Harshini Tekur, PhD student in Physics at IISER Pune, has been selected for a Merit Prize at the Asian Scientist Writing Prize 2017 competition. Open to all across Asia, this science writing competition invites non-fiction articles of ~1500 words covering any scientific discipline. The 2017 competit...

Karishma Bansal, an IISER Pune alumnus, is part of a team of researchers that detected for the first time, two supermassive black holes orbiting each other, in a galaxy about 750 million light years away from Earth. Times of India reported. July 8, 2017 ...

Karishma Bansal, an IISER Pune alumnus, is part of a team of researchers that detected for the first time, two supermassive black holes orbiting each other, in a galaxy about 750 million light years away from Earth. She is also the lead author of the paper 'Constraining the Orbit of the Supermassive...

Dr Neelesh Dahanukar was involved in the discovery and classification of a new species of burrowing frog from Maharashtra. Hindustan Times covered the news. June 28, 2017. ...

Dr. Sudipta Basu and Dr. Nirmalya Ballav have developed a novel cancer drug-delivery system using graphene oxide nanoparticles. Science Chronicle and The Hindu reported. June 24, 2017. ...

Dr Thomas Pucadyil was recently named HHMI International Scholar, the only Indian scientist among 41 biomedical researchers from sixteen countries. Indian Express reported the news. June 14, 2017. ...

On the 19th of May, 109 BS MS students and one Integrated PhD & 41 PhD students were awarded their degrees during the sixth convocation ceremony of IISER Pune.  Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, National Research Professor & Padma Vibhushan awardee and current President of the Global Research Alliance was the Ch...

Dr Thomas Pucadyil, Associate Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been chosen as an International Research Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). He is one of the 41 scientists from sixteen countries chosen this year from over 1400 applications. The selection for this award that ...

Bhaskara Lab - a new computer lab is being set up at IISER Pune. It is being established under the Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure (FIST) scheme of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. The fund is meant for universities and higher education institutions to stre...

Dr Harinath Chakrapani's group developed a small molecule that is being tested for reversing bacterial drug resistance. The Hindu and Journosdiary (a blog) covered the news. May 6, 2017. ...

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

In the introductory solid state physics courses, lattice vibrations in a crystal are typically introduced by considering first a hypothetical one-dimensional chain of atoms, which can be solved fully making it easier to grasp the idea of phonons (quanta of lattice waves) without really worrying abou...

In contrast to the mundane classical world we experience in our daily life, the quantum world is known to be both elusive and strange - like the Shroedinger's cat that can be both alive and dead at the same time. Clearly, it requires considerable effort to maintain such delicate quantumness from fal...

Dr Chaitanya Athale's article about his group's work on development of an image analysis tool for live cell microscopy was published in 'From the Lab' feature of Indian Express, April 17, 2017. ...

2012 batch BS-MS student of IISER Pune, Yaikhomba Mutum, has won the prestigious Gates Scholarship to study at St. John's College in Cambridge University, UK The Gates Cambridge scholarship was instituted in the year 2000 through a US$ 210 million donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...

IISER Pune BS-MS student Yaikhomba Mutum won the Gates Cambridge scholarship to pursue his PhD at University of Cambridge, UK. Hindustan Times, Imphal Free Press and Imphal Times reported the news. April 12, 2017. ...

IISER PUNE celebrated its annual Math Day -  a perfect amalgamation of mathematics and fun, on the 11th of March, 2017, the Saturday closest to Pi (3.14) day. As a prelude to the event a symposium titled : "An App called Math" was organized on the 4th of March. It consisted of a series of thought...

In a recent article, Dr. Sutirth Dey from IISER Pune, along with researchers from JNCASR, Bangalore and IISER Mohali, have critically analysed the literature on the idea of niche construction (NC) in evolutionary biology and have questioned several claims of the proponents of NC. Niche constructi...

On 11th February 2016, physicists announced the first ever direct observation of gravitational waves, propagating distortions of the fabric of space and time that travel billions of light years. The discovery set the scientific world abuzz and was regarded as the final proof for Einstein’s theory of...

Abhishek Swarnkar, Integrated PhD student at the institute has been selected to participate in the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting taking place from June 25 to 30, 2017 in Lindau, Germany. He is one of the 400 young scientists from around the globe who have been offered this opportunity to experi...