Fellowship in collaboration with TIFR for promoting cross border interactions between researchers

About Us

SFPI fellowship is a collaboration with Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), a National Centre of the Government of India. It is part of a TIFR general purpose Endowment Fund to promote flexible funding of new initiatives at the Institute in research activities at the forefront of Science, Technology and Mathematics.

We launched this initiative in 2000. The key goal of this program is to encourage education with a particular emphasis on research in sciences and the public dissemination of the excitement in science and technology. It seeks to encourage the young population to take up careers in science and technology, and foster scientific interactions between the distinguished visitors, their institutions and researchers in India.

This is done in two ways

"Researchers in India need more opportunities to interact and exchange ideas with their counterparts internationally. This fellowship with a reputed academic institution like TIFR will help foster knowledge exchange and intellectual growth."

- Founders Vision

Student Fellowships

Through this Fellowship many research students selected by TIFR travel and meet with their counterparts in other labs outside India and expand their scientific network and collaboration. They have opportunities to present their papers in international forums and collaborate with teams abroad on problems of common interest.

Eminent Visitor Program

We have brought in very eminent scientists from across the world to India to deliver lectures at different academic venues. The key goal of this program is public dissemination of the excitement in science and technology, to encourage the young population to take up careers in science and technology, and foster scientific interactions between the distinguished visitors, their institutions and researchers in India.

Name	Institute/Department
Nisha Singhal	CAM, Bangalore
Ankita Ghosh	NCRS, TIFR
Rashi Jain	NCRA, Pune
Sukanya Raman	NCBS, Bangalore
Aditya Singh Rajput	ICTS, Bangalore
Himanshu Tyagi	DAA, TIFR
Ramananda Santra	NCRA, Pune
Manikandan M	DCS, TIFR. Mumbai
Koshvendra Singh	DAA, TIFR, Mumbai
Hadiya Shamim	NCBS, Bangalore
Yukta Khurana	DAA
Achintya Srivastava	DBS, TIFR, Mumbai
Achintya Srivastava	DBS, TIFR
Nivedhya Venas	NCBS, Bangalore
Kiran Bajar	DNAP, TIFR, Mumbai
Rahul Verma	DCMP-MS, TIFR, Mumbai
Ritwik Mukherjee	ICTS, Bangalore
Subhra Ranjita Pattanayak	TIFR-H, Hyderabad
Subhajit Dandapat	DAA
Rishabh Sharma	TIFR-H, Hyderabad
Souvik Kundu	DTP, TIFR, Mumbai
Subhajit Dandapat	DAA, TIFR, Mumbai
Ashutosh Shankar	STCS, TIFR, Mumbai
Simran Arora	DCS, TIFR, Mumbai
Souvik Jena	ICTS, Bangalore
Anupama Souri Das	HBCSE
Debshankar Saha Roy	Chemical Sciences
Bibek Samal	DCS
Aparajit Chandrasekaran	DNAP, TIFR, Mumbai
Dibya Sankar Chattopadhyay	DTP, TIFR, Mumbai
Abdul Wasim	TIFr-H, Hyderabad
Anzal KS	NCBS, Bangalore
Darshana Kapri	Biological Sciences
Shubhada Agarwal	School of Technology and Computer Science
Varun Suresh	Biological Sciences
Shubhada Agarwal	School of Technology and Computer Science
Biswajit Das	DNAP
Rahul Tiwary	DHEP
Arghya Chakraborty	STCS, TIFR, Mumbai
Aman Kumar	DTP
Sunil Jaiswal	DNAP
Meena Kharatmal	HBCSE, Mumbai
Dr. Krishnakumar Ravindran (postdoc)	DHEP, TIFR, Mumbai

