On Feb 4, 2023,  the IISER Pune community felicitated Prof. Deepak Dhar and Prof. K.N. Ganesh who are among the list of Padma awardees announced recently by the Government of India on the eve of the 2023 Republic Day.  The felicitation event began with a welcome address by the Director Pr...

In the Padma Awards announced on January 25, 2023, Distinguished Professor Emeritus Prof. Deepak Dhar from the Department of Physics was conferred Padma Bhushan Award, and Former and Founder Director of IISER Pune (currently Director of IISER Tirupati and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Chemist...

Dr. Bejoy Thomas from the Humanities and Social Sciences department was a contributing author to Chapter 18 of IPCC AR6 WG2 report titled "Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability". Some of the past and ongoing research by Dr. Thomas pertains to the topic of climate resilient devel...

Dr. Kalika Prasad from the Biology Department at IISER Pune has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS), Bengaluru. Dr. Kalika Prasad Founded in 1934, the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru is among the earliest science academies in India. Induction of new...

Dr. Nixon M. Abraham from the Biology Department at IISER Pune has been awarded the Senior Fellowship for Basic Biomedical Research by the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance.   Dr. Nixon M. Abraham DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance (India Alliance) is an independent, dynamic public ch...

Dr. Ramana Athreya, Associate Professor in the Physics and Biology departments at IISER Pune, has received the Wildlife Service Award for the year 2022 from the Sanctuary Nature Foundation.  Being given out annually since 2000, the Sanctuary Wildlife Awards were instituted by Sanctuary Nature ...

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai and IISER Pune have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to develop joint programmes in teacher education in Science and Mathematics. This unique programme, which will be anchored by the TISS-Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education (CETE), will en...

Here's a link to a short documentary put out by BBC on "Should we put a price on nature?" that features ideas from Prof. Sharacchandra Lele along with other experts on the topic. December 1, 2022...

Prof. Sara Ahmed is the founder of the Living Waters Museum, a virtual repository on water heritage in India. This article in The Hindu describes the work carried out through this initiative. December 2, 2022...

Water crisis has been documented as an important global risk by the World Economic Forum and rightly so. Fresh water supplies are subjected to constant contamination owing to increasing industrialisation and urbanisation. Studies have identified metal-based oxoanions, such as arsenate, as one of the...

Four PhD students and one Integrated PhD students are among those selected in a recent round of Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF). The PMRF scheme is aimed at attracting the talent pool of the country to PhD programmes of Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Indian Institutes of Science Edu...

Dr. Moumita Majumdar from the Chemistry department at IISER Pune has been awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.   Dr. Moumita Majumdar Humboldt Research Fellowships are granted to outstanding researcher...

Prof. Deepak Dhar, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and NASI-Senior Scientist in the Physics Department at IISER Pune, has been awarded the 2022 R.D. Birla Memorial Award in Physics by the Indian Physics Association (IPA). An announcement by the IPA is here.  The R.D. Birla Award in Physi...

Two teams of undergraduate students from IISER Pune participated in the 2022 iGEM synthetic biology competition this year. Both the teams have won gold medals, as announced during iGEM’s Grand Jamboree event held during October 26-28, 2022 in Paris.  The teams had worked on two separate ...

In an update from September 2022, five scientists from IISER Pune are among a list of top 2% scientists created by a team of researchers led by Prof. John P. A. Ioannidis from Stanford University. The list is based on the career-long citation impact of research papers of scientists.  In...

iRISE (Inspiring India in Research, Innovation and STEM Education) project hosted on IISER Pune campus is working towards improving the quality of classroom teaching in schools, especially in subjects related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Reported in the Indian Express, Octobe...

Prof. Sujit Ghosh's group from the department of Chemistry developed an adsorbent metal-organic-framework (MOF) with high capability of extracting uranium. Several news outlets have covered this work during August and September 2022. Find some of them at these links: Nature India, Indian Express, In...

Shoot regeneration in plants: how are the cells selected and what governs their journey to become a complete plant Plants have a remarkable ability to rebuild new shoot and root systems, and give rise to fully grown plants from any part when cultured under optimum conditions. This ability has been ...

IISER Pune celebrated the 76th Independence Day of India today with a flag hoisting ceremony followed by a cultural programme. Students, staff, and faculty members participated at the event along with their families. Addressing the gathering during the event, Director Prof. Jayant Udgaonkar spoke a...

Dr. Venketeswara Pai R., Associate Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at IISER Pune, has been selected to receive the Mahakavi Kalidas Sanskrit-Vrati National Award in the Young Scholar category for the year 2022. Presented to scholars in recognition of their work towards pr...