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Gopal Murali
DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow Evolutionary Ecology · Global Change Biology |
Gopal Murali
evolutionary ecology · animal coloration · global change biology · biodiversity informatics. macroecology · herpetology
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Welcome to my website!
Bio I am an evolutionary ecologist broadly interested in the origin, maintenance, and functioning of diversity spanning individual organism levels to large spatial scales. While I often draw inspiration from reptiles and amphibians—okay, fine, I'm a slightly obsessed (and by “slightly,” I mean “completely, utterly, and unapologetically”)—I balance my scaly passions with research that spans diverse taxa. My work emphasizes a global perspective, leveraging large-scale biodiversity data, advanced modeling, and cross-disciplinary collaboration to tackle ecological and evolutionary questions in our rapidly changing world. In specific, I employ experimental, theoretical, and broad-scale comparative approaches to answer questions in ecology and evolutionary biology — broadly focused on animal coloration and signalling. But I have recently started to investigate how contemporary anthropogenic pressures and climate change are affecting global diversity patterns and underlying processes to inform conservation. Check out the Research tab for further details. I am presently a DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. I was previously a Fulbright-Kalam postdoctoral fellow at the Wiens Lab, University of Arizona, United States, and a PBC postdoctoral fellow at Conservation Biology and Biodiversity Lab, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. I completed my PhD at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM), India, in the Vanasiri Evolutionary Ecology Lab. |
