Prof. V.k. Gaur

Biography

 Vinod K Gaur Distinguished Professor Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore-560 034 Also Adjunct Professor Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata Vinod Gaur studied Geophysics at Banaras University and at Imperial College where he discovered the hitherto unsuspected ‘host rock effect’ in geo-electromagnetics. For this discovery in 1959, he earned the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of London. His academic career began, immediately thereafter, as a Scientist at the National Physical Laboratory, UK. Later in 1966, he joined the University of Roorkee as Professor where he initiated a modern academic programme in Geophysics incorporating the insightful contents of signal analysis, inverse theory and computational geophysics. These were subsequently propagated by the UGC to other universities by sponsoring short- term intensive courses that were organized by Gaur at Roorkee. In 1983, he moved to Hyderabad as Director of the National Geophysical Research Institute and set about restructuring the Institute’s research programmes with scientific rigour, guided by hypothesis formulation and experiment design (Nature, April 12, 1984)

Research Interest

  Geoglogy and Earth Science