Prosanta Chakrabarty
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Prosanta Chakrabarty

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Dr. Prosanta Chakrabarty is the George H. Lowery Jr. Professor and Curator of Fishes at the Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University. He is also a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C and the Canadian Museum of Nature in Canada. He is a systematist and an ichthyologist studying the evolution and biogeography of fishes; his work has taken him to more than thirty countries around the world (including the Galapagos, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Taiwan, Madagascar, Panama and Kuwait). He has described over a dozen new species to science and published more than 100 scientific papers and several books. He grew up in New York City, his undergraduate degree is from McGill University in Montreal (the city where he was born) and his PhD is from the University of Michigan. He is a former Program Director at the National Science Foundation, an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a TED Senior Fellow. and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair. Read more about him at www.prosanta.org and follow him on Twitter @PREAUX_FISH
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