Prof. Amit Hogadi from the Department of Mathematics and Prof. Angshuman Nag from the Department of Chemistry have been elected as Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bengaluru. The Academy has announced a total of 40 fellows have been newly elected as Fellows in 2024 from across the ...

Prof. R. Boomi Shankar, faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, has been honoured with the prestigious CRS Silver Star Award by the Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha (CRS) of India at the "Rasayan 20" Symposium held at the Vidyasagar University, Midnapore. From the award ceremony at the "Rasayan 2...

Dr. Krishanpal Karmodiya, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at IISER Pune, is among those selected for the prestigious EMBO Global Investigator Network.  The EMBO Global Investigator Network supports young group leaders in Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan, and, in a pilot project...

Prof. Satishchandra B. Ogale, Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Physics at IISER Pune and Director of TCG-CREST, Kolkata, has been selected to receive the  2026 TWAS Award in Physics, Astronomy, and Space Sciences by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). These prestigious awards are given ev...

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...

IISER Pune expresses its deepest condolences on the demise of Shri Ratan Tata, a visionary leader and philanthropist.  Shri Ratan Tata (Photo: tata.com) Several outreach initiatives at IISER Pune have had support from the Tata Group of companies, including Tata Technologies Ltd., TCS Foun...

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...

Prof. Srinivas Hotha, faculty member in the department of Chemistry at IISER Pune, is among the recipients of the 2024 National Awards to Teachers in Higher Educational Institutions by the Ministry of Education, Government of India.  The awards were presented by the President of India Droupadi...

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...

In a recent paper published in the journal ACS Omega, Prof. Sudha Rajamani’s group explored how life may have originated on early Earth by testing if a nucleotide analogue made of barbituric acid could be used to make RNA. What they found prompted them to propose that barbituric acid could hav...

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...