Tanaya Nair

Tanaya (she/her) is an ecologist and artist from India. Her research interests in biodiversity resilience and nature recovery expand across scales (from fine scale to macro scale) and biomes. She is reading a DPhil in Geography and Environment at University of Oxford on a project that characterises microclimates in mixed tree and grass ecosystems in India and Africa to better understand how we can manage these vulnerable landscapes and the species that inhabit them.

Tanaya is most herself when she is outdoors looking for birds and plants, hovering over a coral reef with a magnifying glass, or walking long distances across forests and grasslands. She is actively researching and workshopping how art and science can come together to roll out research more meaningfully and urgently in the world.