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 Central University of Kerala
09 December 2025

Dr. E Prasad

Nuclear Reaction Dynamics Lab


Brief Profile

Dr. E. Prasad is an Experimental Nuclear Physicist and currently serves as the Head of the Department of Physics at the Central University of Kerala. He joined the university in October 2011, having previously worked as an Assistant Professor at Govt. College Kasaragod for a year under a regular appointment by Kerala PSC. Dr. Prasad completed his Ph.D. in Experimental Nuclear Physics at the Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC) in New Delhi,  with an affiliation of Calicut University. He also worked as a post-doctoral scientist in the Nuclear Physics Department at the Australian National University from 2014 to 2017 and continued as a visiting scientist there during 2018 and 2019.

With over 20 years of research experience, Dr. Prasad has contributed extensively to the fields of heavy ion fusion, nuclear fission, quasifission, and superheavy element synthesis. He has authored more than 70 Scopus-indexed publications, primarily in prestigious American Physical Society journals like Physical Review Letters, Physical Review C, and Physics Letters B. His academic impact is reflected in his h-index of 21 and an i-10 index of 37 (according to Google Scholar). He has presented research papers in more than 10 international conferences and more than 30 national conferences as Keynote/invited/contributed speaker.

Dr. Prasad earned his B.Sc. in Physics from Kannur University and his M.Sc. in Physics from the University Campus, Calicut University, where he was a gold medalist and first rank holder in both programs. He also received the CSIR-UGC JRF in the NET examination of 2005. Throughout his career, he has completed five external research projects (three finished, two ongoing), including the DST-FIST grant and the Indo-Russian (DST-RFBR) bilateral project. Dr. Prasad has successfully guided four Ph.D. students, two M.Phil. students, and over 40 M.Sc. students, with five more Ph. D. students currently working under his supervision.

Dr. Prasad maintains collaborations with national and international institutions, including ANU (Australia), JINR (Russia), GSI (Germany), IUAC (New Delhi), BARC (Mumbai), Tapar Institute, Calicut University, NIT Calicut, and Andhra University. He is a member of the Board of Studies at various Indian universities and serves as a Ph.D. thesis adjudicator for multiple institutions. Additionally, he is the State Coordinator (Kerala) for Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan (VVM), a national science program jointly coordinated by Vijnan Bharathi (VIBHA) India and NCERT.

In addition to his academic roles, Dr. Prasad has served as the University Sports Coordinator at the Central University of Kerala for over six years and as the Director of Infrastructure in 2023-2024. He was also a member of the Court of C.U. Kerala (VC’s nominee) from 2020 to 2023.

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Dr. E Prasad
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Department of Physics
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 Recent and Major Publications

  1. S. Ramakrishna Reddy ,1,* A. Pal,2,3 S. K. Duggi V. V. Parkar ,2,3 N. N. Deshmukh ,1 T. Santhosh,2,3 Pankaj Shah,4 Tanya Singh ,4 P. K. Rath,5 Ramandeep Gandhi ,2,3 S. Santra ,2,3 K. Prameela ,2,3 P. C. Rout,2,3 E. Prasad ,1,"Fission modes in 223Ac and 227Pa compound nuclei",Physical review C,Vol. 110, Page:014622

  2. A.C. Visakh, E. Prasad etal.,"Fusion studies in 19F + 142,150Nd reactions at energies around the Coulomb barrier",Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics,Vol. 52, Page:015106

  3. Shareef M, E. Prasad et al.,,"Neutron multiplicity measurement and investigation of nuclear dissipation and shell effects in 30Si+182,184,186W reactions",Physical review C,107, 054619

  4. Shareef M, E. Prasad et al.,,"Neutron multiplicity measurement and investigation of nuclear dissipation and shell effects in 30Si+182,184,186W reactions",Physical review C,107, 054619

  5. D. Y. Jeung, E. Prasad et al.,,"Sequential fission and the influence of 208Pb closed shells on the dynamics of superheavy element synthesis reactions",Physics Letters B,837, 137641

  6. D. J. Hinde et al.,,"Nuclear structure effects in quasifission – understanding the formation of the heaviest elements",EPJ web of conferences,123,03005

  7. P. Jisha , 1,* A. M. Vinodkumar , 1 S. Sanila , 1 K. Arjun,1 B. R. S. Babu , 1 J. Gehlot,2 S. Nath , 2 N. Madhavan,2 Rohan Biswas , 2 A. Parihari , 2,† A. Vinayak,3 Amritraj Mahato , 4 E. Prasad,5 and A. C. Visakh,"Role of positive transfer Q values in fusion cross sections for 18O + 182,184,186W reactions",Phys Rev C,105,054614

