[5] Her Father Appa Saheb Pant was a respected diplomat and served Government of India for forty years.
[7] Studying this target organism in the open sea proved to be very problematic and strenuous, and with help from her mentor Dr. M S Doty, Pant decided to focus on a single bacterium model before moving to a larger community.
[7] Due to financial constraints, her advanced education abroad was not easy to obtain, so it was a joyous event when she got a US Government grant to the University of Hawaiʻi.
Her proposition depended on photosynthesis in tiny fish networks as she was first presented to this marine structure in the book "The Open Sea".
At NIO between 1973–76, they were bound by the exigencies of our circumstance to beachfront investigations and probably secured the entire west bank of India from Veraval to Kanyakumari and the Gulf of Mannar.
[9][10][11] Along with structural geologist Sudipta Sengupta, Aditi Pant was the first Indian woman to set foot on Antarctica.
[5][12] Pant's expedition was aimed at gathering information related to food chain physics, chemistry, and biology in the Antarctic Ocean.
[7] Under the severe and harsh climate conditions Dr. Aditi Pant studied the mainland for four months and turned out with brilliant disclosures.
[5] During the course of the mission, the team built Dakshin Gangotri, the first Indian scientific research base station of Antarctica (located 2,500 km from the South Pole).