Name	Awards
Roger Blandford Pehong and Adele Chen Director, Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, USA Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Blandford	Humboldt Prize (2011) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2013)
C. Kumar N. Patel Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Kumar_N._Patel	IEEE Medal of Honor (1989)
Haïm Brezis Dept. of Mathematics, Rutgers, The State University, USA Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha%C3%AFm_Brezis	Ampère Prize (1985)
Léon Sanche Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiobiology,University of Sherbrooke, Canada	Marie Curie Fellowship
Alain Connes College de France, France Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Connes Website : alainconnes.org	Ampère Prize (1980) Fields Medal (1982) CNRS Gold medal (2004)
Mildred Dresselhaus Dept. of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Dresselhaus	National Medal of Science (1990) IEEE Founders Medal (2004) Enrico Fermi Award (2012) Kavli Prize in Nanoscience (2012) Presidential Medal of Freedom (2014)
Frank Wilczek Dept. of Physics, Massachuseetts Inst. of Technology, USA Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wilczek Website: frankawilczek.com	Nobel Prize in Physics (2004) King Faisal Prize (2005) Templeton Prize (2022)
Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard Aarhus University, Denmark Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rgen_Christensen-Dalsgaard Website: www.phys.au.dk/~jcd/	Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2022) Crafoord Prize in Astronomy (2024)
Gottfried H. Döhler University of Erlangen, Germany	Walter Schottky Prize (1984)
Horst Ludwig Störmer Columbia University Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Ludwig_St%C3%B6rmer	Nobel Prize in Physics (1998) The Benjamin Franklin Medal (1998)
Kurt Wüthrich ETH Zürich Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_W%C3%Bcthrich Website: www.scripps.edu/wuthrich	Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2002) Kyoto Prize (1998)
Malvin Ruderman Columbia University Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvin_Ruderman	Pregel Medal of the New York Academy of Sciences (1996)
Jared Diamond The University of California, Los Angeles Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Diamond	MacArthur Fellowship (1985) Pulitzer Prize (1998) National Medal of Science (1999) Wolf Prize in Agriculture (2013)
Evelyn Fox Keller Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Fox_Keller	MacArthur Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowship Dan David Prize (2018)
Jeremiah P. Ostriker University of Cambridge Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_P._Ostriker	National Medal of Science (2000) Astronomical Society (2004) James Craig Watson Medal (2012)
David Jonathan Gross University of California, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gross Website: www.kitp.ucsb.edu/gross	Dirac Medal (1988) Harvey Prize (2000) Nobel Prize in Physics (2004)
Sunil K. Sinha University of California	Ernest O. Lawrence Award of the Department of Energy Arthur H. Compton Prize of the Advanced Photon Source
Gerard ‘t Hooft Utrecht University Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_%27t_Hooft	Heineman Prize (1979) Wolf Prize (1981) Nobel Prize in Physics (1999) Breakthrough Prize (2025)
Eli Yablonovitch Harvard University Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Yablonovitch	Harvey Prize (2012) Isaac Newton Medal (2015) IEEE Edison Medal (2018)
Barrantes, Francisco José Faculty Medical Sciences, UCA-CONICET	G. Weber Award, Biophys. Soc. USA (2021 )
Victor Kac Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kac	Guggenheim Fellowship (1986) Wigner Medal (1996) Steele Prize (2015)
Baldomero Olivera University of Utah Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldomero_Olivera	Harvard Foundation Scientist of the Year (2007) Outstanding Alumni Award of Caltech Redi Award from the International Society for Toxinology
Arnold Wolfendale University of Manchester, Durham University Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Wolfendale	Marian Smoluchowski Medal (1992) Homi Bhabha Medal and Prize (2011)
Professor Sabyasachi (Shobo) Bhatttacharya Tata Institue of Fundamnetal Research (TIFR)	Sarojini Damodaran Internbational Fellowship (2001-02)
William Arthur Coles University of California Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Arthur_Coles	Guggenheim Fellowship in (1976-77) Sarojini Damodaran International Fellowship (2001)
Louis Nirenberg New York University Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Nirenberg	Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (1994) National Medal of Science (1995) Chern Medal (2010) Abel Prize (2015)
Amir Pnueli Tel Aviv University, Weizmann Institute Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Pnueli	Turing Award (1996) Israel Prize
Stephen Hawking University of Cambridge Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking Website: hawking.org.uk	Copley Medal (2006) Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009) Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012)
Shrinivas Kulkarni California Institute of Technology Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinivas_Kulkarni	Dan David Prize (2017) Shaw Prize (2024)
Abraham Nitzan University of Pennsylvania Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Nitzan Website: atto.tau.ac.il/~nitzan	Israel Prize in chemistry (2010) The EMET Prize in chemistry (2012)
Dame Janet Maureen Thornton University of Oxford, University College London Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Thornton Website: www.ebi.ac.uk/research/thornton	ISCB Senior Scientist Award (2005) Suffrage Science award (2011)
Nathan Seiberg Institute for Advanced Study Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Seiberg	Heineman Prize (1998) Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012) Dirac Medal (2016)