Education
2006 Doctor of Philosophy, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
2000 Bachelors in Applied Zoology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec.
Professional Positions
2020 – Professor (Full)/Curator of Fishes, Louisiana State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Museum of Natural Science, LA. Named the George H. Lowery Professor in 2022.
2024 – Present NCSE (National Center for Science Education) Board of Directors
2020 – 2021 Fulbright Canada Distinguished Chair in Environmental Science at Carleton University
2014 – 2020 Associate Professor/Curator of Fishes, Louisiana State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Museum of Natural Science, LA.
2016 - Present Research Associate National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
2012 - Present Research Associate, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, NY.
2016 - 2017 Program Director for National Science Foundation (Visiting Scientist, Engineer Program), Systematics and Biodiversity Sciences Cluster in the Division of Environmental Biology, Directorate for Biological Sciences, VA.
2008 - 2014 Assistant Professor/Curator of Fishes, Louisiana State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Museum of Natural Science, LA.
2006 - 2008 Post-doctoral Fellow, American Museum of Natural History, Department of Ichthyology, NY.
Awards & Honors (selected)
2020 Fulbright Distinguished Chair (Ottawa)
2019 Elected Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
2018 Senior TED Fellow; 2016 Class of TED Fellows
2012 Distinguished Young Alumni Award, Macdonald Campus, McGill University
Teaching
Evolution in the Galapagos (Study Abroad)
Academia and Beyond Seminar
Curatorial Methods
Introductory Biology Lab - Instructor of Record, Course-Based Undergraduate Research
College of Science Freshman Seminar, ‘How to be a Scientist’
Teaching Evolution in the Galapagos
Books
Chakrabarty, P. (2023) Explaining Life Through Evolution. MIT Press. ISBN: 9780262546256
Methods in Fish Biology, 2nd Edition (2022) Editors: Stephen R. Midway, Caleb T. Hasler, Prosanta Chakrabarty. American Fisheries Society. ISBN:978-1-934874-61-5
Chakrabarty, P. (2012) A Guide to Academia: Getting into and Surviving Grad School, Postdocs and a Research Job. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN:978-0470960417
Chakrabarty, P., Warny, S., Derouen, V. (2014) Making a Big Splash With Louisiana Fishes. Special Publication of the Occasional Papers of the LSUMNS. ISBN:978-4951-2077-0
Selected Publications (of 100+, click here for full list)
Hart, P.B., Niemiller, M.L., Burress, E.D., Armbruster, J.W., Ludt, W.B., Chakrabarty, P., 2020. Cave-Adapted Evolution in the North American Amblyopsid Fishes Inferred Using Ultraconserved Elements. Evolution 74:936-949
McMahan, C.D., Montejo, C.F., Ginger, L., Carrasco, J.C., Chakrabarty, P., W.A. 2020. Climate change models predict decreases in the range of a microendemic freshwater fish in Honduras. Scientific Reports 10: 1-10.
Burress, E.D., Alda, F. Duarte, A., Loureiro, M., Armbruster, J.W., Chakrabarty, P. 2018. Phylogenomics of the pike cichlids (Cichlidae: Crenicichla) and the rapid evolution and trophic diversification in an incipient species flock. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31: 14-30 [Cover Article]
Chakrabarty, P., Faircloth, B. (co-first), Ludt, W.B., McMahan, C.D., Near, T.J., Dornberg, A., Albert, J.S., Arroyave, J., Stiassny, M.L.J.S., Sorenson, L., Alfaro, M.E. (2017) Phylogenomic Systematics of Ostariophysan fishes: Ultraconserved Elements Support the surprising non-monophyly of Characiformes. Systematic Biology 66 (6): 881-895. [Cover Article]
McMahan, C.D., Montejo, C.F., Ginger, L., Carrasco, J.C., Chakrabarty, P., W.A. 2020. Climate change models predict decreases in the range of a microendemic freshwater fish in Honduras. Scientific Reports 10: 1-10.
Poo, S., Whitfield, S., Shepack, A., Watkins-Colwell, G.J., Bogisich, A., Goodwin, J., Nelson, G., Chakrabarty, P. 2022 Bridging the gap between live collections in zoos and preserved collection in natural history museums. BioScience 72, 449-460. [COVER ARTICLE]