  8. P. Jisha , 1,* A. M. Vinodkumar , 1 S. Sanila , 1 K. Arjun,1 B. R. S. Babu , 1 J. Gehlot,2 S. Nath , 2 N. Madhavan,2 Rohan Biswas , 2 A. Parihari , 2,† A. Vinayak,3 Amritraj Mahato , 4 E. Prasad,5 and A. C. Visakh,"Role of positive transfer Q values in fusion cross sections for 18O + 182,184,186W reactions",Phys Rev C,105,054614

  9. A. C. Visakh, E. Prasad, P. V. Laveen, M. Shareef, A. Shamlath, S. Nath, N. Madhavan, J. Gehlot, Gonika, Rohan Biswas, A. Parihari, J. Khuyagbaatar, B. Lommel, B. Kindler, A. M. Vinodkumar, B. R. S. Babu, S. Sanila, K. M. Varier, and S. Appannababu,"Fusion studies in 16O+142,150Nd reactions at energies near the Coulomb barrier",Phys. Rev. C,Vol 104, 054602

  10. Kaushik Banerjee et al.,,"Sensitive search for near-symmetric and super-asymmetric fusion-fission of the superheavy element Flerovium (Z=114)",Phys. Lett. B,820,136601

  11. Sunila Kalkal et al.,,"Ground state and excited state multinucleon transfer channels in interactions of 28Si with 90,94Zr in near barrier region",International Journal of Modern Physics E,30, 2150053

  12. A. Jinghan et al.,,"Development of a time of flight spectrometer based on position sensitive multi-wire proportional counters for fission fragment mass distribution studies",Review of Scientific Insturments,92,033309

  13. E. Prasad et al.,,"Systematics of the mass-asymmetric fission of excited nuclei from 176Os to 206Pb",Phys. Lett. B,811, 135941

  14. P. V. Lavee, E. Prasad et al.,,"Fusion studies in 35,37Cl+181Ta reactions via evaporation residue cross section measurements",Phys. Rev. C,102, 034613

  15. B. M. A. Swinton Bland et al.,,"Systematic Study of Quasifission in 48Ca-induced reactions",EPJ web of conferences,232, 03007

  16. H. M. Albers et al.,,"Zeptosecond contact times for element Z=120 synthesis",Phys Lett B,808,135626

  17. P. Jisha, A. M. Vinodkumar, E. Prasad et al.,,"Evaporation residue measurements of compound nuclei in the A≈200 region",Phys. Rev. C,101, 024611

  18. K. K. Rajesh et al.,,"Measurement of fusion evaporation residue cross sections in the 48Ti+138Ba reaction",Phys. Rev. C,100,044611

  19. K. Benerjee et al.,,"Mechanisms Suppressing Superheavy Element Yields in Cold Fusion Reactions",Phys. Rev. Lett,122, 232503

  20. ,,"Nuclear dissipation at high excitation energy and angular momenta in reaction forming 227Np",Phys. Rev. C,99, 024618

  21. J. Khuyaagbaatar et al.,,"Nuclear structure dependence of fusion hindrance in heavy element synthesis",Phys. Rev. C,97, 064618

  22. A. Wakhle et al.,,"Capture cross sections for the synthesis of new heavy nuclei using radioactive beams",Phys. Rev. C,97, 021602(R)

  23. D. J. Hinde et al.,,"Sub-barrier quasifission in heavy element formation reactions with deformed actinide target nuclei",Phys. Rev. C,97, 024616

  24. M. Morjean et al.,,"Evidence for the Role of Proton Shell Closure in Quasifission Reactions from X-Ray Fluorescence of Mass-Identified Fragments",Phys. Rev. Lett,119,222502

  25. E. Prasad, D. J. Hinde, E. Williams, M. Dasgupta, I. P. Carter, K. J. Cook, D. Y. Jeung, D. H. Luong, C. S. Palshetkar, D. C. Rafferty, K. Ramachandran, C. Simenel, and A. Wakhle,"Fusion and quasifission studies for the 40Ca+186W,192Os reactions",Phys. Rev. C,Vol. 96, Page:034608

  26. D. J. Hinde et al.,,"Quasifission Dynamics in the Formation of Superheavy Elements",EPJ web of conferences,163, 00023

  27. C. Sengupta et al.,,"First Elastic Scattering Measurement of 8Li on 209Bi at the Australian National University",EPJ web of conferences,163, 00052

