Centre for Ecological Sciences

K A Ponnanna from Karnataka joined IISc as a security guard, but began serving as a field assistant at the Centre for Ecological Sciences and helped mentor students in handling bees and collecting samples for research

Indian professor, Raghavendra Gadagkar from IISc, has been awarded Germany's highest civilian honour - the Cross of Order of the Merit for his work in the field of behavioural ecology and sociobiology.