My name is Ravi, and I am a community ecologist broadly interested in the generation and maintenance of diversity. Currently, I am a HIFMB Postdoctoral Fellow at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), Oldenburg, Germany and an Associate Junior Fellow with Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany. I completed my Ph.D. studying multi-species competition in natural communities, at the Program for Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior and Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University.