Dr. Anirudh Pradhan, Distinguished Professor and Director He has also worked as Dean (R & D) at GLA University.  Dr. Pradhan has worked as a Visiting Professor in the University of Zululand, South Africa, Yasouj University, Iran, INSPEM, Malaysia, JINR Russia. Research field of Dr. Pradhan is Classical Relativity, Cosmology and Astrophysics. He has published more than 350 (SCI/SCOPUS) research papers in internationally reputed scientific journals with high impact factors. More than twenty-five students have obtained their Ph. D. degrees under his guidance and they all are well placed in different institutes of higher learning. Dr. Pradhan is also a Visiting Associate of two nationally reputed autonomous institutes of higher research learning (i) Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune (2002-2022) and (ii) Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc.), Chennai (Madras) (2009-2012). He has been awarded Dr. Abdul Kalam Gold Medal on the occasion of 38th National Unity Conference on Individual Achievements & National Development on 15th October 2016 at Bangalore by Global Economic Progress and Research Association. He has also been awarded Bharat Ratna Rajiv Gandhi Gold Medal Award for his individual achievements and national development on 20th August, 2017.  In recognition to his scholarship & research potentialities the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia has granted the Project No. 02-10-10-969 FR on the topic “To Study on Cosmological Constant Problem”. This project was associated by Prof. H. Zainuddin (Malaysia) and Prof. H. Amirhashchi (Iran). He has also completed four major projects funded by UGC and DST. 

He has 7 books and more than 100 research papers to his credit. He has delivered several talks in India and Abroad and organised several academic meetings. He is also working on 2 research projects as PI and 2 research projects Co-PI, and coordinating the “Centre of Excellence” project awarded by UP State Govt.