Dr. Nishad Matange, Assistant Professor in Biology and DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellow, is among those selected for the 2021 eLife Ben Barres Spotlight Award.    Dr. Matange is one of the ten winners selected this year. The award will support the research and career...

Two faculty members at IISER Pune, Dr. Mousomi Bhakta (Associate Professor, Mathematics Department) and Dr. Siddhesh Kamat (Associate Professor, Biology Department), are among those selected for the Department of Science and Technology (DST)’s SwarnaJayanti Fellowships for 2020-21.  ...

The Balan Group and IISER Pune have signed a Memorandum of Understanding towards building a dedicated space for science outreach on the institute campus. At the MoU signing between IISER Pune and Balan Group: (Left to Right) Dr. Aparna Deshpande, Dr. Sourabh Dube, Col (Retd.) G. Raja Sekhar,&nbsp...

Prof. Rajesh Gokhale, Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been appointed as the Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology. He will succeed Dr. Renu Swarup who has been in this role since 2018. Prof. Gokhale's appointment will be for a period of two years. To wish Prof. Gokhale on this occasi...

Dr. Srabanti Chaudhury and Prof. R. Boomi Shankar are among those selected to receive the Bronze Medals of the Chemical Research Society of India for 2022. The Bronze Medal of CRSI honors young researchers for their contributions to research in chemistry. The CRSI, a premier professional chemical s...

July 29, 2021 Gyana Tripathy is invited to deliver lecture in Jadavpur University (India) titled “Re-Os geochronology of organic-rich sedimentary rocks” July 16, 2021 Devapriya Chattopadhyay delivers an invited talk titled “Paleontological research inthe Indian subcontinent: at ...

In early September this year, the Sports Club and Sports Committee at IISER Pune initiated the "Step-up Step-in Challenge" where they called out to the institute members to walk, and, as a group, complete within two weeks a collective distance of 3500 kilometers, which corresponds to the approx...

The twenty-20 symposium, jointly organised by IISER Pune and IISc Mathematics departments took place on September 17-18, 2021. We had 40 online short research talks by members of both departments (faculty, post-docs, and advanced PhD students) over 2 days. We are hopeful that this activity would p...

Dr. Britto Sandanaraj’s group is working on developing new technologies and engineering new molecules for applications in the field of chemical biology and molecular imaging. In a recent set of papers, the group reported synthesis of new types of self-assembling artificial proteins and design ...

Dr. Sudipta Sarkar (Assistant Professor, Earth and Climate Science) has been elected a Fellow of Geological Society of London. Dr. Sudipta Sarkar The Geological Society of London is the oldest professional body of geologists in the world, founded in 1807. The Society works to improve know...

IISER Pune held a valedictory function today (August 13, 2021) where the 2021 outgoing batch of students were congratulated and awardees were felicitated through an online event. A recording of the event is here.  Dean (Academics) Prof. Bhas Bapat and Director and Chairperson of th...

IISER Pune has ranked seventh in the latest rankings of Indian scientific institutes, universities and colleges released by Nature Index. Indian Express reported on the news. July 27, 2021. ...

IISER Pune's Science Activity Centre has been conducting online science demonstration sessions throughout the pandemic period. These widely popular sessions are streamed on their YouTube channel, which recently reached 1.5 million viewers. Hindustan Times reported. July 26, 2021. ...

Dr. Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan, Associate Professor in Chemistry at IISER Pune, has been selected for the Prof. C. N. R. Rao Award for Research in Inorganic and Physical Chemistry for the year 2021. The award is given by the C. N. R. Rao Foundation and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ...

A fire broke out today in a chemistry laboratory of the Main Building of IISER Pune on the second floor around 12 noon. By around 2:30 pm, the fire was brought under control. We thank fire brigades from Pune Municipal Corporation, Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, and DRDO's High Energy Materi...

An epidemiological study of the COVID-19 pandemic by a group of scientists from various institutes, including Dr. Joy Monteiro of IISER Pune, has indicated that the case fatality ratio in Pune city has been dropping as the pandemic progressed. Indian Express reported. July 5, 2021. ...

Creating spaces for defined chemical interactions: a new phosphorus-based supramolecule to spot chirality In a recent paper in the journal Angewandte Chemie, Prof. R. Boomi Shankar’s group at IISER Pune described the design and synthesis of an amino-phosphonium supramolecule for the chiral re...

Dr. Raghav Rajan, Assistant Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been selected for the Senior Fellowship awarded by the DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance for the year 2020-2021. The Alliance, funded by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) of Government of India and Wellcome Trust of UK, support...

Prof. MS Santhanam and his team created a mathematical modeling based "hazard map" of Indian cities and towns to identify areas from where infectious diseases can rapidly spread. The news was covered by Times of India 1, 2, 3,  Indian Express, News 18. June 12, 2021. ...

IISER Pune is a part of a consortium of institutions who would be carrying out genomic surveillance of the SARS-COV2 virus to track changes in its genome. This was reported by Indian Express, Times of India. June 11, 2021 ...