About ABHIJIT MITRA
Dr. Abhijit Mitra, is presently serving Techno India University, West Bengal as the Director of Research. He obtained his Ph.D as NET qualified scholar in 1994 after securing Gold Medal in M.Sc from University of Calcutta. Since then, he joined Calcutta Port Trust and WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), in various capacities to carry out research programmes on environmental science, biodiversity conservation, climate change and carbon sequestration. He has to his credit about 750 scientific publications in various National and International journals, and 62 books of postgraduate standards. Dr. Mitra is presently the member of several committees like PACON International, IUCN, SIOS etc. and has successfully completed about 21 projects on biodiversity loss in fishery sector, coastal pollution, alternative livelihood, climate change and carbon sequestration. Dr. Mitra also visited as faculty member and invited speakers in several foreign Universities of Singapore, Kenya, Oman and USA. In 2008, Dr. Mitra was invited as visiting fellow at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, USA to deliver a series of lecture on Climate Change. Dr. Mitra also successfully guided 61 Ph.D students. Presently his domain of expertise includes environmental science, mangrove ecology, sustainable aquaculture, alternative livelihood, natural resource management, blue economy, climate change and carbon credit. For more information click: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abhijit-Mitra-4 and https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhijit-mitra-20750056/.