Rate My Professor Arjun Amar

Associate Professor Arjun Amar is a faculty member in the Faculty of Science at the University of Cape Town, where he serves at the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Zoology from Newcastle University and a PhD from the University of Aberdeen, awarded in 2001. His academic career includes postdoctoral research with the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust on hen harrier conservation and red grouse shooting conflicts, a position with the US Fish and Wildlife Service studying the critically endangered Mariana Crow on the Pacific island of Rota, and six years as a Senior Conservation Scientist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in the UK and Scotland before joining the FitzPatrick Institute in 2010.

Arjun Amar is an avian conservation biologist whose research focuses on understanding the processes that regulate animal distributions, demography, and population dynamics, with particular emphasis on raptor conservation and the causes of population declines in birds. His work has addressed human-wildlife conflicts, including the raptor-gamebird conflict, and has involved studies on raptors, waders, passerines, upland birds, woodland birds, and tropical species. He has served as an associate editor for the journal Ibis since 2008 and received the UCT College of Fellows Young Researcher Award in 2015. He leads a research group at the institute and supervises doctoral and master's students on topics such as crane populations, climate change impacts on bird cycles, and related conservation issues.