Office:

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science Chulalongkorn University
Phayathai Road, Pathumwan
Bangkok 10330, Thailand

Contact Information:

Tel:  02-2185362

E-mail: chawatat.t@chula.ac.th

Teaching/Research Field:

  • Systematics, Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Pollination Ecology of wild bees and pollinators
  • Natural History Museum Management

Research Laboratory/Unit/Center of Excellence:

  • Center of Excellence in Entomology: Bee Biology, Biodiversity of Insects and Mites

Current Research Topics:

  • Systematics, nest architecture and foodplant of ground-nesting bees
  • Diversity of pollinators in urban areas
  • IUCN assessment of Southeast Asian bumblebees

Education:

B.Sc. (Biology) 1st Class Honors 2011-2015 Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

M.Sc. (Taxonomy and Biodiversity) Merit 2016-2017 Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Research training:

Scholarship and awards:

  1. The Best Oral Presentation Award in the 11th Conference on Taxonomy and Systematics in Thailand (2023)
  2. The Best Oral Presentation Award in the Insect Taxonomy session in the 3rd International Symposium on Natural Science (2022)
  3. The Best Speaker Prize in the Student Spotlights 2020: Discover the next generation of natural historians, the Linnean Society of London (2020)
  4. The Chula-Mongkut Award, certificate of excellence for student in recognition of great contribution to the school, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University(2015)
  5. Thai youth representative at the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP12), Pyeongchang, South Korea (2014)
  6. The Development and Promotion of Science and Technology Talents Project (DPST)Scholarship (2011­–2023)