Roshin P. Raj

Roshin P. Raj is a physical oceanographer with nearly two decades of research experience in satellite remote sensing and climate research. He has obtained his PhD in Oceanography at the University of Bergen in 2014.

Raj is a senior scientist at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway, and also part of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Norway, where he co-leads the Polar Climate research theme. Raj is actively involved in major international activities on climate change, such as the: World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) – Safe Landing Climates lighthouse activities; and the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiatives (CCI). Raj is also actively contributing to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), primarily through three ongoing research projects C3-eKerala, ENRICH, and FOCCUS, all endorsed by UNESCO as Ocean Decade activities. During his research career, Raj has published 60+ peer-reviewed publications and has been part of 40+ research projects funded mainly by the European Union (EU), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Norwegian Research Council. Raj has also been active in supervision and mentoring of master students, PhDs and Post docs (17 in total), many resulted in publications in high-ranking journals (8 in Nature journals). His main research interest is to integrate satellite remote sensing with in-situ observations, ecosystem modelling and AI/Machine learning to investigate the impact of climate change on ocean processes and its cascading effect on marine ecosystem and human health.