Ph D (Integrated)Programmes
The Institute offers exciting opportunities to motivated and talented Bachelor’s degree holders with a keen
sense of scientific enquiry for pursuing advanced research in frontier areas of Biological, Chemical, Physical
and Mathematical Sciences leading to a Ph D degree. Experience shows that students entering this program
save nearly a year compared to those who go for a 2 years Master's degree program elsewhere and then
join the Institute for a Ph D program. Each year, the Institute admits 50 to 60 students (15 to 18 in
Biological Sciences, 15 to 18 in Chemical Sciences, 15 to 18 in Physical Sciences and 15 to 18 in
Mathematical Sciences) under this program. The program consists of flexible course work, an internshiptype laboratory training (wherein ample opportunities exist for the candidate to acquire basic experimental
skills and familiarity with advanced techniques for research), a research project to demonstrate attainment of
a high degree of scientific ability followed by advanced research leading to a Ph D thesis on a specific topic.
Eligibility
Candidates with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology/Biotechnology/ Chemistry/ Physics/ Mathematics/
Pharmacy/ Veterinary Sciences/ Agriculture as applicable to individual discipline, under the 10+2+3/4
system, are eligible to apply to this program.
Candidates with BE/ B Tech degree and qualify in Mathematics/ Mathematical Statistics paper
in JAM are eligible to apply to the Mathematical Sciences discipline.
Candidates with BE/ B Tech degree and qualify in Biotechnology paper in JAM are also eligible
to opt IISc as one of the choice of Institution in the JAM website, after the JAM results are
announced and choose Biological Sciences discipline.
Candidates who seek admission to the Ph D (Integrated) programmes at IISc should qualify in
JAM 2016 must submit the IISc online application during February/March 2016. The JAM result
must be updated online immediately after the JAM results are announced.
Candidates who are taking Biological Science (BL) or Biotechnology (BT) paper in JAM 2016
and seek admission to the Ph D (Integrated) programme in Biological Sciences at IISc need not
fill IISc online application as the selection is only through JAM.
Candidates who have cleared JEST 2016 and seek admission to the Ph D (Integrated)
programme in Physical Sciences are also eligible to apply.
Additional notes
(a) The minimum requirement for admission to the Integrated Ph D program is a FIRST CLASS or
equivalent Grade in the Bachelor’s degree (as declared by the University) as indicated against each
department.
(b) The minimum requirement of FIRST CLASS in the qualifying examination is relaxed to PASS
CLASS for SC/ST candidates.
(c) Some departments have specific requirements of subjects at the Bachelor’s or 10+2 levels.
Candidates have to ensure that they meet these requirements.
(d) Those in the final year of their qualifying examination and awaiting results are also eligible to apply.
However, they should have completed all the requirements for the award of the qualifying degree,
including all examinations, dissertation projects, viva-voce, etc., by the time of joining, i.e., by end of
July 2016.
Ph D (Integrated) Programmes – The disciplines, minimum qualifications, areas of research are listed in
the table given below. Candidates can choose to apply for up to a maximum of 2 disciplines.
Discipline:
Biological Sciences
Department/Centre/Unit
Biochemistry, Centre for
Ecological Sciences,
Molecular Reproduction,
Development &
Genetics, Molecular
Biophysics, Microbiology
& Cell Biology, and
Centre for Neuroscience
(BS).
Basic Qualification
First Class in Bachelor’s or an
equivalent degree in Physical,
Chemical or Biological
Sciences (including
Biotechnology,
Pharmaceutical, Veterinary
Sciences and Agricultural
Sciences).
Areas of Research
Biomembranes - Physical and Physiological Studies;
Structure-Function of Nucleic Acids; Gene Structure
and Function in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes; Microbial
and Human Genetics; Recombinant DNA Technology;
Molecular Virology and Mechanisms of Disease
Processes; Enzymology, Protein Chemistry and
Engineering; Cellular and Applied Immunology;
Molecular Endocrinology and Reproductive Biology;
Conformation of Biomolecules and Biopolymers;
Protein and Virus Crystallography; Structural Biology;
Mathematical Ecology; Human Ecology; Behaviour
and Sociobiology; Conservation Ecology; Evolutionary
Biology, Ecophysiology, Plant Molecular Biology and
Development, Imprinting, Molecular Oncology, Cell
Biology. Neurobiology of diseases, Nervous System
Development, Stem Cell Biology, Cognitive
Neuroscience and Computation in visual and motor
systems.
Chemical Sciences
Department/Centre/Unit
Organic Chemistry,
Inorganic & Physical
Chemistry, Solid State &
Structural Chemistry Unit
and Materials Research
Centre (CS).
