Centres of Excellence
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, established Center for Research on Environment and Sustainable Technologies (CREST) at IISER Bhopal as a Centre of Excellence (CoE) with major objective of building a structure that eventually helps in understanding the interactions between air, water, and earth mega systems on several scales ranging from local to global. The CoE has a mission to carry on multidisciplinary research and training in clean environment (air, water, and land), and sustainable development as thrust areas. The chief motivation for the establishment of CREST was to work on thematic areas including climate change studies, air quality management, atmospheric dynamics, monitoring and management of earth resources through satellite imagery, synthesizing environmentally benign analytical tools/molecular receptors for characterization of environmental pollutants, and applying bioremediation and other techniques of waste management and sustainable development. The research and teaching activities of CREST will encompass both theoretical and experimental approaches