Sandip Pal is an Atmospheric Scientist and academic advisor of Atmospheric Science Minor program in Texas Tech University. His research expertise includes boundary layer meteorology, land-atmosphere interaction, biosphere-atmosphere interaction with emphasis on carbon cycle science, lidar remote sensing and mountain meteorology. He has served as the reviewer for more than 50 high-impact international journals of meteorology and atmospheric sciences. Sandip worked in four different countries in 10 different universities. He has a BSc and MSc in physics from the University of Calcutta and University of Kalyani, respectively, and a PhD in atmospheric science from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. 

He earned his Ph.D. (magna cum laude) in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany in Feb 2009. His thesis work involves development and application of an eye safe mobile scanning aerosol lidar system for studying atmospheric boundary layer and aerosol transport mechanisms in the lower troposphere. He became postdoctoral scholar at the same place after completing his dissertation. Between 2010 and 2012, Sandip worked in two French Laboratories (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) and LMD-Ecole Polytechnique) in Paris, France. Between February 2013 and August 2015, he worked in the University of Virginia as a Research Associate. Afterward, Sandip was affiliated as an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at The Pennsylvania State University and started working on the ACT-America project. Currently, Sandip is an Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Science in Texas Tech University in Luubock, Texas. He received 3 federal grants (NOAA and NASA) as the principal investigator in the last 3 years. Pal is the author and coauthor of more than 37 peer-reviewed articles and more than 150 conference and symposium proceedings and technical and scientific reports. He served as journal referee for more than 50 different international journals and as an editorial board members for three international journals.