Ramesh Rajan is an Australian

neuroscientist A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist specializing in neuroscience that deals with the anatomy and function of neurons, Biological neural network, neural circuits, and glia, and their Behavior, behavioral, biological, and psycholo ...

whose work focuses on sensory neuroscience and traumatic brain injury. He is a

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Monash University Monash University () is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the ...

, Australia.

Career

Rajan joined the Department of Physiology at

in 1987 as a research fellow, becoming a lecturer in 1995. He served as the Director of Education for the School of

Biomedical Sciences Biomedical sciences are a set of sciences applying portions of natural science or formal science, or both, to develop knowledge, interventions, or technology that are of use in healthcare or public health. Such disciplines as medical microbio ...

from 2013 to 2016. He has received numerous teaching awards and popular student recognition for his efforts in education and has been a proponent of digital technologies in higher education. He is a board member of the Australian Data Science Education Institute. Since 2017, he has served as the national coordinator of the Australian competition of the International Brain Bee for high school students. Rajan serves on the advisory boards of the Eisdell Moore Centre and Redenlab.

Research

Rajan conducts research in sensory neuroscience, especially in

auditory neuroscience Auditory means of or relating to the process of hearing: * Auditory system, the neurological structures and pathways of sound perception ** Auditory bulla, part of auditory system found in mammals other than primates ** Auditory nerve, also known ...

and

speech processing Speech processing is the study of speech signals and the processing methods of signals. The signals are usually processed in a digital representation, so speech processing can be regarded as a special case of digital signal processing, applied to ...

, and more recently in barrel cortex and

traumatic brain injury A traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as an intracranial injury, is an injury to the brain caused by an external force. TBI can be classified based on severity ranging from mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI/concussion) to severe traumati ...

. He has authored over 100 research articles, which have attracted over 5000 citations. He served as member of the grant advisory group for Australia's

National Health and Medical Research Council The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the main statutory authority of the Australian Government responsible for medical research. It was the eighth largest research funding body in the world in 2016, and NHMRC-funded res ...

in 2008 and 2009 and the editorial board of the journal Audiology and Neurotology.

Personal life

Rajan is a presenter on Golden Days Radio and has contributed to

The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...

, where he has written on education and politics. One of his PhD students was

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er Kate Gillespie-Jones. He attended

Bishop Cotton Boys' School Bishop Cotton Boys' School is an all-boys school for boarders and day scholars in Bengaluru, India, founded in the memory of Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton, Bishop of Calcutta. The school is bordered by Residency Road, St Mark's Road, L ...

in Bangalore, India.

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* * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian neuroscientists Academic staff of Monash University University of Western Australia alumni Bishop Cotton Boys' School alumni {{Australia-med-bio-stub