Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, R.T.M. Nagpur, University, Nagpur, India.

Dr. Samant has worked as a lecturer at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. So far, she has completed seven research projects awarded by various national funding agencies. Dr. Samant has published about 45 research papers including one in "Nature Communication." Her Google h-index is 15 and i10 index is 22. She visited the University of Florida as a visiting scientist under National Science Foundation (NSF), USA funded research projects (2014-2018).