Dr. Arvind Natu has been appointed as a member of the IISER Standing Committee, which was set up originally in 2016 in order to have a focused approach on the issues specific to IISERs and to make suitable recommendations to the NITSER Council. The reconstituted committee was announced on September ...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at IISER Pune, has been awarded the 2024 Infosys Prize in the Life Sciences category. The announcement was made today by the Infosys Science Foundation at an event in Bengaluru. The award citation to Dr. Kamat reads as follows: The I...

A new industry-academia collaboration initiative, the Centre for Intelligent Solutions, was inaugurated  during the 2024 Industry Conclave event that took place on September 14, 2024. Since the event brought together professionals from the industry and IISER Pune faculty, postdocs, and students...

Dr. Kalika Prasad from the Department of Biology has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). Founded in 1930, NASI is the oldest science academy in India and supports scientific excellence across all disciplines. Election as a Fellow of NASI is a prestigious hono...

Dr. Venketeswara R. Pai from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences has been honoured with the Satish Bhatnagar Award for the year 2024 by the Indian Mathematical Society (IMS). The Satish Bhatnagar Award has been instituted by the Indian Mathematical Society to recognise the best researc...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at IISER Pune, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K.  A professional body for chemical scientists and one of the oldest chemical societies in the world, the Royal Society of Chemistry supports and ...

Prof. Angshuman Nag, faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at IISER Pune, has been awarded the National Prize for Research in Chemical Physics for the year 2024 by the C.N.R. Rao Education Foundation. The award ceremony was held at JNCASR, Bengaluru on September 25, 2024.  C.N.R. ...

Prof. Anjan Banerjee from the Department of Biology and Prof. Pinaki Talukdar from the Department of Chemistry have been elected as Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi. A total of 63 fellows have been newly elected as Fellows this year from across various science instit...

Prof. Sujit K. Ghosh from the Department of Chemistry is among those selected for the Society for Materials Chemistry (SMC) Silver Medal-2024 Award for the year 2024. The SMC Awards 2024 will be conferred at the 10th  DAE – BRNS Interdisciplinary Symposium on Materials Chemistry (ISMC2024...

In a significant step towards fostering creativity and innovation, Kalpakghar - Community STEM-Tinkering Centre was inaugurated on August 21, 2024 at Pimpri Chinchwad Science Park, Pune. Kalpakghar is a collaborative STEM-tinkering project between IISER Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad Science Park and is ...

Prof. Jayant B. Udgaonkar from the Department of Biology is among those selected for the Vigyan Shri Award for the year 2024 announced here yesterday. This is part of the new Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar awards initiated by the Government of India to honour exceptional contributions to the fields of sc...

Three members from IISER Pune have been selected for prestigious awards by the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) for the year 2025. The Founding Director of IISER Pune Prof. K. N. Ganesh (presently at JNCASR, Bengaluru), has been selected for the CRSI Gold Medal. This prestigious honour ref...

Ignite Life Science Foundation, with support from IndianOil Corporation and Teekays Foundation, funded the acquisition of a multi-mode plate reader to enable high throughput research at IISER Pune.   Multi-mode plate readers are used in various fields such as biochemistry, molecular biolo...

Faculty member Prof. Sujit K. Ghosh from the Chemistry department has been selected to receive Dr. P.N. Pathak Memorial Award for the year 2024. This award has been instituted by the Association of Separation Scientists and Technologists (ASSET) in honour of the late Dr. P.N. Pathak (1970-2014), a ...

With the launch of the National Quantum Mission, there is a pressing need for a skilled workforce in Quantum Technologies. With this goal in mind, IISER Pune is pleased to announce the launch of a new Masters programme in Quantum Technology.  This two-year programme will equip students with th...

Faculty member Dr. Srabanti Chaudhury from the Chemistry department has been awarded the DAAD Scholarship for Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists, 2024. The scholarship aims at supporting short-term research stays and exchange of experience and networking amongst colleagues i...

Prof. Pinaki Talukdar, faculty member in the department of Chemistry at IISER Pune, has been elected as a Fellow of the prestigious West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology for the year 2023. Prof. Talukdar has also recently received the JSPS Invitational Fellowship for Research in Japan (Short...

Diplomate degree in the Indian College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (DICLAM) 2023 to Dr. N. Krishnaveni Jayakumar January 5, 2024 Dr. N. Krishnaveni Jayakumar received a Diplomate certification from the Indian College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ICLAM). The certificate was awarded to her d...

Dr. Ashish Arora, Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at IISER Pune, received the "Young Achiever Award" at the 67th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium held in Vizag from December 20-24, 2023. This symposium is organised annually by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai under sponsorshi...

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...