Induja Pavithran – Ecosystem feedbacks

Induja is a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Ehud Meron on the Resilience project titled ‘Community Assembly and Spatial Pattern Formation’. Her research primarily focuses on modeling and understanding ecosystem responses to environmental stress and identifying possible interventions. She investigates phenotypic transitions in plants as a mechanism for stress tolerance. During her Ph.D., she studied critical transitions in complex systems, mainly focusing on early warning signals and scaling relations. She has also developed a diagnostic system for predicting the emergence of oscillatory instabilities in turbulent fluid mechanical systems.