11 Facts About Ram Rajasekharan

Ram Rajasekharan was born on Christmas Day, 1960 at Manamadurai taluk, Sivaganga district of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Ram Rajasekharan was the first graduate from his village when he earned a BSc in zoology and botany from Madurai Kamaraj University after which he continued at the university to complete an MSc in integrated biology.

Ram Rajasekharan worked at IISc till 2009 during which period he served as an associate professor and was serving as a professor when he was offered the directorship of the Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, a position he held for three years.

Ram Rajasekharan served as a visiting professor at the School of Science of Monash University from 2007 to 2010.

Ram Rajasekharan investigated the possibilities of using plant oils and fats as nutraceuticals and diet supplements and worked towards the improvement of crops which had such potential.

Ram Rajasekharan had started a unique "Waste to wealth" program of making agarbathis from spent flowers from the temples to help the women self help groups in Uttar Pradesh.

Ram Rajasekharan holds 11 patents for the processes he has developed of which nine has been licensed to companies including Dow Chemicals, Nagarjuna Group.

Ram Rajasekharan's studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and the online repository of scientific articles of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 24 of them.

Ram Rajasekharan has delivered several invited speeches at various conferences and served as a member of the advisory committee of many conferences and has organized 2 major annual events of the Society of Biological Chemists at Lucknow and Mysore.

Ram Rajasekharan was elected as a member of Guha Research Conference in 2002.

Ram Rajasekharan was in the news in 2014 when people allegedly belonging to Karnataka Rakshana Vedike, a pro-Kannada non governmental organization, manhandled him, alleging bias against Kannadigas.