(CAFM)
PhD Advertisement for Autumn Semester 2025
The Centre for Advanced Functional Materials (CAFM) of IISER Kolkata invites applications in the regular Ph.D. programme for the Autumn semester, 2025, in the interdisciplinary research areas of:
Minimum Eligibility Criteria in general: Bright and motivated candidates who have obtained M.Sc. and/or M.Tech. Degree with a minimum of 55% marks in Chemistry, Physics, or Biology. Unless specified, the candidates must have CSIR/UGC-NET
JRF, INSPIRE fellowship or other equivalent fellowship.
| Interdisciplinary Research Areas | Faculty Member | Link for Applying |
| Department of Chemical Sciences | ||
| Solid-state nanomaterials for energy conversion, electrocatalysis, and halide perovskite optoelectronics | Prof. Sayan Bhattacharyya, DCS | Select "PhD in CAFM (DCS) (Autumn 2025)" in the "Applying for" drop-down menu at the time of filling online application form
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| Polymer Chemistry, Polyelectrolytes, Bio-inspired Polymers, Cationic Polymerization | Prof. Priyadarshi De, DCS | Select "PhD in CAFM (DCS) (Atumn 2025)" in the "Applying for" drop-down menu at the time of filling online application form
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| Therapeutic Polymer Synthesis, Polymeric Sensors, and Porous Polymers | Prof. Raja Shunmugam, DCS | Select "PhD in CAFM (DCS) (Autumn 2025)" in the "Applying for" drop-down menu at the time of filling online application form
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| One PhD student to work in collaboration with the Polymer group and the Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry group to design compounds and delivery vehicles for anticancer agents. Supervisors-- Prof. Raja Shunmugam and Prof. Arindam Mukherjee One PhD student for working in collaboration with Organic Photocatalysis group and medicinal inorganic chemistry group to design compounds as kinase targeting agents. Supervisors -- Prof. Suman De Sarkar and Prof. Arindam Mukherjee |
Prof. Arindam Mukherjee, DCS | Select "PhD in CAFM (DCS) (Autumn 2025)" in the "Applying for" drop-down menu at the time of filling online application form
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| Applied organic chemistry with applications in Supramolecular materials and nanotechnology | Prof. Dibyendu Das, DCS | Select "PhD in CAFM (DCS) (Autumn 2025)" in the "Applying for" drop-down menu at the time of filling online application form
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| Theoretical and Computational Materials Science (Requirement: M.Sc. in Physics / Chemistry / Materials Science) | Prof. Mousumi Das, DCS | Select "PhD in CAFM (DCS) (Autumn 2025)" in the "Applying for" drop-down menu at the time of filling online application form
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| Synthesis of Biologically Important Molecules for Therapeutic Applications,Development of Functional Materials for Efficient Electro-Organic Synthesis, Preparation of Heterogeneous Materials for Visible Light-Mediated Photocatalysis | Prof. Suman De Sarkar, DCS | Select "PhD in CAFM (DCS) (Autumn 2025)" in the "Applying for" drop-down menu at the time of filling online application form Click Here |
| a) Organic semiconductors and charge transport in semiconductor devices. b)Organic delayed fluorescent emitters for efficient OLEDs[Prof. | Prof. Ratheeesh K. Vijayaraghavan , DCS | Select "PhD in CAFM (DCS) (Autumn 2025)" in the "Applying for" drop-down menu at the time of filling online application form Click Here |
| Dioxygen Activation, Water Oxidation and Chemical Transformation Combining Metal–Ligand Cooperativity with Transition Metal Complexes of Non-Innocent Ligands | Prof. Sumit Khanra, DCS | Select "PhD in CAFM (DCS) (Autumn 2025)" in the "Applying for" drop-down menu at the time of filling online application form
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*Candidates with INSPIRE fellowship should have a provisional certificate at the time of application.
**Please note that fulfilling the minimum essential criteria does not guarantee that a candidate will be called for an interview. ** The Centre might set additional shortlisting criteria based on academic records, experience, and research interest of the candidates
*** Reservations for SC/ST/OBC candidates are applicable as per the Government of India rules
**** Applicants must select a topic from the list above in their Statement of Purpose (SOP) and indicate the potential supervisor of interest. Beside the link provided for each potential supervisor, the faculty profiles of CAFM can be found at the URL:Click Here