Editor Profile

Vaitheeswaran Thiruvengadam

University/Organization: Walden University

Country: India

 Biography

Vaitheeswaran Thiruvengadam M.Sc., M. Phil., Ph.D., (M.S) (Cli Psyc) (USA)., has been working as a Project Head and Administration, Tilapia Project, Victoria Treasures Limited, Kampala, Uganda, He holds over 25 years of fisheries resource management and taxonomy, and he has received and awarded (Ph.D) Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship Award (AUS $ 73,200), Doctor of Philosophy, School of Aquaculture, University of Tasmania, Australia. He have been pursuing in M S Clinical Psychology (On line course from May 2017 onwards) at Walden University, U.S.A., He also one of the Renowned Speakers of International Conference on Aquaculture and Fisheries, held on 20-22 July, 2015, at Brisbane Australia. He has a penchant desire and devotion to Teaching and Research work in the field of fisheries science. He has good experience in handling the classes on the Taxonomy of finfish and shellfish (5 credits), Marine fishes (3 credits), and advances in fisheries biology and physiology (2 credits) to the undergraduate students.

He has reported more than 66 species of finfishes, shellfishes and marine invertebrates were reported for the first time from Indian waters at Gulf of Mannar, Southeast coast of India. I am assisted in the taxonomic description of a new species of cuttle-fish Sepia ramani and Sepia prabahari for the first time from world waters. He has been as a peer reviewer, an Editorial Board of various International Journal, and associate editor, renowned speaker and membership of different organization and International and National Journals. He guided five students belonging to the Union Territory of Pondicherry, under a research project on Diabetes mellitus, sponsored by University of Paris, France. He was also invited to organize and participate in the National conference and sports meet by different organizations. He has published 78 publications; (National and International) 13 books, 198 extension articles, 42 new finfish and shellfish, 5 T.V talks and 2 erected new species reported Indian, Indo-Pacific, Western Indian Waters and Indian Ocean. He have been updated for the squat lobster taxonomy, biology upto 53 species were reported for the FIRST TIME in Indo-Pacific region and as well as Indian Ocean. He is team leader in Tilapia culture at Kampala, Uganda, East African Countries. He has worked well with people over the years and make a good team member and feel that I am a good and fair manager who leads by setting an example. My main strengths are punctuality, patience, honesty, fairness and a determination to do well. He have a methodical, inquisitive mine and will always rise to the challenge set in my work.