NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY (NCL Pune) (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research)
PUNE 411 008
Advertisement No. Ph.D/1/2010
Application for NCL PhD Programme 2010 (JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW)
National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), a premier Research Laboratory under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (http://www.csir.res.in) is engaged in world class research in chemical and related sciences. NCL (http://www.ncl-india.org) is a major knowledge based laboratory devoted to research in the following area:-
Agricultural Biotechnology
Artificial Intelligence
Bioorganic Chemistry
Catalysis
Chaos Theory and Turbulence
Advanced functional Materials including
Nanomaterials
Complex Fluids and Polymer Engineering
Energy Technology
Fluid Modelling and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Green Chemistry
Mathematical & System Biology
Microbial and Mammalian Cell Culture
Molecular Host-pathogene Interactions
Molecular Marker Technology
Nonlinear Dynamics
Organic Chemistry
Plant Tissue Culture
Polymer Science
Process Design Modelling and Simulation
Reaction Engineering
Separation Science
Structure-function and Crystallography of Biomolecules
Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Science
The research groups are supported by several high quality resource centres e.g. High Performance Computing facilities, Centre for Materials Characterization, Central NMR facility, Catalyst Pilot Plant, Combi-chem-bio Resource Centre and Digital Information Resource Centre.
NCL has an active research program leading to Ph.D. degree in all the above mentioned areas. It provides a stimulating atmosphere, which fosters creativity and encourages innovative thinking and research. Various awards including travel grant to attend conferences abroad are provided to Ph.D. students. Additional incentives will be available for interdisciplinary research.
Applications are invited from candidates who are holding M.Sc. degree or equivalent in all branches of Science and have qualified in CSIR/UGC-NET under CSIR/UGC fellowship scheme or DBT/ICMR JRF examination scheme or BioInformatics National Certification (BINC) Examination, for admission to the Ph.D. programme. Selection for admission to the Ph.D. programme will be done on the basis of an interview to he held at NCL in broad disciplines of Organic Chemistry, Catalysis, Life Sciences, Physical & Theoretical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Polymer Science and Chemical Engineering. The number of students to be selected in each of the above disciplines will depend on the vacancies that will exist for each of the disciplines. A candidate may choose to be considered in any three of the above disciplines. The candidates will be interviewed separately in each of the disciplines of his/her choice. Separate merit list will be prepared in each of the above disciplines.
Tenure: The selected JRFs will be eligible for a stipend and House Rent Allowance (HRA) as admissible under rules and a Contingency grant. On completion of two years, JRFs could be upgraded to Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) on assessment. The total tenure including the fellowship period shall not exceed 5 years.
Eligibility for NCL PhD 2010: The candidate should have qualified the NET examination held in June 2009 & December, 2009 under CSIR/UGC category or should have valid award letter under the above or should have qualified under DBT/ICMR JRF examination scheme or BioInformatics National Certification (BINC) Examination.
Application procedure and interview schedule: Candidates who fulfill the above requirements may kindly send their applications in the prescribed proforma addressed to the Section Officer, Student Academic Office, Room No. 264, 1st Floor, Main Building, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411 008, along with copies of testimonials in support of educational qualifications and CSIR/UGC-NET award letter issued by CSIR/UGC or DBT/ICMR JRF or BINC qualification letter duly superscribed “Application for Ph.D. Programme”. The proforma may be downloaded from http://www.ncl-india.org/ncljobs/managejobs.jsp.
Last date for receipt of application of NCL PhD is Monday, May 31st, 2010.
The interviews will be held on 8th and 9th June 2010 at NCL in the Conference Room, 3rd Floor, Main Building. Please report at 9.00 a.m. on 8th June, 2010.
Please note that the candidates, who fulfil the above criteria of eligibility, may directly appear for the interview at NCL on Tuesday the 8th June, 2010 and Wednesday 9th June 2010. However, submission of application form is mandatory. Merit list for different disciplines will be announced after the interviews i.e. on 9th June 2010 itself. You may consider staying back in Pune for two to three days more after the interview, so that in the event of your selection, you may complete the counselling and selection of research guides. In case it is not possible for you to stay back, your placement will be made as per the option of research guides to be exercised by you during the interview. Kindly note that no TA/DA will be paid to you for attending the interview and completing the counselling and that NO further communication e.g. call letter will be issued for interview, separately. Please also note that the candidates who have passed NET examination under Lecturer category are NOT eligible.
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