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|awards = * [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology|Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award]] in [[Biological Science]]s (1993)
* [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany|Cross of the Order of Merit (Germany)]](2015)<ref>[http://www.india.diplo.de/Vertretung/indien/en/02__Bangalore/00__start/Ordensverleihung.html German Mission in India]</ref>
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'''Raghavendra Gadagkar''' is a full professor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, [[Indian Institute of Science]] in [[Bangalore]], [[India]], who studies [[evolution]] of social behaviour using [[eusociality|eusocial]] insects using ''[[Ropalidia marginata]]'', a locally common wasp as a [[model organism|model]]. He was, from 2014 to 2016, the president of the [[Indian National Science Academy]].

Gadagkar has published over 275 scientific papers and articles in various international journals as well as in Indian journals like [[Current Science]] magazine, and the [[Journal of Biosciences]] (India), both published from [[Bangalore]]. His most important contribution to the field of evolution of eusociality is the theory of "assured fitness returns" which has been verified from empirical data <ref>{{cite book |title=The Social Biology of ''Ropalidia'' |last=Gadagkar |first=Raghavendra |date=November 2001 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |location=Harvard |isbn=978-0-674-00611-9 |pages=400}}</ref> and can be considered as a significant landmark in this field since the seminal work done by W. D. Hamilton in 1964. Over the last three decades he has established an active research group that has contributed towards understanding the proximate and ultimate factors of social evolution in wasps. Some of his opinionated articles on science policy have been controversial, such as his exception to the pay to publish, free to read Open Access science publishing model.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gadagkar|first=Raghavendra|date=2008-05-21|title=Open-access more harm than good in developing world|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=453|issue=7194|pages=450|doi=10.1038/453450c|pmid=18497797|issn=1476-4687|bibcode=2008Natur.453..450G|doi-access=free}}</ref>

His first book, ''Survival Strategies'',<ref>{{cite book |title=Survival Strategies - Cooperation and Conflict in Animal Societies |last=Gadagkar |first=Raghavendra |date=May 2001 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |location=Harvard |isbn=978-0-674-00611-9 |pages=212 }}</ref> has been translated into Chinese and Korean. It uses simple language to explain recent advances in behavioural ecology and sociobiology to a general audience.

He has also written a more technical book, ''The Social Biology of Ropalidia marginata: Towards understanding the evolution of eusociality'',<ref>{{cite book |title=The Social Biology of ''Ropalidia'' |last=Gadagkar |first=Raghavendra |date=November 2001 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |location=Harvard |isbn=978-0-674-00611-9 |pages=400}}</ref> which puts together over twenty years of his research about the [[evolution]] of eusociality.

Since 2002 he is a Non-resident Permanent Fellow<ref>[https://www.wiko-berlin.de/fellows/fellowfinder/detail/9998-gadagkar-raghavendra/ Non-resident Permanent Fellows at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin]</ref> at the German institute Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.<ref>[[Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin|Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin]]</ref>

In 2006 Gadagkar became one of the very few Indian scientists to be elected as a Foreign Associate of the [[National Academy of Sciences, USA]]. He has won numerous awards for his contributions to science research including [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany|Cross of the Order of Merit (Germany)]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Germany's highest civilian honour conferred on Indian professor|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Germanys-highest-civilian-honour-conferred-on-Indian-professor/articleshow/48389783.cms|access-date=9 August 2015|newspaper=The Times of India|date=7 August 2015}}</ref> in 2015, the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award]] in Biology in 1993 and the [[TWAS Prize]] in 1999.<ref name="Prizes and Awards">{{Cite web |url=http://twas.org/opportunities/prizes-and-awards |title=Prizes and Awards |date=2016 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences}}</ref>

He holds a number of other academic positions. He is the founding chairman of the Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore. He is an honorary professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. He is a Non-resident Permanent fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a chairman of Research Council for History of Science, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. He was elected as a member of
the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in July 2012.

In 2004, Gadagkar pioneered the establishment of the Centre for Contemporary Studies <ref>[http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html CCS]</ref> in the Indian Institute of Science. This department is a platform for bringing together the natural and social sciences for a discourse of mutual benefit.

==References==
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* {{cite book|author=Michael L. Lewis|title=Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the Biodiversity Ideal in India, 1947-1997|chapter=Modern Ecology Comes to India|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Bl8s5JCM4UC&pg=PA109|year=2003|publisher=Ohio University Press|isbn=978-0-8214-1540-5}}

==External links==
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* [http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/ragh Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar's home page]
* [http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html CCS]

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