Sampat Kumar Tandon
Sampat Kumar Tandon
Guest Professor, Earth Sciences
- BSc: Panjab University, 1965
- MSc: Panjab University, 1966
- PhD: University of Delhi, 1972
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Selected Publications
- Misra. P., Sinha, R. Farooqui, A., Tandon, S.K., (2024) Landscape evolution of the Ganga-Sai interfluve in response to river dynamics and Late Pleistocene-Holocene climate change via a meander cut-off lake of a plains-fed channel, Geomorphology, 449, 109068.
- Dhiman, H., Verma,V., Singh,L.R., Miglani.V. Jha,D.K., Sanyal,P., Tandon, S.K., and Prasad, G.V.R. (2023) New Late Cretaceous titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg clutches from lower Narmada valley, India: Palaeobiology and Taphonomy, PLoS One,18(1). 1-40.e278242.
- Sinha, R. Mishra, K., and Tandon, S.K. (2023) Megafans of the Ganga Plains: A review of decades of research, in Editors Justin Wilkinson, and Y. Gunnell, Fluvial Megafans on Earth and Mars, 184-201, Cambridge University Press.
- Kumari, V. Tandon, S.K., Kumar,N. Ghatak, A. (2023) Implications of a geochemical approach to reconstruct the Maastrichtian-Danian seaways of Central India: The planktic foraminifera-bearing Jhilmili Intertrappean revisited, Cretaceous Research, 151, 105627.
- Tandon, S. K. and Sinha, R. (2022) Geology of Large River Systems in Editor Avijit Gupta Large River Systems and Their Management, Wiley 2nd edition,7-41.
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Work Experience
- Guest Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (May 2024 – Present)
- Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi (2005 -2010)
- Dean (Research & International Relations), University of Delhi (2001-
2006 - Dean (Faculty of Science), University of Delhi (1992-1993)
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Awards
- INSA Young Scientists Medal, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi - 1974
- Krishnan Gold Medal, Indian Geophysical Union, NGRI, Hyderabad - 1985
- Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore - 1987
- Bhatnagar Prize in Earth Science, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Delhi - 1988
- Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi - 1999