Prof. Kalachand Sain, FNA, FASc, FNASc, FTAS

Prof. Sain obtained M.Sc. (Tech) in App. Geophysics from IIT-ISM, Dhanbad, and Ph.D. in Active Seismology from CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Hyderabad in 1995. He visited Cambridge University (UK) and Rice University (USA) as post-doctoral Fellow, and USGS (USA) as Visiting Scientist. After attaining the age of 60 years, he has superannuated as Director of Dehradun-based Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) – A DST-Institute, GoI, and been continuing his research and mentoring students as JC Bose National Fellow initially at WIHG and later at CSIR-NGRI. He also held additional charge as Director of Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleo Sciences – another DST-institute, Lucknow for a small span till a new director joined. Earlier, he was Chief Scientist and Head of Seismic Group at CSIR-NGRI. He is an honorary Outstanding Prof. at AcSIR, Ghaziabad and Advisor at DST Centre of Excellence for Climate Information – IIT Delhi.