Pankaj Koparde

About

I am interested in understanding ecological and evolutionary processes underlying life and science-driven conservation research and outreach. I am also involved in various citizen science projects concerning owls and dragonflies.

Employment

• Dr Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University Assistant Professor
  2019 - Present
• MIT Group of Institutions Visiting Faculty
  2018 - 2019
• Salim Ali Center for Ornithology and Natural History Senior Research Biologist
  2017 - 2018
• Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Project Assistant
  2017 - 2017
• Salim Ali Center for Ornithology and Natural History Senior Research Fellow
  2015 - 2016
• Salim Ali Center for Ornithology and Natural History Program Fellow
  2013 - 2015
• MES Abasaheb Garware College Research Assistant
  2011 - 2013
• Salim Ali Center for Ornithology and Natural History Junior Research Fellow
  2010 - 2011

Education

• Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) PhD
  2015 - 2019
• Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology MSC
  2005 - 2010

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (42)

• New data on the distribution of two Coenagrionidae damselflies Ishnura rufostigma rufostigma Selys, 1876 and Aciagrion approximans krishna Fraser, 1921 from Central India
  Natura Croatica 2026 DOI: 10.20302/NC.2026.35.18
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• Redescription of male and first description of female Macromia miniata Fraser, 1924 from the Western Ghats, India (Anisoptera: Macromiidae)
  Oriental Insects 2026 DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2026.2719748
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• First description of the male Megalogomphus flavicolor (Fraser, 1923) from the fringe of Raimona National Park, Assam, India (Odonata: Gomphidae)
  Zootaxa 2026 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5748.2.9
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• Notes on the genus Macromia Rambur, 1842 of Assam, northeast India (Anisoptera: Macromidae)
  Zootaxa 2026 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5793.2.6
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• Western Ghats Odonata Odyssey: Status and Distribution of Odonates of the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot, India
  Biology Bulletin Reviews 2026 DOI: 10.1134/S2079086425601243
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• Two new species of Protosticta Selys, 1885 (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platystictidae) from the Western Ghats, India
  Zootaxa 2025 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5679.4.1
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• Losing the carbon game? Changing face of a tropical smart metro city and its repercussions on carbon sequestration, heat and flood mitigation capacity
  Sustainable Futures 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.sftr.2025.100634
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• The current state of odonatology in India
  International Journal of Odonatology 2025 DOI: 10.48156/1388.2025.1917316
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• Odonata diversity in the timescape of Pune district adjoining the Western Ghats Biodiversity hotspot
  International Journal of Tropical Insect Science 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s42690-024-01418-y
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• Diet of Rusty-spotted Cat Prionailurus rubiginosus (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831) (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai, India
  Journal of Threatened Taxa 2024 DOI: 10.11609/jott.8898.16.5.25129-25136
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