Ramesh Rajan is an Australian

neuroscientist A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist who has specialised knowledge in neuroscience, a branch of biology that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons, Biological neural network, n ...

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

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who pr ...

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

, 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 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 The International Brain Bee (IBB) is a neuroscience competition for teenagers. The IBB was founded in 1999 by Dr. Norbert Myslinski, and consists of over 200 chapters in more than 50 regions on 6 continents. Its purpose is to help treat and find cur ...

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 t ...

, and more recently in

barrel cortex The barrel cortex is a region of the somatosensory cortex that is identifiable in some species of rodents and species of at least two other orders and contains the barrel field. The 'barrels' of the barrel field are regions within cortical lay ...

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 TBI/concussionto severe traumatic b ...

. 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 rese ...

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

Personal life

Rajan is a presenter on

Golden Days Radio Golden Days Radio (official call sign 3GDR) is a Melbourne-based community radio station broadcasting on 95.7 FM from a transmitter located at Caulfield Racecourse Caulfield Racecourse Reserve is located nine kilometres from the Melbourne ...

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 oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

Kate Gillespie-Jones Katherine Gillespie-Jones (born 26 April 1991) is an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and North Melbourne in the AFL Women's (AFLW). AFLW career Doctor Gillespie-Jones was drafted by Carlton with the club's second selection ...

. He attended

Bishop Cotton Boys' School Bishop Cotton Boys' School is an all-boys school for boarders and day scholars in Bangalore, India, founded in the memory of Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton, Bishop of Calcutta. The school has been described as "The Eton of the East". Th ...

in Bangalore, India.

References

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* * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian neuroscientists Academic staff of Monash University {{Australia-med-bio-stub