Post-doctoral Positions and Fellowships

Sr. no Position and duration Monthly fellowship Annual contingency Remarks 1

Vaidya-Raychaudhury Post-doctoral positions

(Duration: 5 years)

INR 70,000/-* during the first 2 years,

INR 80,000/-* in the subsequent years

INR 2,00,000/-* refer to "Included benefits" below 2

Regular Post-doctoral positions

(Duration: 2 years extendable to a maximum of 3 years based on performance)

INR 54,000/-* INR 40,000/-* refer to "Included benefits" below

*All amounts in Indian Rupees

Facilities at IUCAA include a network of state-of-the-art computers, high performance computing clusters, high speed internet connections, mirror sites of important databases, a very well equipped instrumentation laboratory, and a library with exhaustive collection of books and periodicals.

IUCAA operates a 2 m optical telescope, IUCAA Girawali Observatory (IGO), at Girawali which is about 80 km from IUCAA campus. IUCAA is a partner in the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), which is a 10m class telescope suited for imaging and spectroscopic observations of faint and distant objects. IUCAA is a major participant in space-based Indian astronomy missions AstroSat (current) and Aditya-L1 (upcoming ), as well as in future projects including LIGO-India and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).

In addition to the regular post-doctoral positions, a few positions are available in selected research areas. Please check the IUCAA website for the list of research areas in which additional post-doctoral positions are available in a given year. (This number is periodically updated and the candidate is free to apply to multiple subject areas.)

Successful candidates will normally be expected to commence their fellowship during August 2023. 

Research areas at IUCAA:

• Classical and Quantum Gravity
• Cosmic Magnetic Fields
• Cosmic Microwave Background
• Cosmology and Large Scale Structure
• Dark Matter and Dark Energy
• Diffuse Matter in Space
• Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy
• Gravitational Waves
• High Energy Astrophysics
• Instrumentation for Astronomy
• Interstellar Medium
• Observational Astronomy (Optical, UV, X-ray, and Radio)
• Solar Physics
• Solar System and Stellar Physics

• Quantum technologies