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Sileesh Mullasseri
Sileesh Mullasseri (Born 8th April 1984) is an Indian researcher and currently researcher in Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies Cochin, he is with expertise in Zoology, Ecology, Marine Biology. His research area is Deep-sea Ecology, Diversity, Fishery biology of Indian Exclusive Economic Zone, and he have hands on experience in research expeditions. Sileesh Mullasseri is a collaborator of Fishbase (Code No. 2518.). He is a science writer and collaborating as a reporter for STEAM India Reports, which exclusively report research by scientists in India to balance lack of coverage of important Indian research news by international agencies. STEAM India Reports, have been running Science Last

Fortnight, a column to report scientific research in India, in the multidisciplinary journal, Current Science, from March 2016.

Education and Career
He completed his graduation and post graduation in Zoology from SNM College Maliankara, Mahathma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. Currently he pursuing his doctoral degree in Marine biology from School of Ocean Science and Technology, Kerala University of Fishes and Ocean Studies, Cochin, in deep-sea fisheries under the guidance of Prof. B. Madhusoodana Kurup, the founder Vice Chancellor of Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS).

Research
Since 2014, Sileesh Mullasseri has been involved in the research in deep-sea ecology, He was worked with a research program funded by Center for marine living resources and ecology ( https://cmlre.gov.in ), Ministry of Earth Sciences Government of India. He also contributed significant research out puts, published in leading journals. In 2018 he published a research article "Species assemblages and community structure of deep-sea demersal ichthyofauna of the South-eastern Arabian Sea (SEAS) " in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, which is a significant contribution to the quantitative assessment of diversity of deep-sea fin-fishes of Southeastern Arabian-sea. He expertise in the area of Marine biodiversity, Ecology, Ecosystem Modeling, R Programming and Science Writing, also contributed many news article in the multidisciplinary journal, Current Science.

Publications

 * 1) Sileesh, M. S., Alphi, K., Harish, K. C., & Viji, V. (2017). Species assemblages and community structure of deep-sea demersal ichthyofauna of the South-eastern Arabian Sea (SEAS). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 1–7. doi:10.1017/S0025315417001151
 * 2) Viji, V., Harish, K. C., Korath, A., & Sileesh, M. S. (2017). A critical analysis of diet in seventeen deep-sea fishes along the South-eastern Arabian Sea. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 64(2), 17–21. doi:10.21077/ijf.2017.64.2.67233-03	http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJF/article/view/67233/30336
 * 3) Sileesh, M. S., Alphi, K., Fricke, R., Viji, V., Amritha, K.S., & Harish, K. C. (2017). First record of Paratriacanthodes retrospinis Fowler, 1934 (Tetraodontiformes: Triacanthodidae) from the Andaman Islands, northeastern Indian	Ocean. FishTaxa. http://www.fishtaxa.com/index.php/ft/article/view/2-2-3
 * 4) Sileesh, M. S., Alphi, K., Harish, K.C., Viji, V., Aswathy, M.S., & Fricke, R. (2017). First record of Uranoscopus crassiceps (Alcock, 1890)(Perciformes: Uranoscopidae) from off the Arabian Sea coast, south-western India. FishTaxa, 2(1), 28–32.http://www.fishtaxa.com/index.php/ft/article/view/2-1-2/75
 * 5) R Nikki,, Aneesh kumar K V, Kottnis Oxona, Sileesh Mullasseri, K P Deepa, M Rajeeshkumar, M hashim, Maruthadu Sudhakar (2018).A range extension of Diretmoides veriginae Kotlyar, 1987 (Beryciformes: Diretmidae) from the Nicobar Island, India FishTaxa (2018) 3(2): 460-465
 * 6) Kiranya, B., Pramila, S. & Sileesh Mullasseri (2018). The diversity of finfish population in Poonthura estuary, south-west coast of India, Kerala Environ Monit Assess 190: 743. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-018-7094-4
 * 7) Aneesh Kumar K. V., Sileesh Mullasseri, M P Rajeeshkumar., K.K. Bineesh., Hashim Manjebrayakath., Ronald Fricke (2018). New record of Bembradium magnoculum (Actinopterygii: Scorpaeniformes: Plectrogeniidae) from the north-eastern Indian Ocean- Acta Ichthyologica Et Piscatoria. DOI: 10.3750/AIEP/02573
 * 8) Oxona Kottnis, Aneesh Kumar KV, Sileesh M.S, Nikki R, Rajeesh Kumar M. P, Hashim M, Sudhakar M (2019). New record of Owstonia kamoharai endo, liao and matsuura 2016 (Perciformes: Cepolidae) from the northeastern indian ocean. Journal of Regional studies in Marine Science. 33 (2020) 100946, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2019.100946