Madhuri Ramesh has a PhD in Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies from the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE) and Manipal University. At present, she teaches in the School of Development, Azim Premji University. Her research focuses on the politics of biodiversity conservation and she is interested in working with projects that involve inclusive forms of resource management. She also suspects scientific writing would improve if researchers read more comics and is busy testing this hypothesis.