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Prof. Satish Chandra Garkoti


Professor Satish Chandra Garkoti (Dr. S C Garkoti ) is a renowned Indian Forest Ecologist and scientist working as professor in School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India. His core research areas are Forest Ecology, Forest Ecosystem Dynamics, Forest Carbon, Plant Ecophysiology, Plant Water Relations, Invation Biology, Nutrient cycling and Forest net primary productivity etc. . He is a field ecologist. He has published hundreds of original research articles many reputed journals. He also has been working on traditional knowledge system of Indian Himalayan System, being the project coordinator of NMSHE a such project of government of India.

He supervised PhD, MPhil and Post Graduate students research as his students of Ecology. He himself is a Student of a very renowned and established ecologist Prof. Surendra Pratap Singh, who is also an INSA fellow.

Current Position
Currently he is serving a second term of Rector of JNU, New Delhi. He was appointed as rector-2 of JNU in March, 2016 in the vice-chancellorship of Prof Mamidala Jagdish Kumar and completed his tenure in 2022. In year 2022 he was again appointed as rector-1 in the vice-chancellorship of prof. Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit.