PhD at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune

National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune has invited applications for PhD programme in Science and Engineering, for the August 2012 session.

RESEARCH AREAS :

Advanced Functional Materials
Agricultural Biotechnology
Artificial Intelligence
Biomass for Energy, Fuels, and Chemicals
Bioorganic Chemistry
Biotransformation and Enzymes
Catalysis (Homogeneous and Heterogeneous)
Chaos Theory and Turbulence
Chemical Engineering
CO2 storage and utilization
Coal Gasification and Combustion
Complex Fluids and Polymer Engineering
Crystal Chemistry and Crystallography
Crystallization
Effluent Treatment/Water Recycle and Reuse
Electrochemical Power Sources and Energy Technology
Environmental Biotechnology 
Fuel Cells
Fluid Modeling and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Genomics and Molecular Parasitology
Green Chemistry
Hydrogen Generation
Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Materials Chemistry/Physics
Materials for Solar Energy
Materials for Biomedical Applications
Mathematical and System Biology
Medicinal Chemistry
Microbial and Mammalian Cell Culture
Microbial Fermentation
Microbial Technology and Microbial Genetics
Micro-fluidics
Mixing and Micro-mixing
Molecular Host-pathogen Interactions
Molecular Marker Technology
Multiphase Flows
Multiphase Reactors
Nanomaterials
Nonlinear Dynamics
Organic Chemistry
Physical Organic Chemistry
Plant Tissue Culture
Polymer Science
Process Design Modeling and Simulation
Process Engineering and Scale-up
Process Intensification
Proteomics
Reaction Engineering
Reactive Separations
Separation Science
Soft Condensed Matter Theory
Solid State NMR of Materials
Structure-function and Crystallography of Biomolecules
Structure-Property-Processing Correlation Studies
Surfaces and Interfaces
Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Science
Tissue Engineering
Utilization of Natural Gas
Wireless Process Sensors and Process Control 

Eligibility Criteria :

* PhD Programme in Science :
(i) Masters degree in Chemical / Physical / Biological and related sciences / technology AND
(ii) A valid research fellowship offer from UGC / CSIR / DBT / ICMR / BINC / DST-INSPIRE or any other research fellowship programme.
Candidates who have qualified only the CSIR/UGC lectureship (LS) category or GATE are not eligible to apply.

* PhD Programme in Engineering :
(1) For applicants with Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering / Technology / related discipline :
(i) Minimum of 55% marks or 5.5 CGPA or equivalent at the Bachelor's degree level (50%  marks or 5.0 CGPA for SC/ST/PH candidates).
(ii) A valid GATE score above the qualifying score for that subject OR a valid research fellowship offer from CSIR / UGC / DBT / ICMR / BINC / DST-INSPIRE or any other research fellowship programme.
(iii) Age on August 15, 2012 should be less than 28 yrs (relaxable upto 5 years in case of candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe, women, physically handicapped and OBC applicants).

(2) For applicants with Master's degree in Chemical Engineering / Technology / related discipline :
(i) Minimum of 55% marks or 5.5 CGPA or equivalent at the Master's degree level (50%  marks or 5.0 CGPA for SC/ST/PH candidates)
(ii) A valid research fellowship offer from CSIR / UGC / DBT / ICMR / BINC / DST-INSPIRE or any other research fellowship programme.

Application :
Online application can be submitted at : http://acsir-phd.csio.res.in

Important dates :
* Last date for submitting applications online : May 18, 2012
* Publication of the list of candidates called for Screening test / Interview : On or before May 31, 2012
* Dates of Interview at CSIR-NCL : 13th & 14th June, 2012
* Counseling : June 15, 2012
* Last date for joining at CSIR-NCL : July 14, 2012
* Last date for registration for course work : July 21, 2012

For further details, logon to : http://www.ncl-india.org/PhDAdmission/Phd_admission_webpage.htm