[2] After education, Sood joined his alma mater Punjab University as a teacher in 1960.

[2] In 1969, Sood returned to India to join as the Head of Physics department at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU).

Sood continued till 1991 at the BHU, where he trained several generations of nuclear scientists and researchers.

He was the founder-director of the first computer centre at BHU and set up the first Van de Graffe Accelerator there among other new facilities.

[2][1] Prakash Chandra Sood is a fellow of The National Academy of Sciences (FNASc).