Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, UK

s.pawar@imperial.ac.uk

Samraat is a theoretical/quantitative ecologist based at the Silwood Park Campus of Imperial College London, UK.

Collaboration statement

My lab studies whether and how metabolic constraints on individual organisms scale up to complex ecological systems (AKA ecosystems), using trait-based mathematical and computational modelling.

I am one of the co-founders of BioTraits and its spin-off, the VecTraits (both currently being overhauled) databases. I offer expertise in workflows for constructing metabolic trait-focused databases. I am currently particularly interested in microbial metabolic traits (in an ecological context), and within that, thermal responses of these traits.

I am keen on helping strengthen trait-based ecology in general. I am particularly keen on discussing the possibilities of developing a global trait standard and database for “ecological metabolic traits” (starting with a discussion of how to define this particular thing per se!), and am happy to support the Open Traits resource in any way that I can.

I am currently (2025) working as a co-PI on the One Health Vector-Borne Diseases Hub, which builds upon VecTraits.