers inMicrobiology, Environmental Research, Journal of Materials Chemistry B and BioconjugateChemistry); Book chapters (peer-reviewed)-141

Professional Responsibilities (selected)(a) Writing Team Member, Third World Ocean Assessment of the UN Division for Ocean Affairs
and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS), United Nations (2022-present)(b) Working Group Member, International Network on Soil Biodiversity (NETSOB), Global SoilPartnership, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2021-present)(c) Member, Executive Council, Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON)(2021-present)(d) Vice President, Biogeosciences, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) (2022-present)(e) Coordinator, South Asia Regional Hub on Ocean Acidification (SAROA) (endorsed by GOAON, IOC UNESCO and ICC-IAEA) (2021-present)(f) National Contact Point (India) for the international program Interdisciplinary Ocean Science
for Sustainable Development (IMBeR) (2021-Present)(g) Vice Chair, Regional Advisory Committee, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) (until2022)(h) Panelist, COP26 Glasgow (Ocean and Adaptation and Resilience: Creating and implementing
the enabling conditions for action through science, capacity building, and other cross-cuttingapproaches) (2021)(i) Grant proposal reviewer for FCT Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Portugal),
Department of Science and Technology (India), Department of Biotechnology (India)
Ministry of Earth Sciences (India) and Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research(Japan)
Editorial Responsibilities (selected)(a) Editor, Biogeochemistry of the Coastal Indian Ocean (A book to be published by Springer) (InProgress)(b) Associate Editor, Lithosphere (2023-present)(c) Editor, iScience (2022-present)(d) Editor, PeerJ (2022-present)(e) Editor, Geoscience Letters (2021-present)(f) Associate Editor, Ecological Solutions and Evidence (2020-present)(g) Guest Editor, Early Career Researchers: Environmental Science in South and South East Asia
Environmental Research Letters (ERL) and Environmental Research Communications (ERC)(2021-present)(h) Guest Editor, Metal and Metalloid Pollutants in the Earth’s Environment, Geoscience Letters(2020-2021)(i) Referee responsibilities for numerous leading international journals including Nature Climate
Change and Nature Geosciences.
(j) Reviewer, IPCC and IPBES
Honors (selected)(a) Visiting Professor, UCSI University, Malaysia (2022-present)(b) SwarnaJayanti Fellowship Award (2017-18) in the area of Earth and Atmospheric
Sciences by the Government of India(c) Team Leader, 3rd Indian Arctic Expedition, Government of India, 2010 (WinterPhase)(d) Recipient of the prestigious Department for International Development (DFID)
Scholarship to pursue M.Sc. studies in United Kingdom from 2001-2002
2Research interests
Biological complexity and biogeochemical cycling in coastal ocean such as mangroves, estuariesand lagoons; microbially mediated coastal carbon cycling; eDNA based biomonitoring of coastal
ocean; Taxonomy and rapid biodiversity assessment of marine metazoan phyla from shallow coastal
zones to deep sea; Developing new approaches for tracking anthropogenic pollutants usingmetazoan phyla as bioproxy; nature-based solutions (NbS) and nexus between land-freshwateratmosphere-ocean for coastal ecosystem restoration; Bioremediation of contaminated coastal
ecosystems; Climate adaptation and sustainable livelihood in coastal areas; Blue economy andPolicy Frameworks; Marine ecology research in Global South
Research grants (Ongoing)
Projects encompassing above research interests funded by different agencies including Scienceand Engineering Research Board (SERB, India), DST-NWO Merian Fund (India-Netherlands
Cooperation Grant), Odisha State Council on Science and Technology (India), Wildlife Trust ofIndia (WTI, India), World Wildlife Fund for Nature- India (WWF-India), Nature Environment
and Wildlife Society (NEWS, India), West Bengal Pollution Control Board (India), CIFORIndonesia (Indonesia), WorldFish (Malaysia) and eDNA Collaborative (United States ofAmerica)

Other academic commitments
PhD Researcher (completed)-6; PhD Researcher (Ongoing)-7
Postdoctoral Research Associate-1
BS-MS/Int PhD thesis supervised- numerous
Teaching commitments for BS-MS, Integrated PhD and PhD Programs of IISER Kolkata

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