Application for Post-Doctoral Positions (2025-2026)

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IUCAA invites applications from highly motivated researchers for its Post-Doctoral Programme.

The academic year at IUCAA begins in August every year. Since this is a mid-year advertisement, we expect the incumbent to join IUCAA on or after January 1, 2026.

Instructions:
- Please ensure that you have all necessary documents & files ready with you before you start filling in the application.
- Please restrict the size of the files to be uploaded at # 12 & 13 to 2MB per file. You are NOT required to upload scanned copies of your mark-sheets or degree certificates.
- After you have submitted your application an acknowledgement will be sent to you. Emails will also be sent to the referees mentioned by you, requesting them to submit a confidential assessment report about you, online. For this purpose they will be provided with a separate interface on our website as well as a login and password. We suggest that you keep checking with your referees periodically to find if they have uploaded their reports.
- Once the referees have uploaded their confidential reports an email acknowledgement will be sent to them with a copy to you.
- For the current cycle the last date for receipt of applications is September 22, 2025 [Extended]. Please avoid last minute rush and submit your online application well before the last date.
- The last date for submitting referees reports is September 24, 2025. Please ensure that your referees get adequate time to submit their confidential assessment reports.
- Successful selected candidates will be informed before the end of October 2025.
- Successful candidates are normally expected to commence their fellowship during January 2026.

Click here to know the procedure for applying for a Non-IUCAA Funded Post-Doctoral Fellowship (NIF-PDF) position.

For any academic related issues, please contact the Coordinator, Core Academic Programmes (aocp@iucaa.in)

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Application for:

Project Post-Doctoral Position

You have ticked the “Project Post-Doctoral Position” checkbox above, Please select the project(s) that you would like to apply for:
[Click here for Project details.]

First complete view of the Magellanic bridge stellar population with X-rays - Prof. Chandreyee Maitra
Forming galaxies in the first few hundred million-year (NINJA simulations) - Prof. R. Srianand
Gas-galaxy co-evolution using optical/NIR spectroscopy and imaging - Prof. Rajeshwari Dutta
Gravitational Wave Instrumentation - Prof. Sanjit Mitra
Gravitational-Wave Astronomy with LIGO-India and Next-Generation Detectors - Prof. Bhooshan Gadre
High-resolution stellar spectroscopy and chemical abundance analysis - Prof. Anupam Bhardwaj
IUCAA Rubin LSST - Prof. Kanak Saha
MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS) - Prof. Neeraj Gupta
Morphology of variable stellar populations in dwarf spheroidal galaxies - Prof. Anupam Bhardwaj
Optical fiber based quantum enhanced distributed acoustic sensing - Prof. Subhadeep De
SUIT Project - Prof. Durgesh Tripathi
Solar Active Regions & Flares - Prof. Durgesh Tripathi

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