• Department of Biological Sciences  offers research in the areas of Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Immunology, Cancer Biology, Epigenetics, Chemical Biology, Virology, Behavioral Biology, Plant Cell and Developmental Biology, Metagenomics, Genomics, Computational Biology, Ecology, Evolution and Molecular Systematics, Neurobiology and Stem Cell Biology, Viral Immunology, Evolutionary Biology, Bioacoustics, Behavioral Ecology and Ornithology.

Contact Information

• Department of Biological Sciences

  Dr. Sourav Datta
  Head, Department of Biological Sciences
  Email: admission.biophd@iiserb.ac.in

  Dr. Chandan Sahi
  Convener, PhD Admissions Committee
  Convener, Departmental Post-Graduate Committee
  Email: admission.biophd@iiserb.ac.in

  Queries will be entertained on the above mentioned e-mail only. No phone calls will be entertained.

• Department of Department of Chemical Engineering (CHE) offers research in the areas of Reaction engineering, Computational fluid dynamics, Microfluidics, Rheology of complex fluids, Soft matter & Self-propulsion, Environmental engineering, Electrochemistry, Bio-inspired polymeric nanocomposites, Advanced functional nanomaterials.

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• Department of Chemical Engineering

  Dr. Sankar Chakma
  DPGC, Convener Department of Chemical Engineering
  E-mail: admission.chephd@iiserb.ac.in

  Queries will be entertained on the above mentioned e-mail only.

Department of Chemistry offers research in the areas of:

• Supramolecular Chemistry; Crystallography; Transition Metal Chemistry; Molecular Materials; Organometallic Chemistry; Bio-inorganic Chemistry.

• Synthetic Organic Chemistry; Natural Products; Organometallic Chemistry; Asymmetric Catalysis; Chemical Biology; Molecular Biology; Polymers; Biomaterials.

• Electrochemistry: supercapacitors and electrocatalysis; Bionanotechnology; Biophysics; Polymers; Functional Nanomaterials; Ultrafast Spectroscopy; Computational Materials Science and Computational Physical and Biophysical Chemistry.

Contact Information

• Department of Chemistry

  Dr. Sangit Kumar
  Head, Department of Chemistry
  Email: admission.chmphd[AT]iiserb.ac.in

  Dr. Sanjit Konar
  Convener, Departmental Post-Graduate Committee
  Email: admission.chmphd[AT]iiserb.ac.in

  Queries will be entertained on the above mentioned e-mail only.

• Department of Data Science and Engineering (DSE) offers research in the following areas:

• Geospatial Artificial Intelligence
• Geoinformatics
• Development of Intelligent Systems
• Multisensor Big-Data Analytics
• Biomedical Informatics
• Image and Video Processing
• Computational Modelling of Data Driven Real World Problems
• Computer Vision
• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Signal Processing

For further details on the research areas and the respective faculty members, kindly refer to the following webpage: https://dse.iiserb.ac.in/people.php

Candidates are strongly encouraged to make a preliminary contact with the faculty members with whom they wish to work.

Contact Information

• Department of Data Science and Engineering

  DPGC, Department of Data Science and Engineering
  E-mail: : dse_dpgc@iiserb.ac.in
  Office, Data Science and Engineering E-mail: : office_dse@iiserb.ac.in
  

  Queries will be entertained on the above mentioned e-mail only.

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences offers research in the areas of:

Atmosphere and Climate Studies

• Aerosols: Experimental analyses of physical and chemical properties, receptor and hybrid models for source apportionment, data analysis of remotely sensed aerosol products, and assessment of climate and health effects.
• Climate Extremes, regional earth system modelling to address monsoon variability and change, Himalayan glacier modelling for mass-balance and area change study.
• Atmospheric greenhouse gas modelling, Carbon Cycle and Climate, Terrestrial ecosystem modelling, Satellite remote sensing of greenhouse gases, Agricultural emissions and remote sensing, Weather Forecast error analysis.

Earth Surface Processes

• Fluvial geomorphology, eco-geomorphology, the impact of climate change on rivers, microwave remote sensing, machine learning application in earth surface processes and hydrology.
• Impact of Climate Change in Hydrology, Floods and Droughts, Analysis of Weather Forecasts, River Engineering.
• Chemical oceanography & limnology, aqueous biogeochemistry, paleo-reconstruction of environmental & hydro-climatic conditions, and provenance tracing using elemental/isotope tracers.
• Geochemistry of groundwater contamination and mitigation measure; Geochemistry of mine waste rock; Geochemical processes at the water-sediment interface.

