Lab of Reconciliation Ecology

Dr. Madhusudan Katti is Director of Science, Technology, and Society and Associate Professor for Public Science in the Department of Integrative Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. His work centers Reconciliation Ecology, which aims to reconcile biodiversity conservation with human wellbeing. An ecologist by training, he engages local communities and the broader public in studying how human activities and histories of colonization and segregation shape the distribution of nature and biodiversity, especially in urban areas, in the context of global climate change. He is also interested in the ethics of ecological research, nature conservation, and of how humans learn to live with other species. He is actively engaged in rethinking and redesigning his own research and the teaching of ecology and conservation biology within a broader framework of decolonizing science.