Dr.edayillam Prasad

Biography

Dr. E. Prasad is working as an Assistant Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics, Central University of Kerala since 2011. Dr. Prasad is currently on study leave availing Australain Research Council Fellowship (2014-17) at the Australian National University. He did his Ph D in Experimental Nuclear Physics from Calicult University collaborating with IUAC New Delhi, in 2010. Before joining C U Kerala, he worked as Assistant Professor of Physics in Govt College Kasaragod for a year. Dr. Prasad is the first rank holder with University Gold medal in B Sc and M Sc Physics and a recepient of CSIR-UGC Junior Research Fellowhip. Dr. Prasad specialises in Nuclear physics, experimental physics, heavy ion fusion and fission physics and high energy physics. He has a wide range of experience in experimental nuclear physics: recoil mass spectrometers, scattering chambers, solid state and gas detectors, gas-filled recoil mass separators, nuclear target fabrication, accelerator tuning, radiation detector handling, nuclear data analysis, programming in C, CPP, Fortran, Python and ROOT. He has 30 international research papers to his credit, majority of them in American Physical Society journals and has more than 30 national/international conference presentations. He has research projects in collaboration with IUAC New Delhi, and is a memebr of Kerala chapter of INO research. Currently he is guiding 4 Ph D students.

Research Interest

Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Reaction, Heavy ion Physics