Dr. Pritish Chakravarty

Postdoc
Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies

Main Focus

Pritish Chakravarty is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. He is an engineer interested in motion measurement and analysis applied to the study of animal behavior and ecology.

His current work focuses on studying sleep using accelerometer data collected from a number of animal species living in the wild. Other ongoing and past work includes: flight dynamics in migrating birds (MPI-AB); perception and motion in fish (University of Cambridge); foraging in meerkats (EPFL; UZH); movement patterns of leopard tortoises (EPFL; UZH).

Prior to his PhD, he worked in biomedical engineering: tissue analysis using 3D models reconstructed from MRI scans (Lausanne University Hospital; Stanford University); point-of-care blood diagnostics using fluid focusing in microchannels (IIT Bombay).


Curriculum Vitae

Academic Positions

  • 2022- : Postdoctoral Researcher in animal sleep analysis, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany
  • 2021-22: Postdoctoral Research Associate in modeling the effects of visual noise on foraging in fish, Marine Behavioural Ecology Group, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 2020-21: Postdoctoral Forschungskredit Fellow in energetics and foraging in meerkats, Population Ecology Group, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
  • 2015: Visiting Student Researcher in tissue analysis using MRI, Stanford BioMotion Lab, Stanford University, USA
  • 2014: Summer Intern in tissue analysis using MRI, Swiss BioMotion Lab, Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, Switzerland
  • 2012-13: Research Assistant in fluid flow in microchannels, Microfluidics Lab, Indian Institute of Bombay, India


Education

  • 2015-20: Ph.D. in measurement and analysis of animal behavior using inertial sensors, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2013-15: M.Sc. in Bioengineering (minor in Biomedical Technologies), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2008-12: B.Tech. (Hons) in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India


Blogposts

3. Biomechanically aware behavior recognition using accelerometers

2. The Sixth Bio-logging Symposium, Konstanz: Through the eyes of an engineer, part II

1. The Kalahari: Through the eyes of an engineer

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