PhD Students

Pan Wuyuan received his Master’s degree in 2020 from Wuhan University, under the guidance of Prof. LU Xin. His previous research works were about the cooperative breeding in the Ground Tit (Pseudopodoces humilis); his master thesis was titled as “An analysis for heritability of helping behavior of Tibetan ground tits Pseudopodoces humilis in Changdu, Tibet”. He has also worked on conservation of the Baer’s Pochard (Aythya baeri). Wuyuan started his PhD in our group in September 2020 under the guidance of Prof. Goodale.

Shivish BHANDARI has graduated in 2014 from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. His Master's degree research was relating to tiger’s food analysis in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. He also has work experience in prey-predator interaction, habitat, and conservation threats analysis of some large predators such as tigers, leopard, and hyena. The conservation approach for those predators was additional. He is interested to work in community ecology and ecological modeling. His Ph.D.

Wambura Mashauri MTEMI completed his bachelor degree in Agronomy at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania in 2015. In 2016, he started a Master’s degree in Natural Resources Management at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway and graduated in 2018. His master thesis was titled as “The Accumulation of Trace Metals in Rodent Tissues along the TAZAMA Pipeline and TANZAM Highway in Mikumi National Park (MINAPA), Tanzania”. He is interested in conservation biology, ecology, as well as environmental toxicology.

Kamal Raj GOSAI earned his Master's degree in Environmental Science in Biodiversity Conservation and Management at Khwopa College, Nepal in 2009, and holds an Assistant Professor position at Tribhuvan University of Nepal. In his previous work, he has studied wildlife rehabilitation and ecotourism development, and has worked on  herpetofauna and large water birds of Nepal, especially the Sarus Crane (Grus antigone antigone).

LIU Shilong graduated from Shangqiu Normal University in July 2017, with the title of excellent graduate. He started his MSc at GXU in September 2017 under the guidance of Associate Prof. Aiwu JIANG. He has been involved on projects measuring heavy metals in birds, and looking at the behavioral effects of this pollution exposure. In September 2019, he advanced his study program to pursue a PhD degree. His e-mail is: 15090690023@163.com.

Estelle MEAUX is broadly interested in social behavior. She received her Master’s degree in 2015 from the University of Strasbourg, France and she started her PhD in our group in September 2017. Her previous research works, conducted at the University of Vienna and the University of Veterinary Medicine of Vienna, Austria, were related to the field of cooperation and individual behavioral strategies, using both observational and experimental techniques on bird and primate species.

Salindra Kasun DAYANANDA’s main interests are in conservation biology and ecology. He completed his master’s degree at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), under the guidance of Prof. Goodale and Prof. QUAN Rui-Chang. During his Masters, his primary focus was on how the location of forest fragments affected birds (including nocturnal birds) and herpetofauna. During his PhD, guiding by Associate Prof. Christos Mammides, Prof. Goodale, and Prof. Emeritus Sarath W.