Vedharaman Rajamani
Environmental Sciences
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Vedharaman Rajamani earned his BSc (1966) from Madras University and MSc (1969) in Applied Geology from IIT, Bombay. He then moved to the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he earned his MS (1972) and PhD (1974) in Geochemistry. His PhD research, carried out under the guidance of Professor CT Prewitt, was on 'chemical bonding and crystal chemistry of transition metals bearing sulphide and silicate minerals'. Subsequently, he worked with Professor AJ Naldrett at the University of Toronto on 'experimentally modeling the geochemistry of magmatic sulphide deposits associated with ultramafic and mafic igneous rocks'. Rajamani joined Faculty of the School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1977 and developed postgraduate teaching programs in environmental sciences for the School.
Research Interest
Geochemistry
