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Dr. Sileesh Mullasseri
Sileesh Mullasseri (born April 1984) is an Indian researcher in atrala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies Cochin, he Hs haspertise in Zoology, Ecology, Marandology. His research area is Deep-sea Ecology & Fishery Stock Assessment of Southern and Central Indian Ocean, and he has hands on experience in research expeditions. . Sileesh Mullasseri is a collaborator of fishbase (Code No. 2518.). He is a science writer colwho collaborates 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. He pursued his doctoral degree in marine biology from the 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 founding Vice Chancellor of Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS).

Research
Since 2014, Sileesh Mullasseri has been involved in research in deep-sea ecology. He was worked with a research program funded by the Centre for marine living resources and ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, thT research titled Biology, resource characteristics and stock assessment of deep-sea fin fishes and prawns of the southern and central Indian Ocean. He also contributed significant research outhapuwasublished in leading journals. In 2018, he published a research article "Stitled pecies 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 iswaa 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 Modelling, R Programming and Science Wrwritinglso contributed a good deal of news article in the multidisciplinary journal, Current Science. The other works he contributed is Quaequantitative measuref diversity of fithe finsh population in Poonthura estuary, Kerala.