Centre of Astronomy

Indian Institute of Technology Indore

The interdisciplinary Centre of Astronomy is a unique department among
all IITs that offers an dedicated and focused platform to pursue research
in Astronomy.
Research Areas
l Observational Cosmology
l Radio Astronomy
PhD positions available
l Astronomical Istrumentation
Applications are invited from highly motivated and research
l Galaxy Clusters
oriented students for admission to the PhD program in the
l Atmospheric corruptions and
Centre of Astronomy.
study of Ionosphere
l CMB and mapping of SZE
Eligibility
l Astrophysical Jets
l  Minimum first class Master degree in the relevant science
l Computational Astrophysics
discipline with valid UGC/CSIR-JRF or equivalent fellowship or
l Plasma physics; shocks, MHD
GATE qualification
and radiative transfer
l  Minimum first class Master degree in the relevant discipline of
l Compact objects; X-ray binaries
Engineering/Technology
and Magnetars
l  Minimum first class Bachelor degree in the relevant Engineering/
l Accretion physics
Technology discipline with a valid GATE score
l  BTech from an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) with a
Facilities and activities minimum CPI of 8.0
l Ionosphere Monitoring Facility
(ISRO project) How to apply
l L-band observing facility under URL: http://academic.iiti.ac.in/phdadvt.php
construction (SERB project)
l Founder member of the Square
For further queries regarding this advertisement and the
Kilometer Array (SKA) - India department contact: Abhirup Datta, email:
consortium hodastronomy@iiti.ac.in
l 180 lakhs of external funding

l International MOUs and

Internship positions are available for motivated and
collaborations with SKA, UW-
research minded students to work on the various
Madison, University of Colorado-
Boulder, University of Turin, MPIA, ongoing research projects in the department
Sabanci University and many
others

Ø  We are also inviting applications from prospective

Ramanujan and DST INSPIRE Faculty fellows
Masters program in Astronomy to start in 2018