The faculty body of IISER Pune gathered on April 21, 2026, to felicitate Prof. Thomas Pucadyil on his new appointment as the Director of BRIC-National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune. "This is a remarkable achievement highlighting his outstanding contributions to the field. IISER Pune is immens...

Dr. Anup Biswas from the Department of Mathematics and Prof. S.G. Srivatsan 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 38 members elected as Fellows in 2025 from across the country. The affi...

Prof. Sujit K. Ghosh from the Department of Chemistry has been selected to receive the MRSI Materials Science Annual Prize for the year 2025. This prize is awarded by the Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) and will  be presented to him during the Annual General Meeting of MRSI, to be h...

Two faculty members from IISER Pune Dr. Gayathri Pananghat (Biology Department) and Prof. S.G. Srivatsan (Chemistry Department) have been elected as Fellows of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) based in Prayagraj. Founded in 1930, NASI is the oldest science academy in India and support...

Two faculty members from IISER Pune Prof. Sujit K. Ghosh (Professor, Chemistry Department) and Prof. Kalika Prasad (Professor, Biology Department) have been elected as Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi for the year 2025. A total of 78 fellows have been newly elected a...

Prof. Aloke Das from the Chemistry department at IISER Pune is among the Bronze Medal winners awarded by the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) for the year 2026. The CRSI is a premier professional chemical society of India established in 1999 with an aim to facilitate and promote research a...

The prestigious Chemical Research Society of India awarded three IISER Pune faculty members.  Faculty members in the Chemistry department Prof. Pinaki Talukdar was awarded the C.N.R. Rao National Prize,  and Prof. Nirmalya Ballav was awarded the CRSI Bronze Medal. Prof. K.N. Ganesh (Forme...

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. Sujit K. Ghosh from the Department of Chemistry has been selected for the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. This prestigious international recognition is awarded annually to distinguished scientists and scholars and recognises outstanding re...

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. 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...

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 ...

Prof. R. Boomi Shankar, faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, has been honoured with the prestigious CRS Silver Star Award by the Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha (CRS) of India at the "Rasayan 20" Symposium held at the Vidyasagar University, Midnapore. From the award ceremony at the "Rasayan 2...

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...

Prof. Angshuman Nag, faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at IISER Pune, has been awarded the National Prize for Research in Chemical Physics for the year 2024 by the C.N.R. Rao Education Foundation. The award ceremony was held at JNCASR, Bengaluru on September 25, 2024.  C.N.R. ...

Prof. Anjan Banerjee from the Department of Biology and Prof. Pinaki Talukdar from the Department of Chemistry have been elected as Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi. A total of 63 fellows have been newly elected as Fellows this year from across various science instit...

Prof. Sujit K. Ghosh from the Department of Chemistry is among those selected for the Society for Materials Chemistry (SMC) Silver Medal-2024 Award for the year 2024. The SMC Awards 2024 will be conferred at the 10th  DAE – BRNS Interdisciplinary Symposium on Materials Chemistry (ISMC2024...

Prof. Srinivas Hotha, faculty member in the department of Chemistry at IISER Pune, is among the recipients of the 2024 National Awards to Teachers in Higher Educational Institutions by the Ministry of Education, Government of India.  The awards were presented by the President of India Droupadi...

Three members from IISER Pune have been selected for prestigious awards by the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) for the year 2025. The Founding Director of IISER Pune Prof. K. N. Ganesh (presently at JNCASR, Bengaluru), has been selected for the CRSI Gold Medal. This prestigious honour ref...

Ignite Life Science Foundation, with support from IndianOil Corporation and Teekays Foundation, funded the acquisition of a multi-mode plate reader to enable high throughput research at IISER Pune.   Multi-mode plate readers are used in various fields such as biochemistry, molecular biolo...