Dr C.S.Gopinatha
Pillai, MSc,PhD
Principal
Scientist and Head of Fishery Environment
Management
Di vision
retired on superannuation on 30 June,1996
Dr Pillai joined
CMFRI as Research Assistant and served for about 32 years
in various positions ..
Dr Pillai who is internationally
recognized for his work
on the
taxonomy and ecology of Indo
Pacific corals has worked on reef corals
from almost all
parts from the west coast of Africa to Hawai in Islands. H e
has elucidated the reef
coral fauna of India including Gulf
of Kutch; Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep Islands. Dr Pillai has published
about 80 papers and
has co-edited the proceedings o f the Firs t International
Symposium
on Corals and recent publication
b y CMFRI en titled Marine Biodiversity Conserva tion .
Dr Pillai
was twise awarded the Fellowship of the pres tigious Alexander
Von
Humbold Founda
tion, West Germany and is also one time Bursary recipient of the
Royal Society and Nuffield Foundation, England which
enabled
him to do post doc toral research in Germany, England, USA and
France . H e has
served in a number of national and
international committees.
