Akshay Surendra

Akshay is a field ecologist interested in forest management, conservation science, and community ecology. He has previous studied human-wildlife conflict around India’s protected areas, forest recovery from selective logging in the Andaman Islands, bird dynamics in fragmented forests of Western Ghats, and plant-neighbourhood interactions in a Sri Lankan rainforest.

Akshay enjoys teaching, and loves to help students question their priors and develop an intuition for the subject. Besides ecology, he is curious about natural history, science and the human condition. He is visiting Ashoka University this Monsoon 2025 to teach “Fantastic Plants and where we find them (& why)” and “Wrangle and Visualise Data in R”.