Amitabh Joshi

Amitabh Joshi
Amitabh Joshi
Born	4 March 1965; Agra, India
Alma mater	Delhi University; Washington State University; University of California, Irvine;
Known for	Studies on Population genetics; Quantitative genetics; Evolutionary genetics; Population ecology
Awards	2009 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize; 2010 LSA-IIM Lucknow National Leadership Award;
	Scientific career
Fields	Evolutionary biology; Genetics;
Institutions	Washington State University; Indian Institute of Science; Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research; Berlin Institute for Advanced Study;
Doctoral advisor	John N. Thompson; Michael E. Moody; Laurence D. Mueller;

Amitabh Joshi (born 1965) is an Indian evolutionary biologist, population ecologist, geneticist and a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR). He heads the Evolutionary Biology Laboratory at JNCASR and is known for his studies on Evolutionary genetics and Population ecology. An elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India, and Indian National Science Academy, he was also a J. C. Bose National Fellow (2011-2021) of the Department of Science and Technology. He served as the Chief Editor of the Journal of Genetics (2008-2014) and Editor of Publications of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2017-2021). The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2009, for his contributions to biological sciences.

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