Rajesh V.j.

Biography

Education Ph.D. Geology, Yokohama National University, Japan, 2004 M.Sc. Geology, University of Kerala, 1999 B.Sc. Geology, University of Kerala, 1997 Experience Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram (15 February 2010 onwards) Research Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Korea University, South Korea (December 2009-10 February 2010) Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, Kanazawa University, Japan (November 2007-November 2009) Research Full time Lecturer (Post Doctoral Research Fellow), Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Korea University, South Korea (March 2007-October 2007) Part-time Lecturer in Metamorphic Petrology, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Korea University, South Korea(March 2007-July 2007) Specialist Researcher, Korean Institute of Landscape and Geology, Sunchon National University, South Korea(September 2006-February, 2007) Part-time Lecturer in Igneous Petrology, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Korea University, South Korea (September 2006-February 2007) Research Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Korea University, South Korea(May 2006-August 2007) Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chonbuk National University, South Korea(May, 2005- May, 2006). Foreign Visiting Research Fellow, Geological Institute, Yokohama National University, Japan (June 2004-April 2005)

Research Interest

Understanding the petrologic and geochemical data to interpret the processes associated with the evolution of various magmas (ultramafic-mafic-felsic igneous systems) in diverse tectonic environments in the Earth’s upper mantle and deep lower crust REE-rich mineral formations associated with alkaline, mafic and carbonatitic magmas/melts and behavior of trace and rare earth elements in igneous systems Understanding the origin of anorthosites in earth and moon