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 |
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MANSHU KAPOOR | SERB Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship | 2019 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi | |
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 |
Vishal Sharma | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | Govt. M. A. M. College, Jammu; National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden | Printing of Flexible Perovskite Solar Photovoltaic Devices |
Shikha Singh | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai; University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth | Role of Subsurface Bias in Coupled Models in Simulated Interannual Variability |
Arjun Varma R | SERB Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship | 2019 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay | |
Abid Hussain Banday | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | Islamia College of Science and Commerce (UGC-Autonomous), Srinagar; Auburn University | Design and Synthesis of Novel Adjuvants and Peptide-Based Cancer Vaccine Conjugates Based on Template Imprinting Approach |
Akshaya Chandrakant Nikumbh | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru; University of Washington, Seattle | Study of the Interactions between Convective Systems and Large-Scale Circulation during Extreme Precipitation Events |
Pallavi Surendra Shinde | SERB Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship | 2019 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras | |
Hamid Sana | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena | Inter-seismic Coupling on the Main Himalayan Thrust in the Kashmir Himalayas: Implications for the Seismic Hazard |
Navsal Kumar | SERB Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship | 2019 | National Institute of Technology (IIT) Hamirpur |