Insect Communities

Sailee Sakhalkar, Ph.D. student

Born 15th of September 1995 in Mumbai, India.

Education
2013: BSc. in Botany, University of Mumbai, India.
2018: MSc. in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Erasmus Mundus Master’s Course TROPIMUNDO.
Since 2019:  Ph.D. studies in Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Thesis: Altitudinal and latitudinal trends in flower-visitation networks.
Employment

Since 2019: Ph.D. studies in Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

Research and study experience
2015-2016: D.G. Ruparel College, Mumbai. Research intern: Bioactive properties of a halophilic alga.
2017-2018: Indian Institute of Science, India and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Master’s thesis: The effect of host-plant spatial distribution on moth behaviour in the leafflower-leafflower moth mutualism.
2018-2019: Charles University in Prague, Erasmus Traineeship Project: Spatiotemporal patterns in nectar-robbing behaviour on Mount Cameroon
Since 2019: Ph.D. studies in Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.Thesis: Altitudinal and latitudinal trends in flower-visitation networks.