Solid Earth

• Active Tectonics, Geodynamics, Structural Geology, Petroleum Geology.
• Archaean Tectonics, Petrology-Geochronology, Precambrian crustal evolution of Indian Peninsula;
• Petrology and Geochemistry of Magmatic Ores, Magmatic processes and tectonic styles in Precambrian Earth with special focus on greenstone belts.
• Isotope geochemistry and geochronology in studies of crust-mantle evolution and petrogenesis.

For details, the prospective applicants are required to visit weblink: http://ees.iiserb.ac.in/research.php.

Contact Information

• Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

  Dr. Kumar Gaurav
  Head-in-charge, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  E-mail: admission.eesphd[AT]iiserb.ac.in

  Dr. Dhanyalekshmi Pillai
  Convener, Departmental Post-Graduate Committee
  E-mail: admission.eesphd[AT]iiserb.ac.in

  Queries will be entertained on the above mentioned e-mail only.

Department of Economic Sciences offers research in the areas of
Agriculture Economics, Environment and Resource Economics, Behavioral Economics, Macroeconomics (Economic Growth), Economic Theory, Game Theory, Corporate Finance and Industrial Organization, Public Finance, International Economics, Trade, Public Economics.
Performance Evaluation using Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Data Envelopment Analysis, Applied Econometrics, Energy Economics, Issues Related to Indian Industry and Survey Methodology.
Applied Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy, Economics of Crime and Conflict, Law and Economics, Institutional Economics.

Contact Information

• Department of Economic Sciences

  E-mail: hod_eco@iiserb.ac.in

  Queries will be entertained on the above-mentioned e-mail only. No phone calls will be entertained.

Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science offers research in the following broad areas:

• Theoretical Computer Science
• Applied Computer Science
• Robotics & Control Systems
• Communication, Signal Processing and Network Science
• Devices, Circuits Sensors and Systems

For further details on the research areas and the respective faculty members, kindly refer to the following webpage: https://eecs.iiserb.ac.in/program.php

Candidates are strongly encouraged to make a preliminary contact with the faculty members with whom they wish to work.

Contact Information

• Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  Dr. Aditya Sankar Medury
  Head, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  E-mail: admission.eecsphd@iiserb.ac.in

  Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Office
  E-mail: office_eecs@iiserb.ac.in

  Queries will be entertained on the above mentioned e-mail only.

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
For Ph.D. admission August 2022 session, the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences is offering admission in the following areas:

• Literature: Women in the Digital Age, Feminist Historiography.
• Philosophy: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science.
• Linguistics: Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Language Cognition
• Sociology and Social Anthropology: Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Caste, Literary Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Ethics (and other relevant field).
• Science and Technology Studies (STS): Social History of Science, Feminist Science Studies, History and Anthropology of Machines and Instruments, Science Education (and other relevant fields).

Contact Information

• Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

  E-mail: admission.hssphd@iiserb.ac.in

  Queries will be entertained on the above-mentioned e-mail only. No phone calls will be entertained.

• Department of Mathematics offers research in the areas of Algebraic Coding Theory, Algebraic Geometry, Algebraic K-Theory, Commutative Algebra, Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory, Group Theory, Harmonic Analysis, Low-dimensional / Geometric Topology, Number Theory, Numerical Analysis, Operator Algebras, Partial Differential Equations, Representation Theory, Riemannian Geometry.

Contact Information

• Department of Mathematics

  Dr. Kashyap Rajeevsarathy
  Head, Department of Mathematics
  E-mail: admission.mthphd@iiserb.ac.in

  Dr. Sanjay Kumar Singh
  Convener, Departmental Post-Graduate Committee
  E-mail: admission.mthphd@iiserb.ac.in

  Queries will be entertained on the above mentioned e-mail only.

Department of Physics offers research in the areas of:

• Ultra-fast Optics
• Experimental and Theoretical Soft Condensed Matter Physics
• Experimental and Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
• Quantum Sensing and Metrology
• Theoretical High Energy Physics - Astronomy, Cosmology, Nuclear Astrophysics, Particle physics, QCD, String theory

Contact Information

• Physics Office
  Contact No.: +91 755 269 2582
  E-mail: admission.phyphd@iiserb.ac.in

  Queries will be entertained on the above mentioned e-mail only.