Our Team

The Green Concet was founded by Dr. Rohan Shetti, Dr. Aboli Kulkarni, and Dr. Girish Kulkarni, experts in Landscape Ecology, Ecosystem Dynamics, and Environmental Analytics. Our team has since grown to include a diverse group of ecologists, botanists, environmental scientists, wildlife and conservation specialists, environmental engineers, and interns.

Dr. Rohan Shetti (PhD)

Greifswald University, Germany

Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Dynamics

Experienced in restoration ecology from US Europe and India
Carbon Assessments and project design in India and Europe
Environmental Ethics, ESG and Sustainable Policy
Vegetation response to climate change in the tropics and temperate ecosystems
Environmental Analytics and Modelling

Dr. Aboli Kulkarni (PhD)

Agharkar Research Institute, Pune

Max Planck Institute, Germany

Vegetation Ecology, Biodiversity and Carbon Assessments

CII certified professional in Carbon footprint.
Carbon sequestration assessments of forests
GIS and Species Distribution Modelling (SDM)
EIA and Biodiversity reporting
Plant taxonomy and Ecology
Expertise in Ecology of Western Ghats with special focus on vegetation modelling

Dr. Girish Kulkarni (PhD),
IIT-Madras, IISER Pune and Heinrich Heine University, Germany

Mathematics, Data Science and Machine Learning

Data Scientist and Analyst
Certified data analyst
Expert in handling Ecological, Business and Social science data
Post-doctoral researcher in artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning and mathematics.

Our Mentors

Dr Aparna Watve

RLA, IUCN Coordinator
Western Ghats Plants Specialist Group

Dr Mandar Datar

Agharkar Research Institute

Plant Taxonomy and Ecology

Our Extended Team and Network

Mrs. Katrien Boonen

PhD student at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (UJEP), Czech Republic. [Doctoral Researcher]

Specialising in dendrochronology, ecology and dendro-chemistry.

Extensive experience in life cycle assessments (LCAs), carbon footprint calculations and the development of models and tools for sustainability evaluation.

Mr. Balachandra Hegde

Conservation Ecologist and Doctoral Researcher

Balachandra is an environmental scientist working on Microclimate Research, forest growth, and nature conservation. His research addresses human-wildlife conflict and the role of non-timber forest products (NTFP) in community ecology in Karnataka.

Mr Rahul Prabhukhanolkar

GSS College, Belgaum
Bat Ecology, Environment management, Sustainability, Conservation, Policy
EIA and Biodiversity Assessment
Bat Ecology – Diversity, distribution, Acoustics,
Green Audits
Founder member – Makerspace, Belgaum and Science Hack Day India.
Sustainable tourism management

Dr Rutuja R Kolte

Plant Ecology, Biodiversity, Ethnobotany and plant-animal interaction and community conservation

• Angiosperm Taxonomy
• Expertise in the ecology of Western Ghats special focus on endemics of rock outcrops
• Member of IUCN - Western Ghats Plant

Specialist Group
• PBR (People’s Biodiversity Register)

Ms. Deepal Mishra

Intern

Deepal is exploring innovative approaches to employ data science using R, Python and machine learning techniques for ecological data from the Rockoutcrop ecosystems from the Western Ghats of India