Prof. LS Shashidhara has been elected as President of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS). The announcement was made at General Assembly of the Union which took place this week at Oslo, Norway where the new Executive Council of the Union was chosen. His term will be for the next th...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat, Assistant Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been awarded the ‘Young Scientist Medal’ of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi for 2019. INSA is a body of Indian scientists founded in 1935 for promotion of scientific knowledge in the country. One of their ...

Three IISER Pune students are among those selected for the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF). The list of selected students has been announced recently and is available at this link. The PMRF scheme is aimed at attracting the talent pool of the country to PhD programmes of Indian Institu...

The Manav Human Atlas project, a collaboration between IISER Pune, Persistent Systems, and the National Centre for Cell Science, was launched on May 10, 2019 by the DBT Secretary Dr. Renu Swarup. Funded by the Department of Biotechnology, this project aims to construct a comprehensive map of the...

Prof. Shyam Rai has been selected to receive the Professor Naha Memorial Medal for 2019 by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi. The Medal was established in 1996 from an endowment by the family members of Professor Naha to commemorate the memory of late Professor Kshitindramohan...

Dr Siddhesh Kamat, Assistant Professor in Biology at IISER Pune and Wellcome-DBT IA Fellow, has been selected for the UAA-ICT Distinguished Alumnus Award in the Young Achiever category for the year 2019. Instituted by the UDCT Alumni Association (UAA), this award recognises alumni of the Institut...

IISER Pune has been ranked 23 in the overall category of the 2019 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) India Rankings. Initiated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2015, this is the fourth year of NIRF's India Rankings.   NIRF uses 5 parameters to rank institutions...

Dr. Arvind Natu has been nominated to be the Chairperson of the Board of Governors of IISER Kolkata; the nomination was made by the President of India in his capacity as the Visitor for IISER Kolkata, and the appointment is for a period of three years. As the apex decision-making body appointed b...

Two IISER Pune members, Dr. Ulfat Baig and Dr. Gunjan Verma, have been selected for 2018 AWSAR Awards given by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. “Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR)” is a DST initiative with an aim to disseminate Indian resear...

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kanpur has appointed Prof A Raghuram as a Distinguished Honorary Professor for a period of three years. Raghuram studies the special values of L-functions. The idea of an L-function is ubiquitous in modern number theory. The basic theorems and con...

National Science Day is celebrated in India every year on February 28, to mark the discovery of Raman Effect by Sir. C. V. Raman. It is a day to inspire students to learn scientific ideas and to spread scientific temper in society. On the occasion of National Science Day 2019, Smt. Indrani Balan ...

Dr Anup Biswas has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the journal Annals of Applied Probability for the period 2019-2021. Published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Annals of Applied Probability is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers with important contributions to the...

Dr S G Srivatsan, Associate Professor in Chemistry at IISER Pune, has been selected for the 2019 CDRI Awards for Excellence in Drug Research in the Chemical Sciences category. He has been selected for this award along with Dr T Govind Raju, Associate Professor, JNCASR, Bengaluru. Instituted by th...

IISER Pune is now a member of the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium). This places IISER Pune in the league of 20 of the major mouse genetics centres worldwide and adds tremendous value to IISER Pune's research capabilities. IMPC was set up about 10 years back to build on the effort...

Prof. Satish Ogale has been awarded the Raja Ramanna Fellowship of the DAE for Senior Scientists. Prof. Ogale works in the area of clean energy. Instituted in 2000, this fellowship from the Department of Atomic Energy engages with scientists and technologists involved in developing critical techn...

In a new partnership that was formalised on November 19, 2018, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune and Tata Technologies will come together to train school teachers towards improving the quality of science and mathematics education in schools, with a key focus on children...

Dr. G.V. Pavan Kumar, Associate Professor in Physics at IISER Pune, has been selected for the Swarnajayanti Fellowship in the area of Physical Sciences for the year 2017-2018. Awarded by the Govt. of India’s Department of Science and Technology to a selected number of young scientists, the Swarnajay...

IISER Pune-IDeaS Scholarship awardees for Fall 2018 are now announced. The selected students include 10 BS MS students, 4 Integrated PhD students, and 5 PhD students. Congratulations to all the awardees! The selection was based on grades during the first two semesters at IISER Pune and the award...

Abhijit Gupta and Shubham Singh, both from IISER Pune, have won the first prize at the ‘Python Innovation Day Hackathon’. Kicked off in June 2018 and the first of its kind in India, the online Python Hack fury (Hackathon) was organized by Intel, IISER Pune and Amazon Web services with an aim to m...

The 21st century has been marked by rapid progress in virtually every field of Science and Technology. As a result, practitioners in both industry and academia are often left to tackle modern problems with out-dated concepts and skill-sets. This not only hampers the career progress of individua...