Ph. D. Advertisement Vasanth 2023

Applications are invited from highly motivated students with a CSIR, UGC Fellowship for admission to the Ph. D. programs of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM) in the Schools of Chemistry, Physics, and in the centres of Advanced Materials Research with International Engagement (CAMRIE) and High-Performance Computing (CHPC) for the session starting from January 2023, i.e., Vasanth 2023 semester. Candidates are required to apply through the online portal only. The online application portal will reopen from (25 November 2022) at (http://appserv.iisertvm.ac.in/phd/) and will remain open till 02 December 2022, 12 o' clock.

General Eligibility Criteria

(For school/centre specific eligibility criteria see the table below)

1. 6.5 CGPA on a 10-point scale (or first-class equivalent) or first class in Master’s program in a relevant discipline as declared by the respective University.
   (BE/BTech degree in relevant specialization is admissible for select areas of research in the School of Physics (see Research Areas))
2. The candidate must have qualified at least one of the following examinations: CSIR-JRF, UGC-JRF, with validity as on 01 January 2023.

Schoolwise Research Areas

Chemical Sciences

• Asymmetric Organic Synthesis
• Bioinorganic and Coordination Chemistry
• Biomaterials, Antifouling Coatings, Nano-Immune Interactions
• Bio-Molecular Electronics
• Catalysis for Sustainable Organic Synthesis
• Electrocatalysts for Electrochemical Conversion Systems
• Host-Guest Chemistry, Molecular Switches and Machines
• Inorganic Materials: Cluster, Cluster-assembly
• Macrocycles, Pi-Conjugated Cyclic Systems
• Main Group Chemistry
• Materials Chemistry for Sustainable Energy
• New Catalytic Strategies in Organic Synthesis
• NMR spectroscopy: Biophysics, Protein chemistry
• Organic Synthesis: Cross-Coupling Reactions
• Organometallic Chemistry, Small Molecule Activation
• Photochemistry and Photophysics, Chirality
• Supramolecular Chemistry
• Supramolecular Chemistry, DNA Nanotechnology, Cancer Therapy
• Synthetic Methods for Organic Synthesis, C–H Functionalization
• Theoretical and Computational Chemical and Biological Physics
• Theoretical Chemistry
• Ultrafast Spectroscopy

Physical Sciences

• Experimental Physics
  • (*)Development of Light Sheet Microscopy (LSM) or Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) imaging system; Development of photacoustic imaging (PAI) system, both microscopy and tomography
  • Solid state Batteries
  • Terahertz Spectroscopy of Condensed Matter Systems
  • Lead-free halide perovskite nanomaterials
  • Physics of semiconductor devices (solar cells, light emitting diodes, transistors, memory, bioelectronic) based on quantum/Organic/perovskite/2D materials
  • (*)Semiconductor qubits, Quantum electrical sensing, Quantum-transport
  • (*)Quantum Materials, Spintonics, Oxide memristors for Non-volatile memory (NVM)
  • Advanced semiconductor devices for power / energy conversion
  • Nonlinear optics, frequency combs, microwave photonics
• Theoretical Physics
  • Nonlinear Dynamics: Emerging, Phenomena in Complex Networks, Delay effects
  • Condensed Matter Theory: Machine Learning many body wavefunctions, Unconventional Superconductivity, Topological phases of matter
  • Solar Physics, Lower Solar Atmosphere, Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Simulations, MHD Waves
  • Quantum information theory, Foundations of Quantum Theory
  • Brewer Dobson Circulation, Sudden Stratospheric Warming

Centrewise Research Areas and Eligibility

CAMRIE

CHPC

School/Centre wise Selection Procedure

Chemical Sciences

Marks-based shortlisting and Interview in Hybrid Mode.

Physical Sciences

During the application process, the candidates will be asked to enter one of the choices among 1) Theoretical or 2) Experimental. The shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend interviews conducted in hybrid mode.

CAMRIE

During the application process, a candidate will be asked to select one or more choices of the research area for the centre based on her/his qualification. The shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend interviews which will be conducted in hybrid mode at IISER TVM.

CHPC

During the application process, a candidate will be asked to select one or more choices of the research area for the centre based on her/his qualification. The shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend interviews which will be conducted in Hybrid mode at IISER TVM.

Important Dates

General Information and Application Procedure

1. Applicants should complete the online application form at the url: http://appserv.iisertvm.ac.in/phd
2. Only applications complete in all respects would be considered. Do not forget to click the "Submit" button after completing your application.
3. Applicants will also be prompted to upload all the supporting documents online.
4. Applicants should provide Name/Affiliation/Contact number and Email addresses of two referees in the application form.
5. Applicants belonging to GE/OBC and SC/ST/PH categories are required to make a payment of Rs. 500/- and Rs. 250/-, respectively, as a processing fee online at: ( https://www.onlinesbi.sbi/sbicollect/icollecthome.htm )
6. On submission of the online application form, the applicants will receive an acknowledgement email with a unique application number.
7. Applicants are NOT required to post a hard copy of the application to IISER TVM.
8. In case of any application-related queries, please contact the Ph. D. coordinator by email at: phdprogramme@iisertvm.ac.in . Any other mode of communication will not be entertained.
9. Mere fulfilment of the eligibility criteria does not entitle a candidate to be called for the interview.
10. Reservation in admission for the reserved categories will be as per Government of India rules.