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...

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...

Variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus pose a major challenge as some of these may have altered virulence, transmissibility, the potential to cause re-infections, and even breakthrough infections in the fully vaccinated. It is essential in this scenario to identify virus variants rapidly, at scale, along ...

IISER Pune expresses sincere condolences on the demise of Shri Rahul Bajaj, noted industrialist and head of the Bajaj group. Shri Bajaj was among the foremost supporters of IISER Pune and had generously funded the construction of a hall of residence for women research scholars on campus which can no...

Dr. Thomas Pucadyil runs the Reconstitution Biology lab in IISER Pune. His research is based on a novel approach to address questions in membrane biology that he pioneered during his postdoctoral work. His techniques have found great success, as evidenced by the many accolades he has received, the m...

[caption id="attachment_1567" align="alignleft" width="610"] G.V. Pavan Kumar (Photo Credit: Keerthi Raj, B.S.)[/caption] A landmark paper in Nano Letters, senior membership of the Optical Society (OSA), and DST’s Swarnajayanti Fellowship: the year 2018 turned out to be remarkable for Dr. G.V. Pa...

BS MS student Kartik Nirbhavne chats here with Prof. Satish Ogale whose collaborative work on novel solar devices has recently been awarded the International Newton Prize. The Newton Prize recognizes innovators from around the world who contribute to reducing poverty and aim for developments that wi...

From being a bachelor student in physics to a researcher in climate science, Dr. Neena Joseph Mani’s career story takes us through the vagaries of the weather and the means to understanding the same. At IISER Pune’s Earth and Climate Science discipline that investigates systems with timescales as va...

Dr. Murari Mohan Jana is a rose specialist and is IISER Pune's very own horticulturist, a doctor and nurturer to the ever increasing vegetation covering the sprawling 98 acre campus. BS MS student Lokahith Agasthya sat down with him for tete-a-tete to learn about Dr. Jana’s career and work, horticul...

In this series, IISER Pune students bring us glimpses of various facets of the institute such as teaching, research, administration, and campus planning through their interviews with people behind the scenes. INTERVIEW BY Meenakshi Pardasani and Soumya Bhattacharyya “I am a botanist at heart. ...

On the 19th of May, 109 BS MS students and one Integrated PhD & 41 PhD students were awarded their degrees during the sixth convocation ceremony of IISER Pune.  Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, National Research Professor & Padma Vibhushan awardee and current President of the Global Research Alliance was the Ch...

Dr Thomas Pucadyil, Associate Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been chosen as an International Research Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). He is one of the 41 scientists from sixteen countries chosen this year from over 1400 applications. The selection for this award that ...

IISER Pune is pleased to announce a generous endowment from Bajaj Auto Ltd. towards construction of a hostel for women research scholars at the institute. This facility would help IISER Pune take forward its commitment toward encouraging education of women and inducting them to research in a support...

Dr Nixon Abraham, faculty member at IISER Pune, has received the 2017 Pfizer Research Prize in a ceremony held on January 26, 2017 in Switzerland. He shares this Prize with Dr Olivier Gschwend (University of Geneva) and Prof Alan Carleton (University of Geneva) for their work in the area of neurosci...

The IISER Pune contigent has won the maximum number of medals at the 5th Inter IISER Sports Meet (IISM)-2016 held at IISER Kolkata during December 8-13, 2016 and were declared the overall champions. Breaking the trend of the host IISER winning the championship, the IISER Pune team won prizes and ...

The group of five IISERs has been ranked fourth in India in a list of top scientific institutions published by the prestigious Nature Index1. They have also made it to the top fifty institutes in the Asia Pacific region2. The nine-year-old IISERs are next only to the veterans of Indian science such ...

Dr John Mathew, Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at IISER Pune, was recently featured in an article in the English-language daily The Hindu. Dr Mathew has two doctorates to his credit, one in Ecology and another in the History of Science. His research interests include the Histo...