Manpreet Singh Pandher
Manpreet Singh Pandher is scientist at Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata, India. For more than one and a half decade, he has been working on the identification and documentation of the Trichoptera fauna of the Indian sub-continent, specifically the Indian Himalayas and the Northeast. He has published more than 50 research articles in reputed national and international journals and described more than a hundred new species of caddisflies from the Indian Himalayas and many new records that were earlier reported from Nepal, Bhutan, China, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. He has participated and presented his research work in more than 50 national and international conferences, seminars, and workshops. Dr Pandher has received extramural grants from the SERB-DST; Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and UGC.