JNCASR (Bengaluru)
India /
Karnataka /
Yelahanka /
Bengaluru
World
/ India
/ Karnataka
/ Yelahanka
World / India / Karnataka / Bangalore Urban
Jawaharlal Nehru Center for
Advanced Scientific Research
We are a relatively young but already well-known multidisciplinary research institute. Our mandate is to pursue and promote world-class scientific research and training at the frontiers of science and engineering. The Centre was established in 1989 by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, to mark the birth centenary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. However, the bulk of our growth has been in the past decade
Our small size (26 faculty members, spread over several disciplines) is an advantage: not segregated in far-flung labs, our chemists, physicists, biologists and engineers rub shoulders throughout the day, whether it be in seminars, the library, the dining hall or the bus to-and-from work; this fosters a spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration which is one of the hallmarks of JNCASR. Amongst the many such on-campus collaborations that have sprung up over the years: a fluid dynamicist has joined forces with a statistical mechanician to look at flow in nanochannels, and with an experimental physicist to study the freezing of laser-induced metal droplets when they impinge on a substrate; another experimental physicist and a biologist are jointly developing a portable system that uses Raman markers to detect CD4 (used in HIV diagnostics); a theoretical molecular-dynamics study of the arrangement of water molecules around a protein has emerged from coffee-table discussions between a biochemist and physicist; and a many-body theorist is modelling the devices developed in the molecular electronics lab, there are many other such examples.
In addition to our young and dynamic faculty, other strengths of JNCASR include the presence of bright and energetic graduate students (we have an excellent faculty-to-student ratio of about 1:4), and state-of-the art experimental, computational and infrastructural facilities. Visitors to our campus are also invariably impressed by our physical environment: the architecturally innovative buildings blend inobtrusively into several acres of lush landscape, with only the buckyball dome rising above the treetops; while kingfishers and herons flit among the bamboo groves surrounding our local pond.
Researchers at the Centre are divided into six units: Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Engineering Mechanics, Evolutionary and Organismal Biology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Theoretical Sciences, Educational Technology and Geodynamics. We also have two off-campus units at the Indian Institute of Science: the Chemical Biology and Condensed Matter Theory Units. Though it is of course difficult to quantify scientific performance, by all numerical indications (numbers of publications, citations, grants, patents filed, etc.), science at the Centre is flourishing. In the last few years, the Centre's faculty members have published their research in some of the most prestigious scientific journals, including Nature, Nature Medicine, Science, Evolution, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and Physical Review Letters. The work of the Centre's faculty is also being recognized by various awards: of course, the list of honours and prizes received by CNR Rao, our Honorary President and Linus Pauling Research Professor, runs into many pages; however, we were all still very excited when he was recently awarded the Dan David Prize for Science in the Future Dimension, in 2005. Our younger faculty members too, are making their mark: for example, this year, Tapas K Kundu was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Biological sciences, Anuranjan Anand received the Outstanding Research Award from the Department of Atomic Energy, and Srikanth Sastry, GU Kulkarni and S Balasubramanian received the B M Birla Science Prize.
In addition to carrying out innovative scientific research, the Centre has a commitment towards fostering scientific education. We are now a "Deemed University", and over a hundred graduate students are currently working towards Master's and Ph.D. degrees at the Centre. Apart from training our own students through a wide spectrum of courses, we are also actively supporting a range of educational outreach activities: every year, our highly competitive Summer Research Fellowship programme hosts some of the very brightest undergraduates in the country; the Educational Technology Unit produces a range of teaching aids and educational material; we organize and teach short term courses at universities across India; and promising young chemists and biologists are trained intensively as part of our programmes of Project-Oriented-Chemical-Education (POCE) and Project-Oriented-Biological-Education (POBE).
Before Bangalore became IT-City, it was already renowned as Science-City, and our faculty and students benefit from interacting with scientists at the many research institutions in the greater Bangalore area.
The intellectual atmosphere at JNCASR is further livened by a regular stream of visitors from all over the world, who contribute to spirited scientific discussions at seminars, conferences and summer schools.
We believe we possess all the necessary ingredients to excel in scientific research and education, and look forward to growing further in the coming years.
