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Jithu Unni Krishnan

Kerala Forest Research Institute

ORCID iD 0000-0002-7041-6664
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Dr. Jithu U. Krishnan, Scientist-B, Department of Forest Entomology, holds a decade-long experience in insect ecology, insect ethology, toxicology, and pest management. His Ph.D. work secured distinct recognition in the WCRT Consortium held in China, 2019. He was instrumental in the generation of an Institutional patent (patent no: 368943, date of award: June 2021), along with a filed patent (pfr. no. 208/che/2012). His research and academic communications include 17 International and national articles, conference proceedings, and a book. He was selected as the only KSCSTE-Post Doctoral fellow in life science for the year 2017-18. He also worked as UGC-DS-Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Ecological Science, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He received many International and National awards for his research excellence. He is a member and peer of the Root Crops society, Indian Society for evolutionary biologists, Citizen Science Association, USA., WWF., etc.

Focused areas:
Research interests range broadly in Entomology, Insect Ethology, Chemical ecology, Social behaviour, Evolution of sociality, Trophic interactions, Taxonomy of Coleoptera and Hymenoptera, Toxicology, and Compound characterization studies.

He is actively participating in many outreach programs of both government and non-government organizations including many societies that work for the benefit of science education.

Academics and profession:

Education:

 Ph.D. Zoology (ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute affiliated to University of Kerala) [2017]
 M.Sc. Zoology from the University of Kerala [2012]; (CSIR-UGC, JRF/NET-AIR-15; GATE-AIR-213)
 D.CA. Software from Lal Bahadur Shastri Centre for Science and Technology, Gov. of Kerala [2012]
 B.Sc. Zoology from the University of Kerala [2009]

Projects and positions handled:

 Worked as Asst. Professor at Mar Ivanios College (autonomous), Trivandrum till 2022.
 Worked as UGC-DS-KOTHARI Post-Doctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) till Sep 2021
 Handled many UG and PG Research projects with Taxonomy-Teaching assistantship in IISc.
 Worked as KSCSTE Post-Doctoral fellow at IISc. in the year 2018
 Handled KSCSTE, RKVY and ICAR institute projects during Ph.D.

Employment

  • Kerala Forest Research Institute Scientist-B
    2022 - Present

Education

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Publications (26)