Department of Science and Technology
Agharkar Research Institute
AGHARKAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Name : Radhakrishnan Cheran

Designation : Project Associate, Ph.D.Student

Brief Background :

I completed Bachelor of Zoology at Bishop Heber college, and Masters in Environmental Science from Bharathidasan University,Tiruchirappalli, TamilNadu.After my Master’s I was interning with Wildlife Conservation Society and ATREE. Currently I am pursuing my Ph.D.with Dr. Karthick Balasubramanian ARI, Pune affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune.

Contact Details :

radha.cheran@gmail.com, rcheran@aripune.org

  • B.Sc. Zoology (Bishop Heber college, Bharathidasan University)

  • M.Sc. in Environmental Science & Technology (Bharathidasan University)

Diatom taxonomy, Water quality, Diatom ecology, Biodiversity conservation, Environmental pollution.

  1. Radhakrishnan, C., Das, S. K., Kumar, V., Kociolek, J. P., & Karthick, B. (2020) A new freshwater Gomphonema Ehrenberg (Bacillariophyta) species from Eastern Himalayas, India. Fottea, Olomouc, 20(2): 128–136
  2. Lokhande, V., Radhakrishnan, C., Kociolek, J. P., Lowe, R., & Karthick, B. (2020). The diatom genus Luticola DG Mann (Bacillariophyceae) in the Western Ghats of India and its biogeography. European Journal of Phycology, 1-17.
  3. Das, S. K., Radhakrishnan, C., Kulikovskiy, M., Glushchenko, A., Kociolek, J. P., & Karthick, B. (2020). Pinnulariasikkimensis nov. (Bacillariophyceae), from Eastern Himalayas and its distribution in Southeast Asia. Phytotaxa, 447(3), 163-175.
  4. Radhakrishnan, C., Kulikovskiy, M., Glushchenko, A., Kuznetsova, I., & Karthick, B. (2020). A First Finding and Morphology of the Neglected Diatom Genus Pseudostaurosiropsis from Anthropogenically Impacted Urban Lake in India. Inland Water Biology, 13(2), 170-177.
  5. Roy, S., Radhakrishnan, C., Taylor, J. C., Kulikovskiy, M. S., & Karthick, B. (2020). Encyonemakeshrii, sp. nov.: a new diatom species (Cymbellales, Bacillariophyceae) from the Indian subcontinent. Cryptogamie, Algologie, 41(2), 7-17.
  6. Radhakrishnan, C., Pardhi, S., Kulikovskiy, M., Kociolek, J. P., & Karthick, B. (2020). Naviculawatveae nov. (Bacillariophyceae) a new diatom species from the Western Ghats, India. Phytotaxa, 433(1), 20-26.
  7. Radhakrishnan, C., Kulikovskiy, M., Glushchenko, A., Kuznetsova, I., Kociolek, P., & Karthick, B. (2018). Oricymbasagarensis (Gandhi) comb. nov., an endemic diatom from the Western Ghats, India. Phytotaxa, 382(3), 267-274.
  8. Das, S. K., Radhakrishnan, C., Kociolek, J. P., & Karthick, B. (2018). Three new species of Gomphonema Ehrenberg (Bacillariophyta), from Eastern Himalayas, with a note on the unique girdle band structure. NovaHedwigia, Beihefte, 359-372.