Shovonlal Roy

• Shovon is an ecosystem modeller and Professor of Earth Observation and Modelling, specialising in satellite remote sensing and mathematical modelling of marine and environmental systems. He leads interdisciplinary research spanning marine ecosystems, ocean carbon, phytoplankton dynamics, fisheries, harmful algal blooms and eco-evolutionary dynamics. His research has been 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. 
• Shovon is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He has been serving on the editorial boards of several international scientific journals. He is currently Associate Editor  forFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2022 -present) and Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences (2016-present), and an Editorial Board Member for Remote Sensing (MDPI, 2026–present) and Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (MDPI, 2026–present). He previously served as Associate Editor for Remote Sensing for Ecology and Conservation(2014-2017) and  Review Editor for Frontiers in Marine Science (2014-2025). 
• 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 (2025-27); 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) .  These collaborations have developed into joint research and capacity-building activities in sustainable aquaculture, harmful algal bloom monitoring and satellite-based environmental modelling.
• Shovon received international awards and fellowships including the Royal Society International Exchanges Award, Visiting Professorship Awards from Kasetsart University, Thailand and the University of the Philippines Visayas, 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,  He was also a runner-up for the UoR Research Awards for Openness in Research. 
• 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 University of Reading, 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 Modelling, 1st Capiz Fisheries Summit)

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