We warmly congratulate Tamal Roy, a postdoctoral researcher associated with the IFishMan, on receiving the Best Poster Award at the Berlin PostDoc Days 2025.
The Berlin PostDoc Days are an interdisciplinary event bringing together postdoctoral researchers from universities and research institutions across Berlin, fostering scientific exchange.
Tamal received the award for his poster entitled “Fisheries can evolutionarily change fish behavior and cognition.” In this work, he demonstrates that fisheries, as a human-induced selection pressure, can affect not only body size but also behavioral and cognitive traits of fish over evolutionary timescales. The study integrates concepts from behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, and cognitive science and impressed the jury with both its scientific quality and clarity of presentation.
Tamal Roy is a behavioral biologist who earned his PhD in Behavioral Ecology from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata. After a postdoctoral phase at Arizona State University, he came to Germany with an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. At the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), and in close collaboration with the IFishMan team, he investigates how size-selective mortality caused by fisheries influences fish behavior and cognition.
We congratulate Tamal on this well-deserved recognition.