User:Maromasood/sandbox

About her: Ambika Kamath is a scientist, feminist, community and union organizer, and writer. A smart child who learned reading in a young age from a TV program before attending school. At the beginning she wanted to be a mathematician, but once she entered high school she faced an elegant logic of evolution which she thought can use to make sense of the chaotic nature of the world around us.

Education, Collaboration, research accomplishment, and contribution: Ambika is behavioural ecologist studying movement patterns and socioecological interactions in lizards, spiders, and caterpillars. currently, she is a Miller postdoctoral fellow at the university of California Berkeley, Working with Damian Elias in the Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management. Dr. Ambika Kamath did her PH.D. in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. She is on the Executive Board of UAW Local 5810, the union of postdocs and academic researchers at UC. She believes that every organism has something interesting to teach us about how the world works, cares deeply about transforming the culture of academia in the direction of equity and inclusion, and is very interested in the human elements of the scientific process. She is busy with an ongoing series on doing the work of cultural change towards equity and justice, in academia and beyond. One of her famous work is "Are We Wrong About Territoriality in Anoles Lizards ".