  28. A. Shamlath, E. Prasad, N. Madhavan, P. V. Laveen, J. Gehlot, A. K. Nasirov, G. Giardina, G. Mandaglio, S. Nath, Tathagata Banerjee, A. M. Vinodkumar, M. Shareef, A. Jhingan, T. Varughese, DVGRKS Kumar, P. Sandya Devi, Khushboo, P. Jisha, Neeraj Kumar, M. M. Hosamani, and S. Kailas,"Fusion and quasifission studies in reactions forming Rn via evaporation residue measurements",Phys. Rev. C,Vol:95, 034610

  29. Tathagata Banerjee, S. Nath, A. Jhingan, Gurpreet Kaur, R. Dubey, Abhishek Yadav, P. V. Laveen, A. Shamlath, M. Shareef, J. Gehlot, N. Saneesh, E. Prasad, P. Sugathan, and Santanu Pal,"Fission fragment angular distributions in pre-actinide nuclei",Phys. Rev. C,94, 044607

  30. A. Shamlath, E. Prasad et al.,,"Probing quasifission in reactions forming 210Rn nucleus",Proceedings of Science,26,11

  31. D. J. Hinde et al.,,"Systematic study of quasifission characteristics and timescales in heavy element formation reactions",EPJ web of conferences,117,08006

  32. M. Shareef, A. Chatterjee, and E. Prasad,"Entrance channel systematics of pre-scission neutron multiplicities",EPJ A,52,316

  33. D. J. Hinde et al.,,"Quasifission in heavy and superheavy element formation reactions",EPJ web of conferences,131,04004

  34. Sunil kalkal et al.,,"Asymptotic and near-target direct breakup of 6 Li and 7 Li",Phys Rev C,93, 044605

  35. Sunil Kalkal, E. C. Simpson, D. H. Luong, K. J. Cook, M. Dasgupta, D. J. Hinde, I. P. Carter, D. Y. Jeung, G. Mohanto, C. S. Palshetkar, E. Prasad, D. C. Rafferty, C. Simenel, K. Vo-Phuoc, E. Williams, L. R. Gasques, P. R. S. Gomes, and R. Linares,"Asymptotic and near-target direct breakup of 6Li and 7Li",Phys. Rev. C,93, 044605

  36. E. Prasad, A. Wakhle, D. J. Hinde, E. Williams, M. Dasgupta, M. Evers, D. H. Luong, G. Mohanto, C. Simenel, and K. Vo-Phuoc,"Exploring quasifission characteristics for 34S+232Th forming 266Sg",Phys. Rev. C,93,024607

  37. A. Shamlath, M. Shareef, E. Prasad et al.,,"Fission fragment mass distribution studies in reaction",Nucl. Phys. A,945, 67 (2016)

  38. E. Prasad et al.,,"Mass-asymmetric fission in the 40Ca+142Nd reaction",EPJ web of conferences,123,03006

  39. Ish Mukul, S. Nath, K. S. Golda, A. Jhingan, J. Gehlot, E. Prasad, Sunil Kalkal, M. B. Naik, Tathagata Banerjee, T. Varughese, P. Sugathan, N. Madhavan, and Santanu Pal,"Probing fusion-fission dynamics in 203Bi",Phys. Rev. C,92, 054606

  40. Laveen P V et al.,,"Fusion measurements for the O+ reaction and search for neutron shell closure effects",Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics,42, 095105

  41. E. Prasad, D. J. Hinde, K. Ramachandran, E. Williams, M. Dasgupta, I. P. Carter, K. J. Cook, D. Y. Jeung, D. H. Luong, S. McNeil, C. S. Palshetkar, D. C. Rafferty, C. Simenel, A. Wakhle, J. Khuyagbaatar, Ch. E. Düllmann, B. Lommel, and B. Kindler,"Observation of mass-asymmetric fission of mercury nuclei in heavy ion fusion",Phys. Rev. C,91, 064605

  42. Rohit Sandal, B. R. Behera, Varinderjit Singh, Maninder Kaur, A. Kumar, Gurpreet Kaur, P. Sharma, N. Madhavan, S. Nath, J. Gehlot, A. Jhingan, K. S. Golda, Hardev Singh, S. Mandal, S. Verma, E. Prasad, K. M. Varier, A. M. Vinodkumar, A. Saxena, Jhilam Sadhukhan, and Santanu Pal,"Probing nuclear dissipation via evaporation residue excitation functions for the 16,18O+198Pt reactions",Phys. Rev. C,91, 044621

