Faizee Ali Khan
BS-MS STUDENT
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
I am majorly interested in biogeography and evolutionary ecology. I want to understand the drivers of speciation, species distributions, and community assembly. My current research interests started as I stayed in various parts of India while growing up and traveled to many protected areas. I became curious about the diversity of life and how the patterns and processes in ecology shape it. I have previously worked on spiders, tigers, and population dynamic models while exploring the fields of community assembly, behavior, and theoretical ecology. This was through summer internships and semester projects at IISER Tirupati and IISc. After all this exploration, I got fascinated by change and how it accumulates over generations, communities, and entire land masses, resulting in the biodiversity we see around us. Through my research in the long term, I want to understand the factors shaping species distributions and evolutionary trajectories. For my master's thesis, I am looking at partial migration and biogeographic patterns with phylogenetic and distributional perspectives. First, I am investigating the biogeography and partial migration of the Grey-Headed Canary Flycatcher. I am working on the evolution of migratory behavior and the current distribution of the species, which is a mix of sedentary and migratory populations. Second, I am exploring the aspect of elevational migration through birds in the Nilgiris(Western Ghats). Here, I aim to determine the degree of seasonal altitudinal shift(elevational migration) in select birds and compile it with ecological and environmental factors to understand elevational migration in this landscape. Projects involved: Biogeography PERSONAL AND OTHER INTERESTS:
When not working in the lab or field, you can find me climbing trees, doing parkour, and philosophizing. I enjoy reading absurdist fiction and watching Peppermint Butler. I like learning about different cultures through people and food. I am also learning to play the flute. I am a big herpetophile, too. 
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