Pankaj Jain is presently the Vice President (Academics) of the South Asian University. As a Professor of Mathematics, he is also holding the positions of Dean of three faculty, namely, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Faculty of Chemical Sciences.

He obtained M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from University of Delhi. During his teaching career of about 35 years, he has taught various courses in Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Computer Applications, both at under-graduate as well as at post-graduate level. He has more than 100 research papers to his credit, published in various international journals of repute. So far, he has produced 19 PhDs. He has obtained research grants from several government agencies such as UGC, CSIR, DST, NBHM. He is recipient of several grants such as Indo-Russian S&T Project, BOYSCAST Fellowship of DST for Post Doc work to visit Sweden for one year, visited UK three times (3 months each time) under the Exchange Programme of Royal Society. Besides, he keeps participating in various Scientific Meetings/Conferences in India and abroad. So far, he has delivered over 70 invited talks including 38 outside India. He is on the editorial board of several mathematical journals, in particular, he is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Indian Mathematical Society.