R.V Krishnamurthy is a professor of stable isotope geochemistry in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at
Western Michigan University. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Utkal University in 1970 and 1974, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from the Physical Research Laboratory, Department of Space, Ahmedabad in 1984. His research emphases are stable isotopes, paleoclimates, carbon cycling in freshwater systems, and the geochemical fate of contaminants. He leads a research
team focusing on stable isotope research, emphasizing the use of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen isotopes to investigate a variety of environmental and geochemical problems. He supervises the Stable Isotope Laboratory at the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences. This group pioneered the application of hydrogen isotopes in sedimentary organic matter as a climate
proxy and developed analytical techniques to extract dissolved organic carbon compounds in water samples for isotopic measurements as well as techniques for carbonate analysis.
