2019–2021
M.Sc. Wildlife Science
University of Kota, Rajasthan. 85.5%, grade A+, ranked 2nd of 18. Dissertation on illegal wildlife activities and conservation technologies in Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve.
Writing
papers, preprints, citable software and the talks where the ideas were first tested
papers
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Preprint · in review at Environment & Behavior
Verma, T. K., Bhatia, S., Sinclair, S., Ribeiro, Y., & Veríssimo, D. (2026). From knowledge to behaviour change: a mixed-methods evaluation of the Tide Turners Plastic Challenge in India. SocArXiv. doi:10.31235/osf.io/48gbd_v1
A randomised pre-post evaluation of UNEP’s youth plastic programme in Delhi and Gujarat, with interviews across six states. First author of five, with co-authors at Oxford, ATREE, Kent and PUC-Rio.
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In preparation
Verma, T. K., & Veríssimo, D. NFT-based conservation fundraising, evaluated against the Veríssimo and Wan (2019) demand-reduction framework.
Asks whether conservation NFTs change behaviour, and not only how much money they raise, across cases from South Africa, Brazil, Rwanda and Australia.
citable software and data
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Verma, T. K. (2026). WildTrace: the open atlas of illegal wildlife trade. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22902819
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Verma, T. K. (2026). Sift QDA: free, open-source, local-first qualitative data analysis. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22774118
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Protected Area Update database and portal, C-TARA, IIT Bombay, with Kalpavriksh, 2022–2024. Core team member. pau-database.kalpavriksh.org
talks and posters
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Oral poster · October 2023
Analysis of media reportage about Sanjay Gandhi National Park and Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve. Student Conference on Conservation Science, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
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Poster · February 2023
Three decades of media reporting on wildlife and protected areas in India. Central India Landscape Symposium, Kanha National Park.
education and training
2012–2016
B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering
Rajasthan Technical University. Programming, databases, statistics, data mining and digital image processing, the base for my computational work.
Recognition
CHANGE 2025, Brisbane
Sponsored delegate place at the social marketing and behaviour change conference, awarded competitively by Social Marketing @ Griffith, Griffith Business School.
Short courses, 2021
Certificates
National Geographic Society: Understanding Illegal Wildlife Trade; Conservation Project Planning; Scientific Expeditions for Conservation. Aligarh Muslim University: RS and GIS Applications in Biodiversity Conservation.