Gautam Bhattacharjee
Swami Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya, Tripura, India
Biography
Gautam Bhattacharjee completed his MSc in Zoology from the prestigious institution Visva-Bharati University Shantiniketan, West Bengal India, founded by Rabindranath Tagore. He worked as a Senior Research Fellow in a project of Indian Council of Agriculture and Research, New Delhi, under the guidance of Dr. P S Chaudhuri one of the greatest earthworm scientist of recent times. A detail work on earthworms of Tripura was carried out by him for the first time in Tripura from 1997-2002. During his research work, he reported 21 species of earthworms out of which two species were reported for the first time from Tripura. Beside this an excellent work on reproductive studies of seven tropical earthworms were done by him. He also carried out vermiculture of rubber leaf litters. He received scholarship from Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, New Delhi. At present, he is working as an Assistant Professor of Zoology in a Government Degree College (Swami Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya, Tripura, India) and is engaged with research on earthworms and their coelomic fluid.