  43. S. Santra, A. Pal, P. K. Rath, B. K. Nayak, N. L. Singh, D. Chattopadhyay, B. R. Behera, Varinderjit Singh, A. Jhingan, P. Sugathan, K. S. Golda, S. Sodaye, S. Appannababu, E. Prasad, and S. Kailas,"Effect of projectile breakup on fission-fragment mass distributions in the 6,7Li + 238U reactions",Phys. Rev. C,90, 064620 (2014)

  44. Maninder Kaur, B. R. Behera, Gulzar Singh, Varinderjit Singh, Rohit Sandal, A. Kumar, H. Singh, Gurpreet Singh, K. P. Singh, N. Madhavan, S. Nath, A. Jhingan, J. Gehlot, K. S. Golda, P. Sugathan, Davinder Siwal, Sunil Kalkal, E. Prasad, and S. Appannababu,"Anomalous deviations from statistical evaporation spectra for the decay of the 73Br and 77Rb compound systems",Phys. Rev. C,89, 034621 (2014)

  45. Rohit Sandal, B. R. Behera, Varinderjit Singh, Maninder Kaur, A. Kumar, G. Singh, K. P. Singh, P. Sugathan, A. Jhingan, K. S. Golda, M. B. Chatterjee, R. K. Bhowmik, Sunil Kalkal, D. Siwal, S. Goyal, S. Mandal, E. Prasad, K. Mahata, A. Saxena, Jhilam Sadhukhan, and Santanu Pal,"Effect of N/Z in pre-scission neutron multiplicity for 16,18O + 194,198Pt systems",Phys. Rev. C,87, 014604 (2013)

  46. G. Mohanto, N. Madhavan, S. Nath, E. Prasad et al.,,"Entrance channel effect on ER spin distribution",Nucl. Phys. A,890, 62 (2012)

  47. C. Yadav, R. G. Thomas, R. K. Choudhury, P. Sugathan, A. Jhingan, S. Appannababu, K. S. Golda, D. Singh, Ish Mukul, J. Gehlot, E. Prasad, and H. J. Wollersheim,"Evidence of quasifission in asymmetric reactions forming the 250Cf compound system",Phys. Rev. C,86, 034606 (2012)

  48. E.Prasad et al.,,"Fission fragment angular distribution measurements for 16O + 194Pt reaction at energies near the Coulomb barrier",Nucl. Phys. A,882, 62 (2012)

  49. E. Prasad, K. M. Varier, N. Madhavan, S. Nath, J. Gehlot, Sunil Kalkal, Jhilam Sadhukhan, G. Mohanto, P. Sugathan, A. Jhingan, B. R. S. Babu, T. Varughese, K. S. Golda, B. P. Ajith Kumar, B. Satheesh, Santanu Pal, R. Singh, A. K. Sinha, and S. Kailas,"Evaporation residue excitation function measurement for the 16O+194Pt reaction",Phys. Rev. C,84, 064604 (2011)

  50. Sunil Kalkal, S. Mandal, N. Madhavan, A. Jhingan, E. Prasad, Rohit Sandal, S. Nath, J. Gehlot, Ritika Garg, Gayatri Mohanto, Mansi Saxena, Savi Goyal, S. Verma, B. R. Behera, Suresh Kumar, U. D. Pramanik, A. K. Sinha, and R. Singh,"Multinucleon transfer reactions for the 28Si+90,94Zr systems in the region below and near the Coulomb barrier",Phys. Rev. C,83, 054607 (2011)

  51. S. Appannababu, S. Mukherjee, B. K. Nayak, R. G. Thomas, P. Sugathan, A. Jhingan, E. Prasad, D. Negi, N. N. Deshmukh, P. K. Rath, N. L. Singh, and R. K. Choudhury,"Fission fragment mass distributions in reactions forming the 213Fr compound nucleus",Phys. Rev. C,83, 034605 (2011)

  52. S. Nath, J. Gehlot, E. Prasad et al.,,"Angular momentum distribution for the formation of evaporation residues in fusion of 19F with 184W near the Coulomb barrier",Nucl. Phys. A,850, 22 (2011)

  53. S. Nath et al.,,"Angular momentum distribution for the formation of evaporation residues in fusion of 19F with 184W near the Coulomb barrier",Nuclear Physics A,850,22

