Fellowship in collaboration with TIFR for promoting cross border interactions between researchers

About Us

SFPI fellowship is a collaboration with Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), a National Centre of the Government of India. It is part of a TIFR general purpose Endowment Fund to promote flexible funding of new initiatives at the Institute in research activities at the forefront of Science, Technology and Mathematics.

We launched this initiative in 2000. The key goal of this program is to encourage education with a particular emphasis on research in sciences and the public dissemination of the excitement in science and technology. It seeks to encourage the young population to take up careers in science and technology, and foster scientific interactions between the distinguished visitors, their institutions and researchers in India.

This is done in two ways

"Researchers in India need more opportunities to interact and exchange ideas with their counterparts internationally. This fellowship with a reputed academic institution like TIFR will help foster knowledge exchange and intellectual growth."

- Founders Vision

Student Fellowships

Through this Fellowship many research students selected by TIFR travel and meet with their counterparts in other labs outside India and expand their scientific network and collaboration. They have opportunities to present their papers in international forums and collaborate with teams abroad on problems of common interest.

Eminent Visitor Program

We have brought in very eminent scientists from across the world to India to deliver lectures at different academic venues. The key goal of this program is public dissemination of the excitement in science and technology, to encourage the young population to take up careers in science and technology, and foster scientific interactions between the distinguished visitors, their institutions and researchers in India.

Name	Institute/Department
Nisha Singhal	CAM, Bangalore
Ankita Ghosh	NCRS, TIFR
Rashi Jain	NCRA, Pune
Sukanya Raman	NCBS, Bangalore
Aditya Singh Rajput	ICTS, Bangalore
Himanshu Tyagi	DAA, TIFR
Ramananda Santra	NCRA, Pune
Manikandan M	DCS, TIFR. Mumbai
Koshvendra Singh	DAA, TIFR, Mumbai
Hadiya Shamim	NCBS, Bangalore
Yukta Khurana	DAA
Achintya Srivastava	DBS, TIFR, Mumbai
Achintya Srivastava	DBS, TIFR
Nivedhya Venas	NCBS, Bangalore
Kiran Bajar	DNAP, TIFR, Mumbai
Rahul Verma	DCMP-MS, TIFR, Mumbai
Ritwik Mukherjee	ICTS, Bangalore
Subhra Ranjita Pattanayak	TIFR-H, Hyderabad
Subhajit Dandapat	DAA
Rishabh Sharma	TIFR-H, Hyderabad
Souvik Kundu	DTP, TIFR, Mumbai
Subhajit Dandapat	DAA, TIFR, Mumbai
Ashutosh Shankar	STCS, TIFR, Mumbai
Simran Arora	DCS, TIFR, Mumbai
Souvik Jena	ICTS, Bangalore
Anupama Souri Das	HBCSE
Debshankar Saha Roy	Chemical Sciences
Bibek Samal	DCS
Aparajit Chandrasekaran	DNAP, TIFR, Mumbai
Dibya Sankar Chattopadhyay	DTP, TIFR, Mumbai
Abdul Wasim	TIFr-H, Hyderabad
Anzal KS	NCBS, Bangalore
Darshana Kapri	Biological Sciences
Shubhada Agarwal	School of Technology and Computer Science
Varun Suresh	Biological Sciences
Shubhada Agarwal	School of Technology and Computer Science
Biswajit Das	DNAP
Rahul Tiwary	DHEP
Arghya Chakraborty	STCS, TIFR, Mumbai
Aman Kumar	DTP
Sunil Jaiswal	DNAP
Meena Kharatmal	HBCSE, Mumbai
Dr. Krishnakumar Ravindran (postdoc)	DHEP, TIFR, Mumbai

Name	Awards	Institute
Prof. Roger Blandford	Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2020	“Pehong and Adele Chen Director, Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, USA”
Prof. C.K.N. Patel	National Medal of Science in 1996	Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles
Prof. Brezis Haim	Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement 2024	Dept. of Mathematics, Rutgers, The State University, Piscataway, USA
Prof. Leon Sanche	Marie Curie Fellowship for incoming senior scientists Humboldt Research Award	Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiobiology,University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Prof. Alain Connes	CNRS Gold Medal (2004)	College de France, France
Prof. Mildred Dresshauls	“Kavli Prize in Nanoscience – $1 Million Award US Presidential Medal of Freedom – highest civilian award of US National Medal of Science and Enrico Fermi Award – prestigious awards conferred by US President”	MIT Physics Dept., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Prof. Frank Wilczek	Nobel Prize in Physics 2004	Massachuseetts Inst. of Technology, USA
Prof. Jorgen C. Dalsgaard	Crafoord Prize in Astronomy 2024	Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus C, Denmark
Gottfried Dohler	Walter Schottky Prize from the German Physical Society	University of Erlangen, Germany
Prof. Horsk Stormer	Nobel Prize in Physics, 1998	Columbia University, New York.
Prof. Joel L. Lebowitz	Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2021)	Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA.
Prof. Kurt Wuthrich, Nobel Laureate	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002	Institut fur Molekularbiologie & Biophysik, Switzerland
Prof. Malvin Ruderman	Guggenheim Fellowship in 1956	Columbia University, New York.
Prof. Jared Diamond	Blue Planet Prize: (2019)	David Geffeb School of Medicine at UCLA
Prof. Evelyn Keller Fox	MacArthur Fellowship (1992)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U. S. A.
Prof. Jeremiah P. Ostriker	Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2015)	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Prof. David Gross	Nobel Prize in Physics 2004	Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, U. S. A.
Prof. Sunil K. Sinha	Compton Prize of the Advanced Photon Source	University of California, San Diego, U. S. A.
Prof. Gerard T’Hooft,	Nobel Laureate Physics (1999)	University of Uterecht,
Prof. Eli Yablonovitch	Frederic Ives Medal / Jarus W. Quinn Prize 2019 Benjamin Franklin medal 2019	University of California, Los Angeles, U. S. A.
Prof. Fransisco Jose Barrantes	Argentine Biochemical Association Prize 2017	Instituto de Investigaciones, Argentina
Prof. V. G. Kac	Shaw Prize in Mathematics (2008)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U. S. A.
Prof. Baldomero M. Olivera	Lavoisier Medal	University of Utah, U. S. A.
Sir Prof. Arnold Wolfendale	Copley Medal (2010)	University of Durham
Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya	Padma Shri (2007)	NEC Research Institute, U. S. A.
Prof. William A. Coles	Fellow in the American Physical Society	University of California, San Diego, California, U. S. A.
Prof. Louis Nirenberg	To visit in January 2003	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. U. S. A.
Prof. Amir Pnueli	Turing Award (1996)	Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel.
Prof. Stephen Hawking	Presidential Medal of Freedom	Dept. of Applied Mathematics and theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EW United Kingdom
Prof. S. R. Kulkarni	Visit details not yet finalised. Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2009) Not visited. No record	California Institute of Technology, 320-47 Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125 U. S. A.
Prof. Maura Mc Laughlin	Shaw Prize (2023) in Astronomy	West Virginia University
Prof. Abraham Nitzan	Donner professor of Physical Sciences and Professor of Chemistry	University of Pennsylvania
Prof. Dame Janet Thornton	Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) EMBO Member (2000)	EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Cambridge CB10 1SD
Prof. Nathan Seiberg	The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2018) for contributions to theoretical physics.	Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton