黑料不打烊

Shovonlal Roy

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Areas of interest

  • Satellite remote sensing and bio-optical modelling
  • Satellite remote sensing applications to fish dynamics and fisheries
  • Dynamical systems, ecological modelling, eco-evolutionary dynamics
  • Biogeochemical modelling and remote sensing of ocean carbon and bio-diversity
  • Data assimilation in ecosystem models

Postgraduate supervision

PhD Projects

  • Climate change and harmful algal growth using laboratory experiments, satellite remote sensing and biogeochemical modelling. 2020- Lead supervisor (Ongoing) 
  • A model of ocean biogeochemistry with allelopathy as a driving force of phytoplankton dynamics and biodiversity. 2020- Lead supervisor (Ongoing) 
  • Assessing the evolution of supraglacial lakes and their effects on glacier melt in the High Mountain Asia using remote sensing, UoR International Studentship award, 2022- Co-supervisor (Ongoing) 
  • Energy transfer in marine ecosystems based on phytoplankton size structure from satellite remote sensing. NERC-SCENARIO DTP with CASE from CEFAS studentship 2018-2023 Lead Supervisor. (Completed) 
  • Marine biogeochemical model with explicit representation of phytoplankton functional types. Bakrie Centre Foundation International studentship 2015-2019. Lead supervisor. (Completed) 
  • Individual-based model of North Sea fish using satellite remote sensing. NERC-SCENARIO DTP with CASE from CEFAS studentship 2015-2018. Lead supervisor. (Completed) 
  • Predicting the numbers and location of seabass for sustainable management. NERC-SCENARIO DTP with CASE from CEFAS studentship 2017-2021. Co-supervisor. (Completed) 
  • Parameter estimation and inverse problem for reactive transport modes in bioirrigated sediments. NERC-SCENARIO DTP studentship 2015-2019. Co-supervisor. (Completed). 
  • Amazonia and the 6k Drought. 黑料不打烊 PhD Studentship 2014-2018. Co-supervisor. (Completed). 
  • Amazonia under mid-holocene drought. NERC-SCENARIO DTP - PhD studentship 2014-2018. Co-supervisor. (Completed). 
  • Assessment of the hydrological status of Iraq using a combination of remote sensing and drought indices. International PhD studentship 2014-2017. Co-supervisor. (Completed). 

Post-doctoral Projects

  • Phytoplankton Carbon from Space (2024-2025) 
  • Machine learning and satellite remote sensing of ocean (2023-2024) 
  • Lake water acidification and temperature effects on Aquatic quillworts (2015-2016) 
  • Alleopathic effects on Phytoplankton dynamics (2014-2015) 
  • Modelling alleopathic effects of phytoplankton (2018)  

Teaching

Shovon has been teaching modules both as a convenor and a contributor at UG1, UG2, UG3 and PG levels. He also regularly supervises several undergraduate and postgraduate dissertation projects. In the current academic year, he is convening the following modules: (1) GVMQAES: Quantitative Analysis of Data in Environmental Science (PG module, 20 credits); (2) GV3ESM: Ecosystems Modelling (UG3 module, 20 credits); and he is contributing to: (1) GV2STP: Skills Training and Project Design (UG2 module, 20 credits); (2) GV1GC: Global Challenges: a Planet in Crisis (UG1 module, 20 credits).