Basic Qualification
First Class in B Sc or an
equivalent degree with
Chemistry as one of the main
subjects with Mathematics at
the PUC or Plus 2 level.
Areas of Research
Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics; Theoretical Chemistry;
Surface Chemistry and Catalysis; Chemical Kinetics;
Solid State Materials Chemistry; Amorphous Materials;
Ceramics, Super-Conductors; Synthetic Organic,
Physical Organic and Organometallic Chemistry;
Chemistry of Transition & Non-Transition Metals;
Bioinorganic Chemistry; Bioorganic Chemistry,
Chemical Biology; Biomaterials and Biological
Proceses at Materials Interface; Supermolecular
Chemistry; Chemistry of Polymers; Electrochemistry:
Principles, Electrochemical Energy Storage and
Generation, Electrochemical Devices; Molecular and
Van der Walls Spectroscopy; Development of NMR
Methodologies and Applications.
Basic Qualification
First Class in B Sc or an
equivalent degree with Physics
as one of the main subjects.
Areas of Research
(A) Experimental Studies: (I) Condensed Matter
Physics (Ii) Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics,
and (Iii) X-Ray Crystallography of Bio-Molecular
Structures.
Specific Areas Include: Raman and Other
Spectroscopies; Fast Ionic Conductivity; Manipulation
of Matter By Light, Laser Cooling and Trapping of
Atoms, Ion Trapping, Precision Laser Spectroscopy;
Magnetism, Spintronics, Magnetic Thin Films,
Magnetotransport; Quantum Transport in LowDimensional and Disordered Materials, The MetalInsulator Transition; Magnetic Resonance
Phenomena; NMR Spectroscopy; Nanoscience and
Nanomaterials; Superconductivity in Bulk as well as
Thin Films; Semiconductors; Ferroelectricity, Crystal
Growth Studies, Nonlinear Optical Materials,
Physical Sciences
Department/Centre/Unit
Physics and
Centre for High Energy
Physics (PS).
Multiferroics; Phase Transition Studies, High Pressure
and Low Temperature Studies, Study of Low
Dimensional Materials, Amorphous Materials, Novel
Glasses and Nanocomposites; Soft Condensed
Matter: Colloids, Surfactants and Biological Material;
Peptide and Protein Crystallography, Complexation
Studies and Drug-Nucleic Acid Interactions, Molecular
Modeling, Database Analysis; Polymer Physics,
Surface X-Ray Scattering, Surface Phase Transitions.
(B)Theoretical Studies On a Variety of Aspects of
Condensed Matter Physics, in Particular: Strongly
Correlated Systems, Quantum Many-Body Theory and
Magnetism, Exotic Order and Quantum Criticality;
Phase Transitions, Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium
Statistical Physics; Disordered and Amorphous
Systems, The Glass Transition, Neural Networks;
Spatiotemporal Chaos and Turbulence in Fluids,
Plasmas and Cardiac Tissue; Soft Condensed Matter:
Colloids, Surfactants, Membranes, Liquid Crystals,
Vortex Lattices; Biological Physics: The Mechanics of
Living Matter; Molecular Modeling of Soft and BioMaterials.
(C) High Energy Physics: Quantum Field Theory,
The Standard Model of Particle Physics and Beyond,
Physics of and At High Energy Particle Colliders, Field
Theory in Non-Commutative Space Time, Quantum
Computation, Applications of Quantum Field Theory
To Condensed Matter Systems, String Theory.
(D) Theoretical Astrophysics: Cosmology, Dark
Energy. Physics Around Black Holes, Nuclear
Astrophysics, Galactic Astronomy, Interstellar Matter.
Plasma Astrophysics, Solar Physics.
Mathematical Sciences
Department
Mathematics (MS)
Basic Qualification
First Class in B Sc or
equivalent degree with
Mathematics as one of the
subjects or
BE/ B Tech or equivalent
degree.
Areas of Research
Numerical Analysis, Partial Differential Equations,
Controllability, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos,
Probability Theory, Random Matrix Theory and
Random Analytic Functions, Applied Probability and
Stochastic Processes, Stochastic Control, Stochastic
Dynamic Games, Stochastic Geometry, Interacting
Particle Systems,, Time Series Analysis with
Applications to Neuroscience, Mathematical Finance,
Functional Analysis, Harmonic Analysis, Several
Complex Variables, Operator Theory, Algebraic
Topology, Geometric Topology, Combinatorial
Topology, Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry,
Differential Geometry, Representation Theory, Noncommutative Geometry, Combinatorics, Mathematical
Physics, Experimental Mathematics, Modular Forms,
Analytic Number Theory.