Ramesh Rajan | |
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| Alma mater | University of Western Australia |
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| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Institutions | Monash University |
Ramesh Rajan is an Australian neuroscientist whose work focuses on sensory neuroscience and traumatic brain injury. He is a professor at Monash University, Australia. [1]
Rajan joined the Department of Physiology at Monash University in 1987 as a research fellow, becoming a lecturer in 1995. He served as the Director of Education for the School of Biomedical Sciences from 2013 to 2016. He has received numerous teaching awards [2] [3] and popular student recognition [4] for his efforts in education and has been a proponent of digital technologies in higher education. [5] He is a board member of the Australian Data Science Education Institute. [6] Since 2017, he has served as the national coordinator of the Australian competition of the International Brain Bee for high school students. [7] [8] Rajan serves on the advisory boards of the Eisdell Moore Centre [9] and Redenlab. [10]
Rajan conducts research in sensory neuroscience, [11] especially in auditory neuroscience and speech processing, [12] [13] and more recently in barrel cortex and traumatic brain injury. [14] [15] He has authored over 100 research articles, which have attracted over 5000 citations. [16] He served as member of the grant advisory group for Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council in 2008 and 2009 [17] and the editorial board of the journal Audiology and Neurotology. [18]
Rajan is a presenter on Golden Days Radio [19] and has contributed to The Age, where he has written on education [20] and politics. [21] [22] One of his PhD students was Australian rules footballer Kate Gillespie-Jones. [23] He attended Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore, India. [24]
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