Ramesh Rajan is an Australian neuroscientist whose work focuses on sensory neuroscience and traumatic brain injury. He is a professor at Monash University, Australia.^[1]

Rajan joined the Department of Physiology at Monash University in 1987 as a research fellow, becoming a lecturer in 1995. He served as the Director of Education for the School of Biomedical Sciences from 2013 to 2016. He has received numerous teaching awards^[2][3] and popular student recognition^[4] for his efforts in education and has been a proponent of digital technologies in higher education.^[5] He is a board member of the Australian Data Science Education Institute.^[6] Since 2017, he has served as the national coordinator of the Australian competition of the International Brain Bee for high school students.^[7][8] Rajan serves on the advisory boards of the Eisdell Moore Centre^[9] and Redenlab.^[10]

Rajan conducts research in sensory neuroscience,^[11] especially in auditory neuroscience and speech processing,^[12][13] and more recently in barrel cortex and traumatic brain injury.^[14][15] He has authored over 100 research articles, which have attracted over 5000 citations.^[16] He served as member of the grant advisory group for Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council in 2008 and 2009^[17] and the editorial board of the journal Audiology and Neurotology.^[18]

Rajan is a presenter on Golden Days Radio^[19] and has contributed to The Age, where he has written on education^[20] and politics.^[21][22] One of his PhD students was Australian rules footballer Kate Gillespie-Jones.^[23] He attended Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore, India.^[24]