Raja Ganeshram
Raja Ganeshram holds a Personal Chair of Geochemistry at the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh. Raja began his studies at the University of Madras, from which he holds BSc and MSc degree and continued to get a MS from the Indian Institute of Technology- Madras. He completed a PhD in Oceanography at the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1996 and conducted postdoctoral studies at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, USA. Raja moved to the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in 1999. He is currently the head of the Ocean and Past Climate Research Group. His work variously deals with past, present and future changes in carbon, nutrients and oxygen, cycles in the ocean. He has published over 100 papers in major peer-reviewed journals including Science and Nature and has won many prestigious awards including distinguished scientist award by CSIR-India.
