Prof. Sunil. S. Bhagwat (Director of IISER Pune and Professor in Chemistry) has been elected a Fellow of the prestigious Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE). See here an announcement by INAE with the list of Elected Fellows for the year 2023, with effect from November 1, 2023.  Fo...

Faculty member Prof. Sujit K. Ghosh from the Chemistry department has received the Distinguished Lectureship Award of  the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) for the year 2023. This award recognises Prof. Ghosh's work in the area of coordination chemistry. The Lectureship Award is awarded to youn...

Faculty member Prof. Partha Hazra from the Chemistry department has received the JSPS Invitational Fellowship for Research in Japan (Short Term) for the Financial Year 2023 by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The JSPS carries out programmes that provide excellent researchers f...

Prof. Pinaki Talukdar, faculty member in the department of Chemistry at IISER Pune, has been selected to receive the 2023 National Prize for Bio-physical Chemistry Research. This award is given out by C.N.R. Rao Education Foundation. Prof. Pinaki Talukdar is one of the two awardees selected this yea...

Dr. Moumita Majumdar from the Chemistry department at IISER Pune has  won a Bronze Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI). CRSI is a premier professional chemical society of India established in 1999 with an aim to facilitate and promote research and education in all branches of ch...

In a paper published in the journal Nature Materials, Prof. Arun Venkatnathan’s group at IISER Pune studied the properties of lithium-ion battery materials at a molecular level using powerful computer simulation techniques. This work was carried out in collaboration with researchers from Templ...

Prof. Pinaki Talukdar, faculty member in the department of Chemistry at IISER Pune, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K. He received an invitation to be a Fellow through the 'Leaders in the Field’ scheme of the Society.  Prof. Pinaki Talukdar ...

The "Vigyan Vidushi", resource book published under the aegis of Vigyan Prasar, has acknowledged the scientific contributions of four of our outstanding women faculty colleagues, namely, Dr. Seema Sharma (Physics), Dr. Devapriya Chattopadhyay (Earth and Climate Sciences), Dr. Srabanti Chaudhury (Che...

Faculty member Dr. Srabanti Chaudhury from the Chemistry department has received the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)’s POWER Fellowship.The Promoting Opportunities for Women in Exploratory Research (POWER) Fellowship has been instituted by SERB as an...

Prof. Sujit K. Ghosh, faculty member in the department of Chemistry at IISER Pune, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K.  Prof. Ghosh's research group works in the area of inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry. Learn more about their work here.     ...

Along with PhD student Pooja Sindhu and collaborators, Prof. Nirmalya Ballav's group from the Chemistry department at IISER Pune designed a thin film made of two materials, referred to as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and captured metallic conduction at the interface where the two MOFs meet. Cons...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Prof. Sujit K. Ghosh, Professor of Chemistry at IISER Pune, has won a Bronze Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI).CRSI is a premier professional chemical society of India established in 1999 with an aim to facilitate and promote research and education in all branches of chemistry....

Computer simulations reveal molecular interactions and ion dynamics in sodium-ion battery electrolytes In a recent series of papers, Prof. Arun Venkatnathan’s group has been studying intermolecular interactions and ion dynamics in sodium battery electrolytes through state-of-the-art computer ...

In a recent paper in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, researchers from IISER Pune and Rice University studied a fascinating mechanism for catalysis. Their results offer clues to a more directed approach for designing new catalysts. Catalysts help accelerate a chemica...