Ganeshan Venkataraman is an Indian condensed matter physicist, writer and a former vice chancellor of the Sri Sathya Sai University.
[2] After superannuation from government service, he served as the vice chancellor and honorary professor of the Sri Sathya Sai University.
[1] Venkataraman, a distinguished professor of DRDO, has done advanced research in subjects such as neutron scattering, lattice dynamics, mechanical properties of matter, non-crystalline state, neutral networks and image processing.
Apart from the scientific monographs like Dynamics of Perfect Crystals and Beyond the Crystalline State, he has also published several books such as, Journey into light: life and science of C.V. Raman,[6] A Hot Story,[1] Bhabha and His Magnificent Obsessions[7] and Saha and His Formula.
[5] He is also a former member of the editorial board of Pramana,[8] a reputed journal of Physics[2] and has delivered several keynote addresses and lectures.