Raja Ram Yadav

Raja Ram Yadav is a professor of Physics worked at University of Allahabad and former vice-chancellor of Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University.

Education and career

Yadav completed his B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD from University of Allahabad in 1977, 1979 and 1988 respectively. He served as a geophysicist in the Oil and Natural Gas Commission for the government of India from 1983 to1988, when he resigned and became RSS Pracharak from 1988 to 1992. Since July 1992, he has worked as a lecturer of Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramoday Vishwavidyalaya. He joined University of Allahabad in 1996 as an associate professor and became a professor in 2004. In 2017 he was named as vice chancellor of Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, a post he served until 2020. He is currently serving as head of the Department of Physics in the University of Allahabad.