R. Prasad is an emeritus professor of physics, formerly Dean of the Faculty of Science and Chairman of the Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India. He has more than 40 years of experience teaching nuclear physics, thermal physics, and electronics to upper-level university students. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers in renowned international journals and is author of several books spanning the disciplines of classical, quantum, thermal and nuclear physics.