1. Raghavendra Gadagkar is an honorary professor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, who studies evolution of social behaviour using eusocial insects using Ropalidia marginata, a locally common wasp as a model.
Raghavendra Gadagkar was, from 2014 to 2016, the president of the Indian National Science Academy.
Raghavendra Gadagkar helped established a research group that has examined theoretical predictions, proximate and ultimate factors in the evolution of sociality in wasps.
Raghavendra Gadagkar has written a more technical book, The Social Biology of Ropalidia marginata: Towards understanding the evolution of eusociality, which puts together over twenty years of his research about the evolution of eusociality.
In 2006 Raghavendra Gadagkar became one of the very few Indian scientists to be elected as a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.
Raghavendra Gadagkar has won numerous awards for his contributions to science research including Cross of the Order of Merit in 2015, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biology in 1993 and the TWAS Prize in 1999.
Raghavendra Gadagkar is the founding chairman of the Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore.
Raghavendra Gadagkar is an honorary professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata.
Raghavendra Gadagkar is a Non-resident Permanent fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Raghavendra Gadagkar is a chairman of Research Council for History of Science, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.
Raghavendra Gadagkar was elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in July 2012.
In 2004, Raghavendra Gadagkar helped set up the Centre for Contemporary Studies in the Indian Institute of Science.