Prof. Bal Krishna Rastogi is the former director general of the Institute of Seismological Research, Gandhinagar, and former head of Seismology at India's National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad. He is the founder and president of the Indian Society of Earthquake Science (ISES). He has been instrumental in developing several strong Seismology groups in India. His areas of research in seismology include probabilistic and deterministic seismic hazard assessment; seismic microzonation; earthquake hazard assessment for critical structures, like nuclear power plants, LNG terminals and dams; induced seismicity, source-mechanism of earthquakes, and earthquake prediction; plate tectonics, microearthquake surveys, and homogenization of earthquake catalogues and seismotectonics.