Special Issue: Geometric Function Theory and Special Functions, AIMS Mathematics, 2023 

Dr. V. Ravichandran currently holds the position of Professor of Mathematics at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. He completed his B.Sc., M.Sc., and M.Phil. degrees at National College, Trichy, and obtained his Ph.D. degree from Anna University, Chennai. His career began as a Lecturer at SVCE in 1996. From 2004 to 2007, he served as a Visiting Post-doc/Senior Lecturer at  Universiti Sains Malaysia and later in 2011-12, he held Visiting Professor position there. He joined as Reader at University of Delhi in 2007 and appointed there as Professor in 2014. From 21.12.2015 to 12.04.2018, he served as the Head of the Department, Department of Mathematics, DU.  

Dr. Ravichandran has authored more than 200 research papers, with more than 50 of them are with Prof. Dato' Indera Rosihan M. Ali from Universiti Sains Malaysia. He has written textbooks on complex analysis (published by USM Press), real analysis, and PDE (both published by Springer). Additionally, he has supervised 17 Ph.D. and 9 M.Phil. scholars, and he is currently guiding 7 scholars for their Ph.D. degrees.

He serves as an editor for the Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society since 2004, as well as for The Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society and Ganita. He has also worked as a reviewer for Mathematical Review, published by the American Mathematical Society, and for Zentralblatt Math, published by the European Mathematical Society. He has reviewed approximately 100 papers for the latter. Moreover, he regularly acts as a referee for over 50 reputable journals.

From June 2017 to April 2018, he held the position of Chairman of the Governing Body at Shyama Prasad Mukherji College for Women, University of Delhi. He also served as an Adjunct Professor at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University from August 2016 to August 2018. Furthermore, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Division of Mathematical Sciences, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea, and at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. His papers have received merit rewards from USM, and for three consecutive years (2008-2010), his papers won the Best Research Paper Award in the Science, Technology, and Medicine category, bestowed by the Malaysian Council of Scholarly Publications (Majlis Penerbitan Ilmiah Malaysia MAPIM).

Dr. Ravichandran has been using LaTeX since 1993 and is always willing to train others in this excellent typesetting software. However, he is not fond of traveling.