Dr. Mahi Puri was awarded PhD from the University of Florida in 2021. Her doctoral dissertation was titled ‘Prioritizing and identifying opportunities for carnivore conservation in human-dominated landscapes of India’. At CWS, she was mentored by Dr. Krithi K. Karanth and Dr. K. Ullas Karanth. Dr. Puri is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Georgia.