IISER Pune is organising a 3-week orientation camp for girls from rural Maharashtra studying in Class XI under DST's Vigyan Jyoti scheme. Indian Express and Hindustan Times reported. May 10, 2018. ...

India Science Wire and APNLive reported on a workshop on Research Management that was held at IISER Pune under the aegis of IRMI, an initiative of the Wellcome-DBT India Alliance. May 5, 2018. ...

Dr. Mousomi Bhakta received INSA Young Scientist Medal for 2018. The news was reported by The Times of India. May 3, 2018. ...

From being a bachelor student in physics to a researcher in climate science, Dr. Neena Joseph Mani’s career story takes us through the vagaries of the weather and the means to understanding the same. At IISER Pune’s Earth and Climate Science discipline that investigates systems with timescales as va...

Dr Mousomi Bhakta, Assistant Professor in Mathematics at IISER Pune, has won the ‘Young Scientist Medal’ of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi. The INSA, a body of Indian scientists created in 1935 for promotion of scientific knowledge in the country, awards the Young Scienti...

Dr. Arun Venkatnathan and his group, in collaboration with researchers from Temple University, USA, are working on ways to make mobile phone batteries safer and preventing their explosion. Sakal Times and Hindustan Times wrote about their findings. April, 2018. ...

Dr. Deepak Barua's work on the relationship between leaf traits and thermotolerance of plants was reported by Research Matters. April 16, 2018. ...

Dr. Rejish Nath and his team at IISER Pune involving his students Yashwant Chougale and Sagarika Basak have recently reported their work on quantum dynamics in the journal Physical Review Letters. Here, the team describes their main findings from this work.The movements of classical objects are easy...

Dr. Anand Krishnan's research on how Egyptian fruit bats navigate was covered by Research Matters. April 3, 2018 ...

Dr Sujit Ghosh, Associate Professor in Chemistry at IISER Pune, has won the AVRA Young Scientist Award for 2017. The award, constituted by the A V Rama Rao Research Foundation, promotes and encourages excellence in science & technology and comes with a cash prize and memento. The parent concern o...

Dr. Suhita Nadkarni's career journey and research on neuroscience was profiled by Firstpost as part of their series on Indian Women in Science. March 22, 2018 ...

One of the main improvements required in the field of Lithium ion batteries is to make them safer, more compact and more stable. However, the current generation batteries are made with flammable organic medium which could result in explosion and fire, and damage the battery compartment. Additionally...

Dr. Pushkar Sohoni led a Heritage Walk at an old church in Pune. Pune Mirror reported. March 21, 2018. ...

Xytel India Private Limited has given a one-time endowment of Rupees Thirty lakh ten thousand to IISER Pune, to be used for giving awards to the best PhD and Masters theses every year. Xytel India, a premier project and process engineering organisation, has given this endowment under the aegis of...

Dr Pinaki Talukdar, Associate Professor in Chemistry at IISER Pune, has won the ‘National Bioscience Award’ given by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India. The award consists of a cash prize, citation and a research contingency grant for a period of three years. It is given by the DBT  ...

IISER Pune and Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a dual degree programme (DDP) in Solid Earth Science for students pursuing BS-MS at IISER Pune. This will be a part of the IPGP Master of Research programme. One to two student...

Dr G V Pavan Kumar’s group has experimentally shown for the first time, that Raman and fluorescence components of scattered light behave differently when confined to a plasmonic nano-cavity - a finding that may have applications in several fields. The news was reported by Sakal Times and Indian Exp...

Prof A. A. Natu was nominated by the Chancellor as member of the Academic Council of SP Pune University till August 2022. A Marathi Daily covered the news. January 31, 2018. ...

Dr G V Pavan Kumar’s group at IISER Pune, in collaboration with researchers at Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, USA, have experimentally shown for the first time, that Raman and fluorescence components of scattered light behave differently when confined to a plasmonic nan...

Dr. Kundan Sengupta and team's work on nuclear protein lamin B2 showed for the first time that it is involved in determination of morphology and function of the nucleolus. The Hindu reported the news. January 29, 2018. ...