IISER Tirupati PDRF Program October 2020 – Application Details
IISER Tirupati has an active Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (PDRF) Program to enable highly motivated young researchers to conduct research in the frontier areas of Science and Technology.
Applications are invited twice a year, in April and October, for the appointment of post-doctoral fellows in the various research areas. These positions are open for candidates with 0-5 years of experience after obtaining a Ph.D. degree in related areas. Candidates who have submitted their thesis and awaiting award of degree may also apply. Candidates should provide evidence of having carried out high-quality research during or after their Ph. D. program. The award will be initially for one year, with an extension for one more year after reviewing of performance.
PDRFs have to get associated with a specific research group depending upon the research and facilities /mentorship required to carry-out research.
How to apply: Interested candidates should contact faculty working in the below-mentioned research areas at IISER Tirupati and identify a research project with the mentor to host the Fellowship.
For details of the faculty and their research areas please visit: www.iisertirupati.ac.in/people/faculty
Candidates will be shortlisted based on the quality of their research work
and proposal. The final selection will be made based on all the above criteria, specific area of research and performance in interview.Applications are invited for PDRFs in CHEMISTRY in the following areas of research:
1. 2D Materials and Electrochemistry (Prof. Vijayamohanan Pillai)
2. Nanomaterials for Biological Applications (Dr Jatish Kumar)
3. Spectroscopic Study of Proteins and Nucleic Acid (Dr Soumit Sankar Mandal)
4. Computational Chemistry (Quantum or Classical) (Dr Padmabati Mondal)
5. Soft Matter Theory and Simulation (Dr Rakesh S. Singh)
6. Computational and Quantum Chemistry (Dr Raghunath O Ramabhadran)
7. Total Synthesis of Natural Products (Dr Kiran Kumar)
8. Organometallic Chemistry and Sustainable Catalysis (Dr E. Balaraman)
9. Synthesis and Catalysis (Dr Gopinath Purushothaman)
10. Organic Homogeneous Catalysis and Main Group Chemistry (Dr Sudipta Roy)
11. Bioinorganic-Biomimetic-Systems and Catalysis (Dr Pankaj Kumar Koli)
12. Low Dimensional semiconductors for lighting applications (Dr. Janardan Kundu)
For Chemistry: Submit your application online https://form.jotform.com/202592119570454
Fellowship: Rs. 47,000/- p.m + HRA as per GoI rules if the candidate produces the Ph. D. Certificate. Otherwise, Rs. 35,000/- p.m + HRA as per GoI rules for those candidates whose Ph. D. degree is awaited. However, the candidate must produce a letter from competent authority stating that the thesis has been submitted and the final viva/defence is pending. The nominal research grant will be available under this program.
Following selection to the IISER PDRF program, applications for competitive postdoctoral
fellowships by the fellow may also be forwarded to DST-SERB or other agencies (DBT-RA, CSIRRA, ICMR etc.) through the Institute. Details of the SERB National Postdoctoral Fellowship (NPDF) are available at www.serb.gov.in/npdf.php.
N.B. Candidates who have already applied for a PDRF position to IISER Tirupati in response
to Advt No. 13/2020 (with deadline June 10th 2020) need not apply again. In case, one would like to update their publication list or other achievements, they may do so by e-mailing to the respective department’s pdrf email id given below:
Last Date for application for all streams: October 31st, 2020
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