Ten research scholars from IISER Pune have been selected for the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship. The PMRF scheme is aimed at attracting the talent pool of the country to PhD programmes of Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Indian Institutes of Science Education & Research (IIS...

A team of undergraduate students from IISER Pune won a gold medal at the 2023 iGEM synthetic biology competition, as announced during iGEM’s Grand Jamboree event held during November 2-5, 2023 in Paris.  They were the only team from India to bag a spot in the Top 10 undergraduate teams. ...

IISER Pune is observing Vigilance Awareness Week from October 30 to November 5, 2023, on the theme of "Say no to Corruption, commit to the Nation." The following events are being held at the institute as part of this.  1) The observance of Vigilance Awareness Week 2023 commenced with the inte...

Shri Ashok Rupner, Senior Technical Officer at the Science Activity Centre of IISER Pune has received the Yashkalyani National Vidnyan Prasar Puraskar 2023 from the Yashkalyani Sanstha (NGO). This award recognises Shri Rupner's work in science outreach and service to society. The award ceremony was...

Conferred to Prof. Bhagwat and institutional partners For a partnership with a significant contribution from Prof. Sunil. S. Bhagwat (Director of IISER Pune and Professor in Chemistry), the Indian Chemical Council conferred the ICC - K.V. Mariwala Award for Effective Chemical Industry-Academia Part...

With the goal of sparking curiosity in the minds of students about India's lunar mission, the Chandrayaan-3 Maha Quiz was launched on the Government of India's MyGov platform on September 1, 2023.  The purpose of this news post is to disseminate information about the quiz so that more students ...

In a recent paper published in the journal ACS Materials Letters, research groups of Prof. Sujit K. Ghosh and Prof. Satishchandra Ogale have synthesised a covalent-organic framework to sequester hazardous iodine waste and have employed it as a cathode material for Lithium-ion battery. Here, BS-MS st...

Two faculty members from IISER Pune Dr. Diptimoy Ghosh (Associate Professor, Physics Department) and Dr. Haripada Sau (Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department) have been selected as Associate Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi for the year 2023. A total of 40 Assoc...

Prof. Sunil. S. Bhagwat (Director of IISER Pune and Professor in Chemistry) has been elected a Fellow of the prestigious Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE). See here an announcement by INAE with the list of Elected Fellows for the year 2023, with effect from November 1, 2023.  Fo...

Dr. Arvind Natu has been appointed as the Chairperson of the Board of Governors of IISER Kolkata, for a second term of 3 years beginning from August 25, 2023. As the apex decision-making body appointed by the Government of India, the role of the Board includes overseeing and approving the decisions ...

Dr. Pooja Sancheti, faculty member in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department, has won the Rajendra Yadav Hans Anudit Katha Samman '23 for Best Translated Story. The award ceremony took place on August 28, 2023 at India International Centre, New Delhi. "Hans" is among the oldest and most pres...

Dr. Gayathri Pananghat, Associate Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has won the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India’s S. Ramachandran National Bioscience Award for Career Development for the year 2021.  Dr. Pananghat is among the ten awardees selected for this recogn...

The Aditya-L1 mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is scheduled for September 2, 2023. Prof. Bhas Bapat from IISER Pune has been involved with this work since his earlier tenure at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad and continues to be part of the team. He contributed in a m...

Two faculty members from the Mathematics department, Dr. Moumanti Podder (Assistant Professor) and Dr. Haripada Sau (Assistant Professor) have been selected as Associates of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS), Bengaluru for the year 2023.  Dr. Moum...

Faculty member Prof. Sujit K. Ghosh from the Chemistry department has received the Distinguished Lectureship Award of  the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) for the year 2023. This award recognises Prof. Ghosh's work in the area of coordination chemistry. The Lectureship Award is awarded to youn...

Faculty member Prof. Partha Hazra from the Chemistry department has received the JSPS Invitational Fellowship for Research in Japan (Short Term) for the Financial Year 2023 by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The JSPS carries out programmes that provide excellent researchers f...

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between IISER Pune and India Meteorological Department, Government of India on August 4, 2023. At the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between IISER Pune and India Meteorological Department: (Left to Right): Dr. Gyana Ranjan Tripathy (Chairperson...

IISER Pune participated at the Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam (ABSS) held during July 29-30, 2023 at New Delhi. This event was jointly organised by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship as part of the 3rd Anniversary of the National Education Policy-...

Dr. Mridula Nambiar and Dr. Gayathri Pananghat, from the Biology department, have been awarded DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate and Senior Fellowships, respectively, for the June 2023 round, in the category of Basic Biomedical Research. In this round of selection, a total of five Inter...

Prof. Pinaki Talukdar, faculty member in the department of Chemistry at IISER Pune, has been selected to receive the 2023 National Prize for Bio-physical Chemistry Research. This award is given out by C.N.R. Rao Education Foundation. Prof. Pinaki Talukdar is one of the two awardees selected this yea...