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  • New in Campus

    PMRF Fellowship to ten IISER Pune research scholars

    Posted on Nov 13, 2023
    Ten research scholars from IISER Pune have been selected for the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship. 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 Education & Research (IIS...
  • Research News

    From hazardous iodine waste to Lithium-ion battery

    Posted on Oct 04, 2023
    In a recent paper published in the journal ACS Materials Letters, research groups of Prof. Sujit K. Ghosh and Prof. Satishchandra Ogale have synthesised a covalent-organic framework to sequester hazardous iodine waste and have employed it as a cathode material for Lithium-ion battery. Here, BS-MS st...
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    Prof. Sunil Bhagwat elected as INAE Fellow

    Posted on Sep 12, 2023
    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...
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    Distinguished Lectureship Award to Prof. Sujit K. Ghosh

    Posted on Aug 18, 2023
    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...
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    JSPS Invitational Fellowship to Prof. Partha Hazra

    Posted on Aug 18, 2023
    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...
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    CRSI Bronze Medal to Dr. Moumita Majumdar

    Posted on Jul 10, 2023
    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...
  • Research News

    Computational study of ion conduction in lithium-ion batteries

    Posted on May 18, 2023
    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...
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    SERB-POWER Fellowship to Dr. Srabanti Chaudhury

    Posted on Mar 26, 2023
    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...
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    Padma Awards to Prof. Deepak Dhar and Prof. K.N. Ganesh

    Posted on Jan 26, 2023
    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...
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    A new hybrid aerogel to capture arsenic from water

    Posted on Dec 05, 2022
    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...
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    Humboldt Research Fellowship to Dr. Moumita Majumdar

    Posted on Nov 22, 2022
    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 the Media

    Prof. Sujit Ghosh's group's work on uranium extraction

    Posted on Sep 28, 2022
    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...