Shruthi Gopirajan Andaladi Thekkethil, M.Sc.

Doctoral student
Research group “Sylvanus – Increasing resilience and reducing trade-offs during forest transformations”
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Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
Postfach 3640
76021 Karlsruhe

Current positions

Doctoral student at ITAS with DAAD scholarship

Fields of work

Vulnerability and adaptation of socio-ecological systems
Forest fire ecology
Social forestry
Post-fire restoration and adaptation
Regional focus: Western Himalayan Region (Uttarakhand, India)

Current projects

Dissertation “Assessment of pre-fire vulnerability and post-fire adaptation measures in the forests of the Western Himalayas: A socio-ecological study on the large forest fire of 2016 in Uttarakhand, India”

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Professional background

since 2022	Doctoral student at ITAS
2021 - 2022	Analyst at the Indian PAC Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, Telangana, India
2021	Research associate - Geography at the Acadecraft Pvt. Ltd., Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
2018 - 2019	Research internship at the Indira Gandhi Conservation Monitoring Centre (IGCMC) of WWF - India Secretariat, New Delhi, India
2018 - 2020	Master degree (M.Sc.) in Environmental Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
2015 - 2016	Undergraduate research fellow at the University of Delhi, Innovation Project “Comparative Genomics of Dengue Virus to Explore Potential Candidates for Novel Vaccine Targets”
2015 - 2018	Bachelor degree (B.Sc.) in Life Sciences at the University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

Selected publications

Gopirajan, A. S.; Kumar, P.; Joshi, P. K. (2021)
Unraveling the complex and dynamic Himalayan socio-ecological systems: a systematic review. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-28
doi: 10.1007/s10668-021-01527-5

Gopirajan AT, S.; Kumar, P.; Chauhan, N.; Joshi, P. K. (2020)
Influence of socio-environmental risks on natural resource-dependent socio-ecological systems in Central Himalaya. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 1-20
doi: /10.1080/10807039.2020.1861427

Publications

2023

Posters

Andaladi Thekkethil, S. G.; Fassnacht, F. E.; Schmidtlein, S.; Joshi, P. K.; Saha, S.
Post-fire recovery assessment for fostering socio-ecological resilience in the Western Himalayan Region
2023. International Symposium on Intersectoral Cooperation for Resilient Landscapes, International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) and the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) (2023), Dehradun, India, March 29–30, 2023