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prof. raghavendra gadagkar kanpur , india * 1993 -rrb- shanti swarup bhatnagar award in biological sciences -lrb- india biologist indian institute of science 28 june 1953 sociobiology , eusociality bangalore , india prof gadagkar.jpg raghavendra gadagkar
 raghavendra gadagkar
raghavendra gadagkar

raghavendra gadagkar is a full professor at the centre for ecological sciences , indian institute of science in bangalore , india , who studies evolution of social behaviour using eusocial insects using `` ropalidia marginata '' , a locally common wasp as a model .
he is currently the president on the indian national science academy .
gadagkar has published over 275 scientific papers and articles in various international journals as well as in indian journals like current science magazine , and the journal of biosciences -lrb- india -rrb- , both published from bangalore .
his most important contribution to the field of evolution of eusociality is the theory of `` assured fitness returns '' which has been verified from empirical data and can be considered as a significant landmark in this field since the seminal work done by w. d. hamilton in 1964 .
over the last three decades he has established an active research group that has contributed towards understanding the proximate and ultimate factors of social evolution in wasps .
some of his opinionated articles on science policy have been controversial , such as his exception to the pay to publish , free to read open access science publishing model .
his first book , `` survival strategies '' , has been translated into chinese and korean .
it uses simple language to explain recent advances in behavioural ecology and sociobiology to a general audience .
he has also written a more technical book , `` the social biology of ropalidia marginata : towards understanding the evolution of eusociality '' , which puts together over twenty years of his research about the evolution of eusociality .
since 2002 he is a non-resident permanent fellow at the german institute wissenschaftskolleg zu berlin .
in 2006 gadagkar became one of the very few indian scientists to be elected as a foreign associate of the national academy of sciences , usa .
he has won numerous awards for his contributions to science research including cross of the order of merit -lrb- germany -rrb- in 2015 and the shanti swarup bhatnagar award in biology in 1993 .
he holds a number of other academic positions .
he is the founding chairman of the centre for contemporary studies , iisc , bangalore .
he is an honorary professor at the jawaharlal nehru centre for advanced scientific research and at the indian institute of science education and research , kolkata .
he is a non-resident permanent fellow of wissenschaftskolleg zu berlin .
he is a chairman of research council for history of science , indian national science academy , new delhi .
he was elected as a member of the german national academy of sciences leopoldina in july 2012 .
in 2004 , gadagkar pioneered the establishment of the centre for contemporary studies in the indian institute of science .
this department is a platform for bringing together the natural and social sciences for a discourse of mutual benefit .
