Dr John Mathew, Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at IISER Pune, was recently featured in an article in the English-language daily The Hindu. Dr Mathew has two doctorates to his credit, one in Ecology and another in the History of Science. His research interests include the Histo...

A particle physicist by training, Sunil Mukhi works on quantum field theory and string theory, areas in physics that have tried to identify and explain the physical forces of nature. Mukhi began his research career as a PhD student at Stony Brook University where he studied supergravity and supersym...

Three scientists from IISER Pune—G.V. Pavan Kumar, Sujit Ghosh, and M. Jeganmohan—have been awarded the Indian National Science Academy’s Medals for Young Scientists for 2013. These medals, which will be presented in December this year, recognize promising young investigators in India who have made ...

   A new bird species, Bugun Liocichla, was discovered in 2006 by Ramana Athreya, an astronomer by profession and an ecologist on the side. The bird is classified as a vulnerable species, with barely 14 or so individuals spotted so far. Government of India’s Department of Posts has released a com...

Milind Watve’s book Doves, Diplomats and Diabetes challenges the current understanding of diabetes and prods researchers to test his alternative model. Here, Watve chats with us on the origins of his book and of the ideas presented in there. When did the ideas presented in this book originate and...

SATB1, expanded as special AT-rich binding protein 1, has emerged in recent years as an important player in the maintenance of chromatin organization in living cells. This article studies the rise of SATB1 to the status of a global gene regulator and contributions of Prof. Sanjeev Galande, who leads...

Prof. Peter Schneider from the University of Muenster in Germany is one of the leading mathematicians working on p-adic methods in arithmetic and geometry. In recognition of his contributions to the field, he has been awarded the prestigious Leibniz Prize and the French-German Humboldt Prize. He was...

Arijit Bhattacharyay is an Assistant Professor in Physics and Biology at IISER Pune. His research interests are in the area of statistical physics and his work involves complex systems that have multiple degrees of freedom and generally not in equilibrium. Resistive regime of a superconductor repres...