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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shital Bhaskar Kale | SERB Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship | 2019 | D. Y. Patil Education Society, Kolhapur | |
| 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 |
| Abhijit Mitra | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), New Delhi; University of California, Davis | Designing a High Capacity Elastic Optical Network for Large Geographies (U.S. and India) to Sustain Long-Term Growth in Telecom Broadband Services |
| Venkatesan Ramasamy | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai; University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, | On Recent Advancements in Ocean Observational Techniques and Data Collection to Understand the Air-Sea Interaction in the Bay of Bengal for Monsoons |
| Pratyusha Govindaraju | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | J-PAL South Asia, New Delhi; Harvard University, Cambridge | NA |
| Tulika Kakati | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | Tezpur University; University of California, Irvine | Identification of Disease Biomarkers by Analyzing Biological Data Using Machine Learning Techniques |
| Santosh Ranjan Mohanty | Fulbright Fellow | 2019 | ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil Science (ICAR-IISS), Bhopal; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley | Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Improvement of Crop Production by Methane-Driven Biological Functions in Agricultural Soil Ecosystems |
| Sathiskumar M | SERB Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship | 2019 | Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli | |
| 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 |
| Abhishek Gupta | SERB Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship | 2019 | Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technolgy (MNNIT) Allahabad |