Ramesh Singh

Ramesh Singh is a Professor in the School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Chapman University, USA. Between 2007 and 2009, he was a Professor with George Mason University, Virginia, USA and was a Distinguished Visiting Professor with the Centre o Earth Observing Space Research 2003-2005. Prior to that, he worked as a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India from 1986 to 2007. His main areas of interests are Natural Hazards, Seismic Risk evaluation and Urban environment and Atmospheric pollution, and he has supervised Master and Ph.D. students in the fields of Remote Sensing, Engineering Geosciences, Natural Hazards and Atmospheric pollution and Applied Geophysics. Dr. Singh has published more than 200 journal publications and has edited several books. He is a recipient of the Indian National Remote Sensing, National Mineral, and Hari Om Ashram Prerit awards. He has visited Free University Berlin, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and Hirosaki University, Japan as a JSPS Fellow and is member of the International Committees on GeoRisk Commission and EMSEV Bureau, as well as the Editor in Chief of Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Remote Sensing and past Editor in Chief of the Indian Journal of Remote Sensing.