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Prof. Satishchandra B. Ogale has received the India Energy Storage Alliance's "Researcher of the Year" award in an award function held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi on May 3, 2023 during the 2023 India Energy Storage Week (IESW) .    This is an Industry Excellence Award instituted by th...

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 ...

Effective today, April 22, 2023, Prof. Sunil S. Bhagwat has taken charge as the Director of IISER Pune. Prior to joining IISER Pune, Prof. Bhagwat was at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, popularly known as the UDCT, for its former name as the University Department of Chemical Technology...

IISER Pune is delighted to announce the appointment of Prof. Sunil Bhagwat from the Institute of Chemical Technology-Mumbai as the next Director of IISER Pune. Prof. Bhagwat will be the third Director since the founding of IISER Pune in 2006, and will succeed Prof. Jayant Udgaonkar who has led IISER...

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.     ...

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...

Rufford Foundation's research grant to Akashdeep Roy January 23, 2023   PhD student Akashdeep Roy has received a research grant from the Rufford Foundation. The amount received from this grant will be used to conduct the fieldwork for the PhD titled 'Understanding the construction of human-w...

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. 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...

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...

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...

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....

Dr. Richa Rikhy, Associate Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been selected for the Senior Fellowship awarded by the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance. Dr. Rikhy is one of the four awardees of IA's Senior Fellowship for 2022 in the category of Basic Biomedical Research.    Funded ...