Prof. Sanjeev Galande has won the prestigious G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research for the year 2014. Instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation, the award is given in recognition of scientific research of high calibre to Indian scientists below the age of 50 years living and working in ...

Dr. G. V. Pavan Kumar, Assistant Professor at IISER Pune, has won the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist award in Physics for 2015. The award was initiated by Scopus™ in 2006 to recognize knowledge and expertise of young Indian researchers. Since 2009, they have partnered with the National Academy of Scie...

Prof. K. N. Ganesh, Director, IISER Pune has been chosen for the H. K. Firodia Vijnan Bhushan Award for Excellence in Science & Technology for the year 2015. The award is given in the memory of late Mr. H. K. Firodia to eminent Indian scientists for their original and outstanding contributions to a...

Bacteria are known to thrive in an incredibly wide variety of habitats and conditions ranging from the human gut to hot springs. Scientists are trying to understand how bacteria manage to learn to survive in various conditions and thus to learn about the process of evolution itself. For this, resear...

As a new means to harness light energy, Dr. Musthafa’s research group at IISER Pune has developed a battery that can produce power from a light source. This development could potentially allow solar energy to be stored directly in a battery along with paving way to generate a sustainable photo batte...

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 ...

In-house summer school hosted by IISER Pune; June 09, 2015. The Times of India reported on the Summer School programme “Joy of Learning”, conducted by IISER Pune for students of Class IX-XII. ...

Genesis: [caption id="attachment_447" align="alignright" width="300"] The enthusiastic group of students at the Summer School[/caption] In response to the demand from enthusiastic students and eager parents, IISER Pune hosted its first in-house Summer School for students of grades IX to XII fr...

87 students from the 2010 batch graduate from IISER Pune; May 29, 2015. IISER Pune's fourth Covocation Ceremony was covered by The Times of India. ...

Eighty seven BS-MS students from the 2010 batch graduated from IISER Pune today at the fourth Convocation ceremony. The function, held at the CV Raman Hall in the Lecture Hall Complex, also saw sixteen Ph.D. students pass out of the institute. Prof M. M. Sharma (Emeritus Professor, ICT Mumbai) was t...

IISER Pune scientists win Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA) award; May 17, 2015. The Times of India covered the news of the IYBA Award won by Dr. Akanksha Chaturvedi and Dr. Krishanpal Karmodiya. ...

The Science Club of IISER Pune has brought out a newsletter, Helicase, to chronicle its various activities. Science Club is a students’ initiative that promotes science outside the classroom by organizing events that spread the excitement of doing science. The very first issue of their newsletter...

IISER Pune hosted the second "Foundations of Biology" meeting between 11-13 April-2015. The general idea for this series of meetings is to get together about twenty scientists from different disciplines and spend three days discussing and arguing about fundamental issues in biology, as opposed to ju...

Two scientists from IISER Pune, Dr Akanksha Chaturvedi (Assistant Professor in Biology) and Dr Krishanpal Karmodiya (DST INSPIRE Fellow), have won the Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA) for the year 2014. The award is given by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India to ...

IISER Pune celebrated its fifth foundation day on April 6, 2015 with the Foundation Day Lecture being delivered by Prof Devang Khakhar (Director, IIT Mumbai). [caption id="attachment_402" align="alignleft" width="307"] Prof KN Ganesh welcomes Prof Devang Khakhar, Director, IIT Bombay[/caption] ...

IISER Pune recently hosted an event on Texts, Tunes, Technologies: Perspectives on Indian Musics. The two-day event that included a talk, a half-day symposium, and a workshop, received a good response from the IISER Pune community as well as music aficionados from the city. The proceedings opened w...

On 3-14-15 at precisely 9.26 a.m., a point in time that approximates pi all the way to 7 decimal places, Pi Day celebrations began at IISER Pune. [caption id="attachment_305" align="alignleft" width="169"] Pi day 2015 logo[/caption] Pi Day is the annual event organized by math department to ...

India, Nature Index; March, 2015. The scientific journal Nature Index published a ranking of scientific institutes in India. The group of five IISERs ranked fourth in the country. ...

Department of Mathematics, IISER Pune had organized a half-day in-house symposium on Math-Finance. The main purpose of the meeting was to give participants an overall knowledge of the research in the area of Math-Finance that is being carried out in the department. The seminar was open to all and r...

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...