  54. S. Nath, P. V. Madhusudhana Rao, Santanu Pal, J. Gehlot, E. Prasad, Gayatri Mohanto, Sunil Kalkal, Jhilam Sadhukhan, P. D. Shidling, K. S. Golda, A. Jhingan, N. Madhavan, S. Muralithar, and A. K. Sinha,"Evaporation residue excitation function from complete fusion of 19F with 184W",Phys. Rev. C,81, 064601 (2010)

  55. E. Prasad, K. M. Varier, R. G. Thomas, P. Sugathan, A. Jhingan, N. Madhavan, B. R. S. Babu, Rohit Sandal, Sunil Kalkal, S. Appannababu, J. Gehlot, K. S. Golda, S. Nath, A. M. Vinodkumar, B. P. Ajith Kumar, B. V. John, Gayatri Mohanto, M. M. Musthafa, R. Singh, A. K. Sinha, and S. Kailas,"Conclusive evidence of quasifission in reactions forming the 210Rn compound nucleus",Phys. Rev. C,81, 054608 (2010)

  56. Sunil Kalkal, S. Mandal, N. Madhavan, E. Prasad, Shashi Verma, A. Jhingan, Rohit Sandal, S. Nath, J. Gehlot, B. R. Behera, Mansi Saxena, Savi Goyal, Davinder Siwal, Ritika Garg, U. D. Pramanik, Suresh Kumar, T. Varughese, K. S. Golda, S. Muralithar, A. K. Sinha, and R. Singh,"Channel coupling effects on the fusion excitation functions for 28 Si + 90 , 94 Zr in sub- and near-barrier regions",Phys Rev C,81, 044610

  57. Sunil Kalkal, S. Mandal, N. Madhavan, E. Prasad, Shashi Verma, A. Jhingan, Rohit Sandal, S. Nath, J. Gehlot, B. R. Behera, Mansi Saxena, Savi Goyal, Davinder Siwal, Ritika Garg, U. D. Pramanik, Suresh Kumar, T. Varughese, K. S. Golda, S. Muralithar, A. K. Sinha, and R. Singh,"Channel coupling effects on the fusion excitation functions for 28 Si + 90 , 94 Zr in sub- and near-barrier regions",Phys Rev C,81, 044610

  58. E. Prasad et al.,,"Study of fission fragment mass distribution for 16O + 194Pt reaction",Nucl. Phys. A,834, 208c (2010)


 Group Members

 Research Projects Undertaken

DST-FIST

 DST

External

Quasi-elastic scattering studies in the 30Si+142,150Nd reactions at energies around the Coulomb barrier.

 IUAC, New Delhi

External, IUAC-UFR

“Systematic investigation of the effect of neutron excess in ER survival probability against fission in heavy ion fusion”,

 IUAC, New Delhi

IUAC UFR project, External

A systematic study of fusion and quasifission in heavy nuclei – paving the road to new element synthesis.

 Department of Science Technology

DST-RFBR (Indo-Russian bilateral) project, Major internatinal project

Searching the stabilizing effects of N=126 in compound systems formed in heavy ion collisions

 IUAC, New Delhi

External, Major project

 Patents

    None

 Miscellaneous

 Membership/Fellowship of other institutions/professionals societies :
 Student related co-curricular, extension and field based activities and counseling. 
1. Sports coordinator, Central University of Kerala (2017-till date)
2. Chairman, sports committee (2020- till date)
3. Chairman, Faculty Recreation Club
4. Convener, Program & Invitatio committe, Convocation 2021
 Contribution to corporate sector-management of the department and institution through participation in academic and administration,committees and responsibilities. 
1. Member, Court of CUK (VC nominee)
2. Member, Internal Complaints Cell, CU Kerala
3. Member, Centre for Women studies, CU Kerala
4. NAAC Department Coordinator, C U Kerala
5. Member, CUCET admission committee, CU Kerala
 Other activities/Responsibilities : 
1. Department Seminar coordinator
2. Joint Secretary, Department Alumni Association (2021- till date)
 Any other relevant information, if not given above :

 Contact

Full Name
 Dr. E Prasad
Address
 Thejaswini Hills, Periye
Telphone Number
(With STD Code)
 +91 7306420802
PinCode
 671320

 Teaching & Research Guidance

  • Modern Physics:Under Graduate
  • Nuclear and Particle Physics:Post Graduate
  • Nuclear Physics:Research Guidance
  • Thermodynamics:Under Graduate
  • Mathematical Physics:Post Graduate
  • Nuclear Reactions:Post Graduate
  • Nuclear Instrumentation:Post Graduate
  • Practical Physics III:Post Graduate