India's International Fellows
The government of India has taken several initiatives towards the international exposure of scientists working in India in addition to providing lucrative incentives to bring back the eminent scientists to the country vis-a-vis implementation of several International Fellowship Programmes / Schemes.
These International Fellowships include:
i) Fellowships for attracting highly skilled, outstanding researchers and scientists of Indian origin working abroad by providing them an attractive avenue to pursue their R&D interests in Indian Institutions.
ii) Fellowships providing opportunities to the best and brightest Indian students/ researchers / scientists to go abroad and gain exposure to world class research facilities and peers in leading institutions, thereby helping to build long-term R&D linkages and collaborations.
iii) Besides these, Indian scientists regularly apply for other international fellowships and their contributions are significant in the international arena.
These efforts have helped develop a pool of talents who are helping in the furtherance of excellence in science in the country. This Section provides information regarding the scholars honoured with these International Fellowships, the year of award, their affiliations and their area of work. It includes information regarding scholars like Ramanujan Fellows, Ramalingaswami Fellows, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Fellows, Fulbrighters, Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Fellows, Indo-Australia Early and Mid-Career Researchers (EMCR) and so on...
India International Talents
| Awardee | Fellowship Name | Year | Affiliation | Specialisation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anisa Bhutia | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai; Brown University | Local Town, Global Connections: An Ethnographic and Historical e)construction of Kalimpong |
| Anooja Thomas | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee; University of California | Coupling Water and Nutrient Uptake by Plants under Non-optimal Soil Moisture Conditions with HYDRUS Simulator |
| Mary Vidya Porselvi Roy Arun Valan Arasu | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | Loyola College, Chennai; University of Texas at Austin, Austin | Indian Classical Ecocriticism: An Ecofeminist-Semiotic Study |
| Shivaji Deshmukh | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | District Institute of Education and Training, Buldhana; Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana | Accelerated Learning Program Useful for the Enhancement of Weaker Community Students |
| Santosh Kumar Bisen | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kabirdham; Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana | Significance of science cartoons and comics in teaching and learning to make it more interesting in middle school |
| Veeresh Kumar | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru; North Carolina State University | Effects of Floral Secondary Chemistry on Bee Health, Disease, and Immune Function |
| Viswajyothi Keezhpattillam | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | Kerala Agricultural University (KAU), Thiruvananthapuram; Brigham Young University | Molecular Taxonomy and Phylogenetic Analysis of Galerucine Leaf Beetles |
| Elizabeth Sugila Benjamin | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | Vidhyalakshmi Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Tamil Nadu; Arizona State University, Tempe | Ways to increase the usage of nontraditional English Language Learning activities in a rural classroom |
| Pratyusha Govindaraju | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | J-PAL South Asia, New Delhi; Harvard University, Cambridge | NA |
| Tutul Chakravarti | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | Independent Clinical Researcher, Kolkata; University of California San Diego, La Jolla | Developing a Disease Severity Scoring System for Patients with Primary Open Angle Glaucoma |