Ebi George Email & Phone Number

As social beings, we have all integrated information from our peers in the small and big decisions we make. At the same time, the way in which I integrate this information and behave in a particular situation will differ from the way in which you behave. My research interest lies in understanding how this interplay between social interactions and individual decisions drives individual and collective behaviour in animal groups, especially in social insects like ants, honey bees and bumblebees.My research is highly interdisciplinary, and I integrate perspectives and tools from behaviour, simulations and (through collaborations) molecular mechanisms. More recently, I have started incorporating social network analysis, particularly community detection, and machine learning based pose estimation to understand the structure and dynamics of social insect colonies.An essential part of my integrative approach to science is collaborations with excellent researchers with complementary skills. During my Ph.D., I established four different collaborative projects with researchers from Germany and the U.S.A. on diverse topics, all of which were successfully completed and resulted in several publications.As a part of Animal Behaviour Live, a fantastic team of seven ECRs from across the globe, I’m also helping to organise events in the field of animal behaviour with inclusivity and accessibility at its core. Our flagship event is an annual online conference (free to attend) which attracted more than 1000 registered participants from around 52 countries each year in the past two editions.I also co-founded and write for an online platform ScienceOut to focus on stories of science and scientists in India. The idea behind the platform is to provide an inclusive coverage of the diverse voices in Indian academia, by highlighting not only research stories (in english and in regional languages), but also the early career researchers (ECRs) behind these stories.Feel free to connect with me to talk about social insects, to start new collaborations, and discuss ways to make science more inclusive and accessible.