Information regarding intake for January 2026 & Online Application Form

Apply to SINP for PhD in Physics and Life and Chemical Sciences starting from January 2026, in Physics you can apply for Theoretical or Experimental Physics.
Session will start from January 1, 2026

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

Experimental Physics | Topics (Guides)

1. Experimental Condensed Matter Physics and Material Science :

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)

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)

2. Experimental High Energy Physics and Astroparticle Physics :

1. Ultra low-mass dark matter, 2. New Techniques for large detector R&D for ultra low-mass dark matter detection. (Mala Das)

Life Sciences and Chemical Science | Topics (Guides)

Epigenetic regulations of T Cells in Autoimmunity (Aditi Chandra)

Super-resolution Microscopy and transcription Regulation (Barun Maity)

Epigenetic and Cancer Biology (Chandrima Das)

Neuroscience, RNA Biology (Debashis Mukhopadhyay)

Nano-Optics and Nano-Photonics (Dulal Senapati)

Membrane Biophysics (H Raghuraman)

4D Nucleome of Ovarian Cancer (Kaushik Sengupta)

Laser Spectroscopy and Theoretical calculations (Montu K Hazra)

Organellar dynamics & Proteostasis (Oishee Chakraborty)

Synthetic Biology (Sangram Bagh)

Cancer Metabolism, Host Microbiome Iteraction (Soumen K Manna)

Computational Enzyme design, G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCR) (Subhendu Roy)

Drug design to combat anti-microbial resistance, Cryo-EM (Tofayel Ahmed)

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 : CSIR/UGC NET (December 2023 onwards), GATE (2023 – 2025) in Physics, JEST 2025

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, 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” for Experimental Physics.

“Online” 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: 07th December, 2025.

Approximate number of Intake in January 2026 : 11

Visit this webpage regularly for all updates

For any query, contact the coordinators:
  Experimental Physics: pmsc.exptphys[AT]saha.ac.in
  Life Sciences and Chemical Sciences : pmsc.bio[AT]saha.ac.in

Epigenetic and Cancer Biology (Chandrima Das)
Neuroscience, RNA Biology (Debashis Mukhopadhyay)

Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 November 2025 17:08