• Science and Society
• Educational practice
• Nature Awareness for Children

Kaustubh is a biomedical engineer who veered into Biology during his PhD days. He is deeply interested in understanding people’s relationship with nature and their response to the climate crisis.

Prior to joining Azim Premji University, he worked as a teacher in Rishi Valley School, Andhra Pradesh. There he was involved in developing an activity-based curriculum for science teaching in the middle and senior school.  He was also part of the Young Investigator Programme at the National Centre for Biological Sciences.  His post-doctoral training is from the University of California, Irvine and doctorate is from University of Florida.

With other faculty members in the Biology group of the university he has co-authored a free online introductory biology textbook called I Think Biology (https://​ithinkbi​ol​o​gy​.in/). This unique textbook utilises a case-study-based approach with examples from India, that is accessible, self-contained, and prioritises essential capacities over content. He is also the project lead on Tanks of Anekal (https://​tankso​fanekal​.in/), a documentation effort to make data about Anekal’s water bodies open and accessible to all.