G. V. R. Prasad

Guntupalli Veera Raghavendra Prasad (born 1958) is an Indian paleontologist and former head of the department of geology at the University of Delhi.

[1] He is known for his studies on the Mesozoic vertebrate groups of India[2] and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz.

[7][note 1] G. V. R. Prasad was born on 22 November 1958 in Sekuru, a small village in Guntur district of the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

During this period, he did certificate and diploma courses in French at the university and continued there to secure his PhD working under the guidance of Ashok Sahni in 1986.

His next move was to the University of Delhi as a professor and the head of department of geology and retired from the post in  November 2023..[9] He also served as a professor at the department of earth sciences of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata.