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{{short description|Indian paleontologist (born 1958)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = G. V. R. Prasad
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1958|11|22}}
| birth_place = Sekuru, [[Guntur district]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], India
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| residence = [[Delhi]], India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Paleontology]] | Palaeobiogeography }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Panjab University]] | [[University of Jammu]] | [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata|IISER Kolkata]] | [[University of Delhi]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Vikram University]] | [[Panjab University]] | [[Montpellier 2 University]] | [[Pierre and Marie Curie University]] | [[Humboldt University of Berlin]] | [[University College of London]] }}
| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist| Ashok Sahni }}
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Studies on the [[Mesozoic]] vertebrate groups of India
| awards = {{ublist|1994 [[Ministry of Mines (India)|MoM]]National Mineral Award | 1999 [[University Grants Commission (India)|UGC]] Research Award | 2003 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize|S. S. Bhatnagar Prize]] | 2003 L. Rama Rao Birth Centenary Award | 2006[[Society of Vertebrate Paleontology|SVP]] Preparators’ Grant Award }}
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'''Guntupalli Veera Raghavendra Prasad''' (born 1958) is an Indian [[paleontologist]] and the head of the department of geology at the [[University of Delhi]].<ref name="GVR Prasad on DU">{{Cite web |url=http://geology.du.ac.in/people_teaching.html |title=GVR Prasad on DU |date=2016 |publisher=Delhi University}}</ref> He is known for his studies on the [[Mesozoic]] vertebrate groups of India<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=240 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. [[Indian Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Prasad,_Prof._Guntupalli_Veera_Raghavendra |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> [[Indian National Science Academy]]<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=P06-1419 |title=Indian fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</ref> and the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |title=NASI fellows |date=2016 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806211716/http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |archivedate=6 August 2015 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> as well as [[The World Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="TWAS fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://twas.org/member/prasad-guntupalli-vr |title=TWAS fellow |date=2016 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences in 2003.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=12 November 2016}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}}

== Biography ==
[[File:StuC PU.jpg|thumb|235px|left|Student Centre, Panjab University]]
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]].<ref name="Profile on SVP">{{Cite web |url=http://vertpaleo.org/the-Society/Awards/Past-Award-Winners/2006-(Preparators-Grant)-Guntapalli-V-R-Prasad.aspx |title=Profile on SVP |date=2016 |publisher=Society of Vertebrate Paleontology}}</ref> He completed his undergraduate studies in 1979 at [[Vikram University]] and after obtaining a master's degree in 1981, enrolled for MPhil at [[Punjab University, Chandigarh]].<ref name="Faculty profile">{{Cite web |url=http://work.du.ac.in/mrsd/uploads/faculty_cv/guntupalli.vrprasad@gmail.com_2736.pdf |title=Faculty profile |date=2016 |publisher=Delhi University}}</ref> 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 career started the same year at the Centre of Advanced Study in Palaeontology and Himalayan Geology of the university and served as an ad-hoc lecturer till 1986 when he moved to the department of geology of the [[University of Jammu]] as a lecturer. He served the university till 2008, holding positions as a reader (1992–98), a professor and in between, did his post doctoral studies at [[Montpellier 2 University]], [[Pierre and Marie Curie University]], [[Humboldt University of Berlin]] and [[University College of London]].<ref name="Indian fellow" /> At Jammu University, he also held the responsibilities of the head of the department of geology (2002–03 and 2005–07), and the convener of the board of studies in geology (2006–08). His next move was to the [[University of Delhi]] as a professor and the head of department of geology and he holds the post to date.<ref name="Faculty Details Performa of Geology Department ">{{Cite web |url=http://geology.du.ac.in/people_teaching.html |title=Faculty Details Performa of Geology Department |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Geology - DU}}</ref> He also serves as a professor at the department of earth sciences of the [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research]], Kolkata.<ref name="Faculty profile" />

