India in Global Science

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

Total number of Record(s): 510
Awardee Fellowship Name Year Affiliation Specialisation
Nishant Singh Fulbright Fellow 2021 Harappa Education, New Delhi; Harvard University, Cambridge NA
Stephen Rajan Samuel Fulbright Fellow 2021 Kasturba Medical College (KMC), Mangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Mangaluru; University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester “An Interval Training Exercise Program to Improve Health Behavior and Oncological Outcomes in Cancer Survivors Post Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy”
Seema Ravandale Fulbright Fellow 2021 People’s Science Institute, Dehradun; University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst People’s Science Institute, Dehradun; University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst
Priyabrata Pradhan Fulbright Fellow 2021 Independent scholar, Delhi; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge “Research and Co-Design of an Inclusive Waste-to-Energy Process”
Niket Satish Kaisare Fulbright Fellow 2021 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities A Combined Catalyst-and-Reactor Design Framework for Catalytic Reduction of CO2
Suchismita Mitra Fulbright Fellow 2021 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai; National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden Modeling, Fabrication, and Characterization of Advanced Structures of Tunnel Oxide Passivation Contact (TOPCON) Solar Cells
Amol Dayanand Sawant Fulbright Fellow 2021 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur; Lemont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York “Oceanic and Continental Subduction-Generated Fluids in the Tso Morari Ultrahigh Pressure Metamorphic Terrane, Himalaya: Implications for Carbon and Other Volatiles-Cycling of the Earth”
Ekta Singla Fulbright Fellow 2021 Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai; TBC, At-Large Multimodal Figuration and Learning in Multilingual Children
Subhankar Mishra Fulbright Fellow 2021 National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, Odisha; University of Florida, Gainesville Secure, Private, and Fair Machine Learning for Insider Threat Detection
Ritajit Majumdar Fulbright Fellow 2021 Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata; International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) - Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights Characterization and mitigation of noise in near-term quantum algorithms

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