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Shermin de Silva

Assistant Professor | Starting July 2022
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@Shermin_deSilva

Research Area

Biodiversity, Ecology, Politics

Education

University of Pennsylvania, 2010, PhD
University of California, Berkeley, BA

About

Joining UBC Geography in July 2022
Cross appointed to the Department of Zoology

I study the behavioral ecology and demography of Asian elephants, and currently direct the Udawalawe Elephant Research Project in Sri Lanka, which I initiated in 2005.

I am also a founder and trustee of EFECT, Sri Lanka, and a member of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission.

My postdoctoral fellowships include the Smithsonian Institution, the College of Life Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, and Colorado State University — in the Department of Fish Wildlife and Conservation Biology.

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Shermin de Silva

Assistant Professor | Starting July 2022
email
launchPronouns: She/Her/Hers
launchTrunks & Leaves
launchUdawalawe Elephant Research Project
@Shermin_deSilva
invisible
Research Areas

Biodiversity, Ecology, Politics

Education

University of Pennsylvania, 2010, PhD
University of California, Berkeley, BA

About

Joining UBC Geography in July 2022
Cross appointed to the Department of Zoology

I study the behavioral ecology and demography of Asian elephants, and currently direct the Udawalawe Elephant Research Project in Sri Lanka, which I initiated in 2005.

I am also a founder and trustee of EFECT, Sri Lanka, and a member of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission.

My postdoctoral fellowships include the Smithsonian Institution, the College of Life Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, and Colorado State University -- in the Department of Fish Wildlife and Conservation Biology.

Shermin de Silva

Assistant Professor | Starting July 2022
email
launchPronouns: She/Her/Hers
launchTrunks & Leaves
launchUdawalawe Elephant Research Project
@Shermin_deSilva
invisible
Research Areas

Biodiversity, Ecology, Politics

Education

University of Pennsylvania, 2010, PhD
University of California, Berkeley, BA

About

Joining UBC Geography in July 2022
Cross appointed to the Department of Zoology

I study the behavioral ecology and demography of Asian elephants, and currently direct the Udawalawe Elephant Research Project in Sri Lanka, which I initiated in 2005.

I am also a founder and trustee of EFECT, Sri Lanka, and a member of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission.

My postdoctoral fellowships include the Smithsonian Institution, the College of Life Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, and Colorado State University -- in the Department of Fish Wildlife and Conservation Biology.