Kanchan Pande

[1] He is known for his studies on the evolution of continental flood basalts in the Indian subcontinent[2] and is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.

[4][note 1] Kanchan Pande, born on 14 March 1958 in the Indian state of Uttaranchal, completed his master's degree in geology at Kumaun University in 1981 and secured PhD in Geochronology and Isotope geology from Gujarat University in 1990.

However, his service as a professor at PRL lasted only 5 months and in June 2003, he moved to the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai as a professor at the department of earth sciences and retired from the post in March 2023.

[6] Pande is known to have done extensive research on the geochronology of the region covering the Deccan Traps.

[7] His researches are reported to have assisted in understanding the geochronological constraints for the evolution of continental flood basalts in the Indian subcontinent and highlighted their geological and geochemical impact[2] which has been detailed in an article, Age and duration of the Deccan Traps, India: A review of radiometric and paleomagnetic constraints, published in June 2002.