Dr. M. Ravichandran, did his BSc. (Ag) (1980) and MSc (Ag) (1982) at Annamalai University and PhD at Tamilnadu Agricultural University (1991). He joined as lecturer (1983), subsequently elevated as Reader (1997) and Professor (2003) and as Head of the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry from 2004-15 at Annamalai University. He served as Dean (2015-18), Faculty of Agriculture and as Registrar during Jan - May, 2019 at Annamalai University. He was nominated by Hon'ble Governor-Chancellor as member syndicate Bharathiar University 2018-2021.

He retired from his service during May, 2019. He has guided 10 MSc (Ag) and 7 PhD scholars. He has in his credit 51 international and 33 national publications and 93 publications in proceedings of national and international seminars, conferences and had authored three books. He had operated nine research projects of DST, UGC, UAS-Agri power Australia collaborative project, TNSCST etc as principal Investigator and Co-principal Investigator.

He served as Professor and Coordinator, at College of Agricultural Sciences , SRM University (2020-2022). From November 2022 he is serving as Dean, School of Agricultural Sciences at Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan University, Samayapuram, Tiruchirappalli.