Information regarding intake for August 2025 & Online Application Form

Apply to SINP for PhD in Physics and Biophysical Sciences starting from August 2025, in Physics you can apply for Theoretical or Experimental Physics.
Session will start from August 1, 2025

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Eligibility

Physics
MSc in Physics or BSc with 4 Yrs (8-Semester) in Physics

Life Sciences and Chemical Sciences
MSc in Physics / Chemistry (with Biology at 10+2 level) or
MSc in Life Sciences (with Chemistry and Mathematics at 10+2 level) or
BSc with 4 Yrs (8-Semester) in Physics / Chemistry / Biology or
M. Tech in Biotechnology (with PCMB at 10+2 level)

Openings may be available only in following areas

Theoretical Physics

List of Guides
Abhik Basu
Arti Garg
Arunava Mukherjee
Ashish Shukla
Kalpataru Pradhan
Krishanu Roychowdhury
Shilpa Kastha

List of topics
a) Condensed Matter Physics: Quantum Magnetism, Topological systems, Out-of-equilibrium quantum many-body systems and Strongly correlated systems, Non-equilibrium statistical physics,and biological physics.

b) Quantum field theory and String Theory: Transport in relativistic hydrodynamics and applied AdS/CFT correspondence

c) Astroparticle Physics and Gravitational Waves : Tests of General Relativity using gravitational wave observations,black-hole spectroscopy, Multi-messenger Astrophysics

Experimental Physics | Topics (Guides)

1. Experimental Condensed Matter Physics and Material Science :

Oxide based spintronics / Project topic: To synthesis oxide based 2D electron gas and 2D hole gas and study their transport properties for energy efficient spin-orbitronics. (Srijani Mallik)
Quantum optoelectronics and spectroscopy on two dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials(Swarup Deb)
1. Organic Semiconductor thin films and their application, 2. Hybrid perovskites for device applications (Mrinmay Mukhopadhyay)
Functional Materials for the application as sensors; Quantum Hall effects and device application (Biswajit Karmakar)
Spectro-microscopic studies on layered heterostructure materials (Krishnakumar S R Menon)
1. Thin film growth of embedded oxide heterostructure for thin film transistor applications, 2. Bulk single crystal growth of mixed crystals for optoelectronic applications(Satyaban Bhunia)
Understanding fundamental principles behind electron transport through atomic-scale junctions(Sudipto Chakrabarti)
1. Dissipation-less spin transport and topological superconductivity in superconductor/ferromagnet van der Waals heterostructures, 2. Unconventional magnetism and spin transport in Moiré superlattice heterostructures(Samik Dutta Gupta)

2. Experimental Nuclear Physics : Nuclear Astrophysics with FRENA and other low energy accelerators and nuclear instrumentation at FRENA (Akashrup Banerjee)

3. Experimental High Energy Physics and Astroparticle Physics :

Direct Detection Dark Matter Search experiment/simulation studies. ( Arka Santra)
1. Ultra low-mass dark matter, 2. New Techniques for large detector R&D for ultra low-mass dark matter detection. (Mala Das)
1. Understanding the primordial Universe: experimental studies, 2. Exploring Quark-Gloun plasma : a novel state of matter (Debasish Das)
Multiwavelength and multimessenger study of galactic and extragalactic sources or Indirect Detection of Dark Matter (Pratik Majumdar)

Life Sciences and Chemical Science
Topics (Guides)

Epigenetic regulations of T Cells in Autoimmunity (Aditi Chandra)
Super-resolution Microscopy and transcription Regulation (Barun Maity)
Nano-Bio Materials Chemistry (Dulal Senapati)
Role of Lamins in regulation of Carcinogenesis (Kaushik Sengupta)
Laser Spectroscopy and Theoretical calculations (Montu K Hazra)
Untangling DNA mismatch repair complexes at Singe-Molecule resolution (Padmaja Prasad Mishra)
Cancer Metabolism, RNA modification (Soumen K Manna)
Nanomaterials for Disease diagnostics, NIR Spectroscopy (Srestha Basu)
Biophysical Approach to Protein Structure-Function Dynamics (Subhabrata Majumder)
Computational Enzyme design, Drug design and targets (Subhendu Roy)
Drug design to combat anti-microbial resistance, Cryo-EM (Tofayel Ahmed)

Students who have appeared for their final examination of M.Sc. or B.Sc. (4 yrs.) degree in 2025 and have yet to receive their final degree may also apply. Such admissions will be provisional till they submit their final mark sheet/certificate in compliance with the cut-off requirements of SINP for the year 2025 (to be announced).

Application procedure
All eligible students must apply through our online portal only. The link is available here.

Selection procedure
Shortlisting will be made based on previous academic records, performances in the following nation-wide screening tests:

For Physics (Experimental and Theoretical): CSIR/UGC NET (June 2023 onwards), GATE (2023 – 2025) in Physics

For Life Sciences and Chemical Sciences: JGEEBILS (Joint Graduate Entrance Examination for Biology and Interdisciplinary Life Sciences) conducted by NCBS-TIFR, CSIR/UGC/DBT/ICMR NET (JRF Only), GATE

SINP WILL NOT CARRY OUT AN ADDITIONAL WRITTEN TEST DURING SELECTION.

The list shortlist of candidates will be published in this webpage. The shortlisted candidates will be called for interviews:

“Online / In-person” for Experimental Physics (Students will be given the option to choose one of the modes).

“ONLINE / In-person” for Theoretical Physics

“ONLINE / In-person” for Life Sciences and Chemical Sciences

Shortlisted candidates will be informed by email also. Final selection of candidates will be based on their past records and interviews. Selected candidates will be informed by email and also through announcement in this web page.

Important Information
All candidates must apply through online portal with hall ticket number/rank/percentile marks of national level qualification tests JGEEBILS/NET/GATE etc. SINP holds full rights to select/not select a candidate at any stage of the selection process.

Fellowships and benefits
The selected students will be admitted as Junior Research Fellow (JRF) of SINP.

Fellowships
37,000/- p.m. for JRF
42,000/- p.m. for SRF

Tenure: 4 years, extendable to the 5th year. Yearly renewals and 5th year extensions are subject to satisfactory performance.

Contingency, HRA, Medical benefits, etc. are as per extant rules.

Limited hostel accommodations are available.

Last Date of Submission of Application online: 9th June, 2025.

Approximate number of Intake in August 2025: 40

Visit this webpage regularly for all updates

For any query, contact the coordinators:

Theoretical Physics: pmsc.phys[AT]saha.ac.in
Experimental Physics: pmsc.exptphys[AT]saha.ac.in
Life Sciences and Chemical Sciences : pmsc.bio[AT]saha.ac.in

Last Updated on Friday, 09 May 2025 17:52