Manikanda is a geoscience researcher and PhD student with over 5 year’s expertise as Field Geoscientist at the Institute for Ocean Management at Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. In addition to this, he has over three years of experience in mineral exploration research and partial extraction geochemistry.

His MSc thesis researched a geospatial decision support system for risk assessments and urban management of Chennai metropolis, South India. His main interests concern environmental pollution and environmental geochemistry.