IISER Bhopal PhD Admissions 2023 are open now. The Last date to apply is April 5, 2023. Selection to PhD is done on the basis of candidates performance in the interview. Application to the PhD program offered by IISER, Bhopal can be made on the official website. All the applicants have to undergo two rounds of interviews after scrutiny of the applications. Selected candidates are eligible for the JRF Fellowship.

Particulars Dates
Commencement of Ph.D Admissions Ongoing
Last Date to Apply for Ph.D Admissions April 5, 2023

IISER Bhopal PH.D. Eligibility

 IISER Bhopal Offers Ph.D program in the following electives:

Specializations Areas Of Research
Biological Sciences Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Immunology, Cancer Biology, Epigenetics, Chemical Biology, Virology, Behavioral Biology, Plant Cell and Developmental Biology, Metagenomics, Systems Biology, Ecology, Evolution and Molecular Systematics.
Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics, Reaction Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Functional Nanomaterials, Bioinspired Polymeric Nanocomposites, and Soft Matter and Self-propulsion.
Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry

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

Organic Chemistry

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

Physical Chemistry

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

Atmosphere and Climate Studies

Aerosols: Characterization of physical and chemical properties, source apportionment by receptor modeling, and assessment of climate and health effects.

Climate Extremes, regional earth system modeling to address monsoon variability and change, Himalayan glacier modeling for mass-balance and area change study.

Greenhouse gas modeling, Carbon Cycle and Climate, Satellite-based GHG budgets, GHG measurement network design

Earth Surface Processes

Fluvial geomorphology, remote sensing & GIS.

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, 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.
Mathematics 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.
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Applied Automata & Model Checking

Communication and Signal Processing

Cryptography

Design & Analysis of Algorithms

Devices, Circuits and Sensors

Electromagnetics and Plasmas

Natural Language Processing

Robotics & Control Systems

Social Network
Humanities & Social Science Subaltern studies; Folklore Studies; Cultural studies; Translation studies; Indian aesthetics
Physics

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

Experimental Quantum Sensing

Neutrino, dark matter and LHC physics

Soft condensed matter physics

Eligibility: 

  • M.Sc./M.Tech. or equivalent degree in the relevant discipline with a minimum of 60% marks

  • GATE / CSIR-UGC-JRF / DBT-JRF (category I only) / ICMR-JRF (category A only) / CSIR-UGC-LS / Provisional letter of INSPIRE-JRF for PhD / Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship or any other recognized score is mandatory. 

  • A relaxation of 5% of marks will be allowed for candidates belonging to SC/ST/PD categories.

Age Criteria: 

  • For Ph.D. Admissions, the candidate’s age shouldn’t exceed a maximum of 28 years. 
  • A relaxation of 3 years will be offered to OBC candidates.
  • Moreover, a 5 year relaxation is applicable for candidate belonging to SC/ ST Category.

Note: Upper age limit shall be determined as on last date of online submission of applications. Date of Birth as recorded in the Matriculation/ Secondary Examination Certificate/Aadhar Card only will be accepted by the IISER Bhopal for determining the age.

IISER Bhopal Ph.D. Programme Selection Process

  • Application and recommendation are scrutinised.
  • The selection procedure is based on the performance of the applicant in the Interview Rounds.
  • There are two sets of interviews to be cleared. Shortlisted candidates for the interview are intimidated by email.
  • Travelling allowance is paid to SC/ST candidates as per Government of India norms.
  • Shortlisted candidates of Round 1 have an opportunity to interact with the respective faculty members of the department.
  • The final selection is done after Round 2.

All the communication related to shortlisting and declaration of results is done through email only.

IISER Bhopal Contact Details

IISER Bhopal can be contacted by:

Address: The Dean, Academic Affairs, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal- 462066, Madhya Pradesh

Website: https://www.iiserb.ac.in

Concerned email ids for respective disciplines:

Biology

admission.biophd@iiserb.ac.in

Chemistry

admission.chmphd[AT]iiserb.ac.in

Earth and Environmental Science

admission.eesphd[AT]iiserb.ac.in

Mathematics

admission.mthphd@iiserb.ac.in

Physics

admission.phyphd@iiserb.ac.in

Chemical Engineering

admission.chephd@iiserb.ac.in

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Admission.eecsphd@iiserb.ac.in

IISER Bhopal Ph.D. Programme Application Process

Candidates seeking admission to Ph.D program offered by IISER, Bhopal must fulfill the prescribed eligibility criteria. After confirming the eligibility, the applicant can reach the university website. Follow the procedure given below to correctly fill the application form.

  • Visit https://www.iiserb.ac.in/doaa/phd-admission.
  • Select any of the given links for application to Biological Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences and Chemistry respectively.
  • On the following application page, fill all the required credentials.
  • Disclose information related to the selection of the discipline, personal details, category information, academic record, work experience, number of publications, preferred area of research broadly and contact details.
  • Upload scanned copy of the Recommendation Letter. includes information regarding the applicant’s acquaintance with the person recommending, applicant’s strengths and weaknesses and comments, if any.
  • Please retain a print out of the PDF of the online application form submitted by you.