Rahul Sharma (Ph.D.), is a Consultant on Deep-sea Mining and Former Chief Scientist, National Institute of Oceanography, India, having an experience of 4 decades in the field of deep-sea minerals exploration, environmental impact assessment and economic assessment of deep-sea mining.
He has been a guest editor of 3 special issues of international journals, besides writing more than 65 papers and articles in international scientific journals as well as presenting papers at about 60 conferences around the world. He has also contributed a chapter on ‘Environmental consequences of deep-sea mining’ in the Oxford Encyclopaedia.
His assignments include Visiting Scientist to Japan, Visiting Professor to Saudi Arabia, and Member of the UNIDO mission ‘to assess the status of Deep-sea mining technologies' in Europe, USA and Japan.
Previously, he has edited 4 books in Deep-sea Mining series, viz. Deep-sea Mining (2017), Environmental issues of Deep-sea Mining (2019), Perspectives on Deep-sea Mining (2022) and Deep-sea Mining and the Water Column (2024), all published by Springer Nature.