Dr. Muthurajan Raveendran is a Director of Research at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore. He completed his Ph.D. in Plant Biotechnology in 2002 from TNAU. He carried out his post-doctoral research on Genomics and Bioinformatics at the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines (2003–2006). He was sent to the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Tsukuba, Japan, and Beijing Genomics Institute, Beijing, China as a visiting researcher. He has offered more than 30 courses to UG/PG/Ph.D. students and mentored 3 sponsored post-doctoral Fellows, 5 Ph.D. students, and more than 25 Master’s students in carrying out their thesis research. Dr. Raveendran has obtained more than 17 externally funded projects from national (DBT, DST, BIRAC) and international (IRRI, Royal Society, BMZ, BMGF) funding agencies. He has published more than 150 research papers in journals of national/international repute. He developed submergence-tolerant rice CO 43 Sub1 through marker-assisted back cross-breeding and released his findings through the Central Variety Release Committee. Dr. Raveendran is a recipient of several honors and awards viz., the Tamil Nadu Scientist Award (2017) from the TN State Council for Science and Technology, the International Society for the Study of Lumbar Spine (ISSLS) Award (2017), and Spine Researchers Award (2019) from North American Spine Society (NASS) 98421 81968 / 81480 95400. He can be contacted at 0422-6611447, 6611547.