Rajeev Raghavan | |
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Occupation(s) | Assistant Professor, Fisheries Scientist |
Known for | Freshwater Fish Conservation, Fish Systematics |
Board member of | Mahseer Trust, SHOAL Conservation, Freshwater Life, Fisheries Conservation Foundation |
Awards | FSBI MEDAL 2023 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | St. Albert's College, University of Madras, Wuhan Institute of Hydrobiology, University of Kent |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Conservation Biology,Fisheries science |
Sub-discipline | Freshwater Fish Conservation,Fish Systematics,Molecular ecology,Inland Fisheries |
Institutions | Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies International Union for Conservation of Nature |
Website | http://www.fishlab.in |
Rajeev Raghavan is a fisheries scientist and aquatic conservation biologist known for his work on the freshwater fishes of the Indian subcontinent. [1] Rajeev is currently an assistant professor at the Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies,Kochi,India,the South Asia Chair of the IUCN's Freshwater Fish Specialist Group., [2] [3] and the IUCN Freshwater Fish Red List Authority Coordinator for Asia and Oceania.
Rajeev has to his credit more than 200 publications [4] and has been listed in the Elsevier/Scopus Top 2% Scientists of the World for the years 2020,2021 and 2022. [5]
In honour of Rajeev's research contributions to Indian ichthyology,two fish species have been named after him - a snakehead from the northern Western Ghats, Channa rara , [6] and a hill-stream loach Indoreonectes rajeevi. [7]
Since 2003,Rajeev has been involved in interdisciplinary research that generates information to support conservation decision making in tropical aquatic ecosystems,particularly in the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot. [8] His work cuts across multiple disciplines from systematics,to molecular ecology and biogeography,freshwater fisheries and conservation policies. His research group [9] is globally recognized for advancing the knowledge-base on understanding the diversity of freshwater fishes on the Indian subcontinent,resulting in the discovery and description of 21 new species (including three new genera and two new families). [10] [11] [12] Working with collaborators,he has also contributed to solving long-standing taxonomic and nomenclatural issues in Indian fish taxonomy. [13] [14]