NCL Pune PhD Admissions 2011 Notification

NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY

Dr.HomiBhagha Road

PUNE 411 008

NCL PhD Programme 2011

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, http://www.ncl.org.in ) is a major knowledge based laboratory devoted to research. 

Research Areas in NCL:

 Advanced functional Materials
 Agricultural Biotechnology
 Artificial Intelligence
 Bioorganic Chemistry  Catalysis (Homogeneous and Heterogeneous)
 Chaos Theory and Turbulence
 Complex Fluids and Polymer Engineering
 Electrochemical power sources and Energy Technology
 Fluid Modelling and Computational Fluid Dynamics
 Green Chemistry
 Materials for Solar Energy
 Mathematical & System Biology
 Microbial and Mammalian Cell Culture
 Molecular Host-pathogen Interactions
 Molecular Marker Technology  Nanomaterials
 Nonlinear Dynamics
 Organic Chemistry
 Plant Tissue Culture
 Polymer Science
 Process Design Modelling and Simulation
 Reaction Engineering
 Separation Science
 Solid State NMR of Materials
 Structure-function and Crystallography of Biomolecules  Structure-property-processing correlation studies
 Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Science

The research groups in NCL 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.

The PhD program consists of flexible course work, laboratory training, research project to demonstrate attainment of a high degree of scientific ability which is followed by advanced research leading to a PhD thesis on a specific topic. The PhD program is normally completed in 4-5 years. During the first year, the students have to go through a course work covering basic and advanced topics. The students are encouraged to take courses in inter-disciplinary areas. Apart from the subject courses, short courses in scientific communication and laboratory safety are mandatory for all the students. As part of the PhD program, the PhD student is expected to give at least two seminars. 

Various awards, for best research work, best publication, travel grant to attend conferences abroad, etc are provided to Ph.D. students. Additional incentives will be available for interdisciplinary research. Excellent hostel facilities with mess, gymnasium, wi-fi and internet access are available for regular NCL students. More hostel and student recreation facilities will be coming up for the benefit of research students.

Admission for the PhD program in science will be done in the month of June and December. Advertisements will be placed in national newspapers and those who are interested in joining NCL may give their first preference as NCL in the application form.

Admission is through an initial screening of the applications followed by personal interview. The admission requirement for the PhD program in the science stream is MSc in any branch of science and the students should have qualified for a UGC/CSIR/DBT/ICMR/BINC/INSPIRE or any other Fellowship.

The number of students to be selected in the areas of physical, chemical, and biological sciences will depend on the vacancies that will exist for each of the disciplines.

The selected JRFs will be eligible for a fellowship 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) based on an assessment. The total tenure including the fellowship period shall not exceed 5 years. 

Application procedure and interview schedule: 

Candidates applying to the PhD program who fulfil the requirements may apply online at the NCL/AcSIR website. The list of candidates eligible for appearing interviews, after initial screening will be uploaded on the NCL/AcSIR website. The interviews will be held during June 21-23, 2011 at NCL. List of selected candidates under different disciplines will be announced after the interviews. Students may consider staying back in Pune for two to three days more after the interviews, so that in the event of their selection, they may complete the counselling and selection of research guides. Counselling will be held on June 24, 2011, at 10:00 AM. Details of counselling will be announced at the time of the interviews. The selected candidates are required to join for research on or before July 31, 2011. No TA/DA will be paid for attending the interview.

Details of scientists accepting students (will be available soon)

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Post-graduate program in Engineering:

Candidates with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering/technology will be considered for the post-graduate program in engineering. Such candidates should not use the PhD application form. A separate form will be available at the CSIO website. Till such a time that the detailed application procedure, vacancies and eligibility criteria for the session starting in 2011 is available, the 2010 process and details are available for reference at http://pgrpe2010.csio.res.in/. Please note that for NCL, it is expected that there will be one common postgraduate program in chemical engineering, with the option of specialization through research projects in the fields of advanced modelling and simulation, or advanced materials and processes.

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