Pandit has been focusing his work on the problems related to
phase transitions,
statistical mechanics and
non-linear dynamics,
Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation and Complex-Ginzburg-Landau equations. His contributions reportedly include theoretical elucidation of
multilayer-adsorption and wetting phenomena on attractive substrates and the scaling properties of
quasiperiodic Schroedinger operators. and a
cardiac arrhythmias model and his studies have assisted in a wider understanding of low-amplitude
defibrillation schemes and
cardiac arrhythmias.
Glass formation in soft condensed matter systems, interacting bosons, colossal magnetoresistance manganites and complex fluids have been some of his other interests. and the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 79 of them. Besides, he has mentored 15 research scholars in their doctoral studies. He is the secretary of the
C3 Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics and has held the chair of IUPAP national committee in India. He is a former divisional associate editor of
Physical Review Letters journal (2004–10) and a former member of the editorial advisory board of
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications of
Elsevier (2001–07). and sits on the editorial board of
Cambridge IISc Series, a publishing collaboration between the Indian Institute of Science and
Cambridge University Press India. He has delivered invited speeches at various conferences including the
International Symposium on Fluid Days held in December 2007–January 2008. == Awards and honors ==