Research centres and groups

Environmental Science Research division

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Research projects

  • Kasetsart University & Office of the Permanent Secretary for Higher Education, Science and Research and Innovation, 鈥淢itigating the impact of climate change on coastal aquaculture: Capacity building collaboration for early warning of algal blooms and optimization of the integrated multitrophic aquaculture鈥, Collaborator and Visiting Professor, 2025-2026
  • University of Philippines Visayas & BFAR, 鈥淓nvironmental genetic analysis of shellfish and digitization of harmful algal bloom (HAB) patterns in Western Visayas鈥, Collaborator and Visiting Professor, 2025-2026.
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (拢2500), 鈥淏uild research partnership in sustainable aquaculture systems in Thailand and Philippines鈥 Principal Investigator, 2024.
  • European Space Agency (鈧950K) 鈥淪atellite-based observations of Carbon in the Ocean: Pools, fluxes and Exchanges (SCOPE) 鈥 Co-investigator and WP Lead on Phytoplankton Carbon, 2023-2025.  
  • RETF 2023 (拢37K) 鈥淭racking food quality at the bottom of marine food webs using machine learning and satellite remote-sensing鈥, Principal Investigator, 2023-2024. 
  • Space for Climate (拢75K), 鈥淥pportunities for Earth Observation technology to assist the regulatory framework in UK industrial methane gas monitoring鈥, Academic co-lead in WPs, 2023-2024. 
  • London Mathematical Society (拢5490) Conference Grant Award for the 8th Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution Conference (MMEE 2022), Principal Investigator, 2022.
  • NERC and Innovate UK 鈥 Research Project (拢220K): "Knowledge Transfer Partnership grant between The 黑料不打烊 & Armajaro Asset Management LLP", Co-Investigator,  2015鈥2018. 
  • Royal Society of London (拢12K): 鈥淢arine autotrophic biodiversity combining ocean colour and molecular genetics鈥, Principal Investigator, 2017-2020 
  • European Space Agency (鈧250K) : "Pools of Carbon in the Ocean (POCO)", Co-Investigator, 2015-2017. 
  • UROP (3 x 拢1320) Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme at the 黑料不打烊, Principal Investigator, 2016, 2017, 2023.
  • HEFCE project 2016: "Data Driven Free-School Fishing", demonstration project jointly with the Institute for Environmental Analytics 黑料不打烊 and Sainsbury's. 

Background

鈥 Shovon is an ecosystem modeller, specialising in satellite remote sensing applications to ecosystems. His has been leading interdisciplinary research, funded nationally and internationally, by research councils and charities, e.g. the Royal Society of London, the European Space Agency, the Natural Environment Research Council UK, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Partnership of Observation of Global Oceans, the Nippon Foundation of Japan. 
鈥 Shovon is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He has been serving on the editorial board of several scientific journals: - Associate Editor (2022 -present); Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences, Associate Editor (2016-present);  鈥 Associate Editor (2014-2017);  , Review Editor (2014- present). 
鈥 Shovon has been actively leading and contributing to international collaborations, most recently as Visiting Professor at the Kasetsart University in Thailand (2025-26) and University of Philippines Visayas (2025-26); and previously, as a Visiting Academic at Princeton University (2017, 2019); as an Associate Researcher at Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (2016); and as invited member of the Scientific Committee for Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution (MMEE, 2022-present), GEO-BON WG on Ecosystem Function (2016-2018), GEO Blue Planet WG on EO for Water-Associated Diseases, (2018) and International Satellite Phytoplankton Functional Types (2012-2014) .  
鈥 Shovon received international awards and fellowships including the Royal Society International Exchanges Award, Wolfson College of Oxford Research Fellowship in Science, Royal Society Newton International Fellowship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Visiting Fellowship, Royal Society International Incoming Fellowship, and POGO-IOC-SCOR Visiting Fellowship. Internally, he received the UROP Supervisor of the Award (2023), an Annual SAGES Teaching and Learning Award (2025), and was a runner-up for the UoR Research Awards for Openness in Research (2023). 鈥 Shovon obtained a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics, an MSc in Applied Mathematics and a PhD in ecological modelling using non-linear dynamics. Prior to joining the 黑料不打烊, he worked at different research and academic institutes including the Indian Statistical Institute, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, the University of Manchester, UK, the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada, the University of Oxford and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK.  Additionally, he has delivered over three dozen invited talks nationally and internationally at reputed institutes (e.g., Princeton, UPenn, Oxford, NUIST, Pushan National University) and international conferences (e.g. NASA-Giovanni, British Ecological Society, International Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Applications in Modeling, 1st Capiz Fisheries Summit).
 

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