== Legacy ==
Prasad's main areas of researches have been in the fields of [[Vertebrate paleontology]] and [[Cretaceous]] palaeobiogeography and he is known to have done extensive studies on various [[Mesozoic]] vertebrate groups of India, with regard to their origin, diversity, and [[biogeographic]] relationships.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee" /> He is credited with the discovery of the first cretaceous mammal from India,<ref name="First Cretaceous mammal from India">{{Cite journal |last=G. V. R. Prasad, Ashok Sahni |title=First Cretaceous mammal from India |journal=Nature |date=14 April 1988 |volume=332 |issue=6165 |pages= 638–640 |doi=10.1038/332638a0|bibcode=1988Natur.332..638P |s2cid=4345145 }}</ref> [[Eutheria|eutherian mammals]] of arboreal adaptations and euarchontan [[Affinity (taxonomy)|affinities]] from the Cretaceous India and [[putative]] oldest [[ungulate]] mammal; the last of the discoveries is reported to evidence the Mesozoic origin of [[placental mammals]].<ref name="Indian fellow" /> His studies have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles;<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Prasad=3AGuntupalli_Veera_Raghavendra=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} [[ResearchGate]], an online repository of scientific articles, has listed 101 of them.<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Guntupalli_Prasad |title=On ResearchGate |date=2016 }}</ref> He is a former member of the Research Advisory Committee of [[Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology]], governing body of the [[Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences]], the national working group of the [[International Union of Geological Sciences]] and the editorial board of the Journal of the [[Geological Society of India]].<ref name="Indian fellow" /> He has also mentored a number of masters and doctoral scholars in their studies.<ref name="Mentoring">{{Cite web |url=http://www.du.ac.in/du/uploads/Admissions/2015/Ph.D/17112015_Geo_Ph.D_admission.pdf |title=Mentoring |date=2016 |publisher=Delhi University}}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
Prasad received the National Mineral Award of the [[Ministry of Mines (India)|Ministry of Mines]] in 1994<ref name="National Geoscience Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mines.nic.in/writereaddata/Content/A_NationalGeoscience_Awardees1995-2012.pdf |title=National Geoscience Award |date=2016 |publisher=Ministry of Mines (India) |page=55 |access-date=5 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130132938/http://www.mines.nic.in/writereaddata/Content/A_NationalGeoscience_Awardees1995-2012.pdf |archive-date=30 November 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the Research Award of the [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]] in 1999.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> The [[Geological Society of India]] selected him for the L. Rama Rao Birth Centenary Award in 2003<ref name="L. Rama Rao Birth Centenary Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.geosocindia.org/index.php/gsi/pages/view/sa_Lrrbca |title=L. Rama Rao Birth Centenary Award |date=2016 |publisher=Geological Society of India}}</ref> and the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards the same year.<ref name="Earth Sciences">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |title=Earth Sciences |date=2016 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200915/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |archivedate=3 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> He was elected as a fellow by the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] also in 2003<ref name="Fellow profile" /> and he became a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] in 2006.<ref name="NASI fellows" /> He was selected for the J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]] in 2015,<ref name="Indian fellow" /> the tenure of the fellowship running till 2015 during which period [[The World Academy of Sciences]] elected him as their fellow in 2011.<ref name="TWAS fellow" /> He is also a recipient of Fields grant of the [[National Geographic Society]] (1993–95), Collections study grant of the [[American Museum of Natural History]], Samuel P. & Doris Welles Fund grant of the [[University of California Museum of Paleontology]] and the Preparators’ Grant of the [[Society of Vertebrate Paleontology]].<ref name="Preparators’ Grant">{{Cite web |url=http://vertpaleo.org/Awards/Past-Award-Winners.aspx |title=Preparators' Grant |date=2016 |publisher=Society of Vertebrate Paleontology}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
* {{Cite journal |last=Varun Parmar, Rahul Magotra, Rigzin Norboo, Guntupalli Veera Raghavendra Prasad |title=Rodent-based age appraisal of the Lower Siwalik Subgroup of Kalaunta, Ramnagar, Jammu, India |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=41 |date=2016 |pages=124–133 |doi=10.1080/03115518.2016.1196435|s2cid=133491212 }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Thomas John Dixon Halliday, Guntupalli Veera Raghavendra Prasad, Anjali Goswami |title=Faunal similarity in Madagascan and South Indian Late Cretaceous vertebrate faunas |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |date=2016 |volume=468 |pages=70–75 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.11.046|url=http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1530886/3/Halliday_1-s2.0-S0031018216307994-main.pdf }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Boyer, Doug M. |author2=Prasad, Guntupalli V. R. |author3=Krause, David W. |author4=Godinot, Marc |author5=Goswami, Anjali |author6=Verma, Omkar |author7=Flynn, John J. |title=New postcrania of Deccanolestes from the late Cretaceous of India and their bearing on the evolutionary and biogeographic history of Euarchontan mammals |journal=Naturwissenschaften |date=2010 |volume=97 |issue=4 |pages=365–377 |doi=10.1007/s00114-010-0648-0 |pmid=20130827|bibcode=2010NW.....97..365B |s2cid=12188926 }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Prasad, G. V. R. |title=Divergence time estimates of mammals from molecular clocks and fossils: relevance of new fossil finds from India |journal=Journal of Biosciences |date=2009 |volume=34 |issue=5 |pages=649–659 |doi=10.1007/s12038-009-0063-x|pmid=20009262 |s2cid=10953376 }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Prasad, G. V. R. |author2=Bajpai, Sunil |title=Agamid lizards from the early eocene of western India: oldest cenozoic lizards from south Asia |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |date=2008 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=1–20}}

== See also ==
* [[Kanchan Pande]]
* [[Gideon Mantell]]
{{portal|India|Geology}}

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.du.ac.in/du/index.php?page=geology |title=Department of Geology |date=2016 |publisher=Delhi University}}

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