Dr. Nallamuthu Godhantaraman is a Deputy Director, UGC-Human Resources Development Centre and Head, Centre for Environmental Sciences and also Adjunct Faculty, Centre for Ocean and Coastal Studies, University of Madras, Chennai, India. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Marine Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. He was a JSPS Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Hiroshima University, Japan and STA Post-doctoral Researcher at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Japan during 1998-2002. He is a Senate Member - Middle East University, United Arab Emirates. He has published more than 25 research papers, participated and presented research papers at more than 40 national and more than 15 International conferences held in India and abroad. He visited Japan, USA, UK, Germany, France, Portugal, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Thailand and South Korea. He has successfully completed a number of major research projects and also serving as a member in various professional bodies/committees. He is an expert-cum-reviewer for more than 10 scientific journals published by Elsevier, Springer publishers, Indian Publishers, UK Publishers and Indonesian Journals.