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Rajeev Raghavan
Indian conservation biologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rajeev Raghavan is a fisheries scientist and aquatic conservation biologist known for his work on the freshwater fishes of the Indian subcontinent.[1] Rajeev is currently an Assistant Professor at the Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Kochi, India, the South Asia Chair of the IUCN’s Freshwater Fish Specialist Group.,[2][3] and the IUCN Freshwater Fish Red List Authority Coordinator for Asia and Oceania.
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Occupation(s) | Assistant Professor, Fisheries Scientist |
Known for | Freshwater Fish Conservation, Fish Systematics |
Board member of | Mahseer Trust, SHOAL Conservation, Freshwater Life, Fisheries Conservation Foundation |
Awards | FSBI MEDAL 2023 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | St. Albert's College, University of Madras, Wuhan Institute of Hydrobiology, University of Kent |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Conservation Biology, Fisheries science |
Sub-discipline | Freshwater Fish Conservation, Fish Systematics, Molecular ecology, Inland Fisheries |
Institutions | Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies International Union for Conservation of Nature |
Website | http://www.fishlab.in |
Rajeev has to his credit more than 200 publications [4] and has been listed in the Elsevier/Scopus Top 2% Scientists of the World for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 [5]
In honour of Rajeev's research contributions to Indian ichthyology, two fish species have been named after him - a snakehead from the northern Western Ghats, Channa rara,[6] and a hill-stream loach Indoreonectes rajeevi.[7]