Prof. Pinaki Talukdar, faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, has been selected to receive the prestigious CRS Silver Star Award given by the Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha (CRS). The CRS Silver Star Medal is a prestigious recognition conferred by CRS to honour individuals who have made outstand...

Prof. Shyam Sundar Rai from the Department of Earth and Climate Science at IISER Pune has been selected to receive the prestigious National Geoscience Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Ministry of Mines, Government of India. The National Geoscience Awards are conferred to honour individuals and...

The CMS Collaboration, of which the research groups of Prof. Seema Sharma and Prof. Sourabh Dube from IISER Pune are members, is among the experimental collaborations selected to receive the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, announced earlier this year in April. The Breakthrough Prize...

Dr. Ashish Arora from the Department of Physics has been selected as a member of the Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS).  INYAS is a young scientist academy founded by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) council in 2014. A total of 19 scientists across India have been selec...

Dr. Siddhesh S. Kamat from the Department of Biology has been conferred upon with the prestigious Tarun Tejankit Award for the year 2025.  Instituted by Loksatta, the Marathi daily of the Indian Express Group, the Tarun Tejankit Award is conferred annually to individuals who have made outstand...

Prof. Angshuman Nag, faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at IISER Pune, has been awarded the Distinguished Lectureship Award at the CSJ Asian International Symposium, organised during the 105th Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan at Kansai University, Osaka, Japan (March 2...

Dr. Pushkar Sohini named ICCR Chair at the University of ViennaMay 22, 2025 Dr. Pushkar Sohoni has been named as the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) Chair of Indian Studies at the University of Vienna starting May 21, 2025.  Best Paper Award to PhD student Tejashree LakrasMarch ...

Dr. Sreejith G.J. from the Department of Physics received the APJ Abdul Kalam Young Researcher Award from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The award recognises Dr. Sreejith's contributions to condensed matter physics and statistical mechanics using high-performance computing.  Named after former Pr...

Dr. Jeetender Chugh, a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, has been selected to receive the prestigious Prof. S. Subramanian 60th Birthday Lecture Award 2024 by the National Magnetic Resonance Society, India. The award is presented to individuals who have demonstrated excellence in magne...

Anil Zankar, a Guest Faculty member in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department of IISER Pune, has been conferred with the Sudhir Nandgaonkar Memorial Award 2025 at the Third Eye Asian Film Festival held in Mumbai, in recognition of Shri Zankar's work in writing on cinema.  The award was ...

Members from Prof. Chaitanya Athale’s research group from IISER Pune’s Department of Biology put up a stall at the Indian Science Fest 2025 held from 11-12 Jan 2025 at Fergusson College in Pune. Here, PhD student Tanvi Kale and group leader Chaitanya A. Athale share their excitement abou...

Prof. Amit Hogadi from the Department of Mathematics and Prof. Angshuman Nag from the Department of Chemistry have been elected as Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bengaluru. The Academy has announced a total of 40 fellows have been newly elected as Fellows in 2024 from across the ...

Dr. Krishanpal Karmodiya, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at IISER Pune, is among those selected for the prestigious EMBO Global Investigator Network.  The EMBO Global Investigator Network supports young group leaders in Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan, and, in a pilot project...

Prof. Satishchandra B. Ogale, Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Physics at IISER Pune and Director of TCG-CREST, Kolkata, has been selected to receive the  2026 TWAS Award in Physics, Astronomy, and Space Sciences by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). These prestigious awards are given ev...

Dr. Arvind Natu has been appointed as a member of the IISER Standing Committee, which was set up originally in 2016 in order to have a focused approach on the issues specific to IISERs and to make suitable recommendations to the NITSER Council. The reconstituted committee was announced on September ...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at IISER Pune, has been awarded the 2024 Infosys Prize in the Life Sciences category. The announcement was made today by the Infosys Science Foundation at an event in Bengaluru. The award citation to Dr. Kamat reads as follows: The I...

A new industry-academia collaboration initiative, the Centre for Intelligent Solutions, was inaugurated  during the 2024 Industry Conclave event that took place on September 14, 2024. Since the event brought together professionals from the industry and IISER Pune faculty, postdocs, and students...

Dr. Kalika Prasad from the Department of Biology has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). Founded in 1930, NASI is the oldest science academy in India and supports scientific excellence across all disciplines. Election as a Fellow of NASI is a prestigious hono...

Dr. Venketeswara R. Pai from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences has been honoured with the Satish Bhatnagar Award for the year 2024 by the Indian Mathematical Society (IMS). The Satish Bhatnagar Award has been instituted by the Indian Mathematical Society to recognise the best researc...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at IISER Pune, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K.  A professional body for chemical scientists and one of the oldest chemical societies in the world, the Royal Society of Chemistry supports and ...