Advanced Scientific Research
We are a relatively young but already well-known multidisciplinary research institute. Our mandate is to pursue and promote world-class scientific research and training at the frontiers of science and engineering. The Centre was established in 1989 by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, to mark the birth centenary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. However, the bulk of our growth has been in the past decade
Our small size (26 faculty members, spread over several disciplines) is an advantage: not segregated in far-flung labs, our chemists, physicists, biologists and engineers rub shoulders throughout the day, whether it be in seminars, the library, the dining hall or the bus to-and-from work; this fosters a spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration which is one of the hallmarks of JNCASR. Amongst the many such on-campus collaborations that have sprung up over the years: a fluid dynamicist has joined forces with a statistical mechanician to look at flow in nanochannels, and with an experimental physicist to study the freezing of laser-induced metal droplets when they impinge on a substrate; another experimental physicist and a biologist are jointly developing a portable system that uses Raman markers to detect CD4 (used in HIV diagnostics); a theoretical molecular-dynamics study of the arrangement of water molecules around a protein has emerged from coffee-table discussions between a biochemist and physicist; and a many-body theorist is modelling the devices developed in the molecular electronics lab, there are many other such examples.
In addition to our young and dynamic faculty, other strengths of JNCASR include the presence of bright and energetic graduate students (we have an excellent faculty-to-student ratio of about 1:4), and state-of-the art experimental, computational and infrastructural facilities. Visitors to our campus are also invariably impressed by our physical environment: the architecturally innovative buildings blend inobtrusively into several acres of lush landscape, with only the buckyball dome rising above the treetops; while kingfishers and herons flit among the bamboo groves surrounding our local pond.
Researchers at the Centre are divided into six units: Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Engineering Mechanics, Evolutionary and Organismal Biology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Theoretical Sciences, Educational Technology and Geodynamics. We also have two off-campus units at the Indian Institute of Science: the Chemical Biology and Condensed Matter Theory Units. Though it is of course difficult to quantify scientific performance, by all numerical indications (numbers of publications, citations, grants, patents filed, etc.), science at the Centre is flourishing. In the last few years, the Centre's faculty members have published their research in some of the most prestigious scientific journals, including Nature, Nature Medicine, Science, Evolution, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and Physical Review Letters. The work of the Centre's faculty is also being recognized by various awards: of course, the list of honours and prizes received by CNR Rao, our Honorary President and Linus Pauling Research Professor, runs into many pages; however, we were all still very excited when he was recently awarded the Dan David Prize for Science in the Future Dimension, in 2005. Our younger faculty members too, are making their mark: for example, this year, Tapas K Kundu was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Biological sciences, Anuranjan Anand received the Outstanding Research Award from the Department of Atomic Energy, and Srikanth Sastry, GU Kulkarni and S Balasubramanian received the B M Birla Science Prize.
In addition to carrying out innovative scientific research, the Centre has a commitment towards fostering scientific education. We are now a "Deemed University", and over a hundred graduate students are currently working towards Master's and Ph.D. degrees at the Centre. Apart from training our own students through a wide spectrum of courses, we are also actively supporting a range of educational outreach activities: every year, our highly competitive Summer Research Fellowship programme hosts some of the very brightest undergraduates in the country; the Educational Technology Unit produces a range of teaching aids and educational material; we organize and teach short term courses at universities across India; and promising young chemists and biologists are trained intensively as part of our programmes of Project-Oriented-Chemical-Education (POCE) and Project-Oriented-Biological-Education (POBE).
Before Bangalore became IT-City, it was already renowned as Science-City, and our faculty and students benefit from interacting with scientists at the many research institutions in the greater Bangalore area.
The intellectual atmosphere at JNCASR is further livened by a regular stream of visitors from all over the world, who contribute to spirited scientific discussions at seminars, conferences and summer schools.
We believe we possess all the necessary ingredients to excel in scientific research and education, and look forward to growing further in the coming years.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 13°4'7"N 77°36'43"E
- JNC Student's Residence and Staff Quarters 0.3 km
- 5.5 acres 1 km
- 6 acres 1.2 km
- regency Pinnacle heights 1.6 km
- Regency Pinnacle Heights 1.6 km
- Manyata Embassy Business Park / Manyata Tech Park 1.7 km
- GOKALDAS EXPORTS 1.8 km
- CTS MBP 2.3 km
- G4 Aspen Bulding 2.4 km
- CTS MEBP - F3 2.4 km
- Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research 0.2 km
- Rachenahalli Lake 0.7 km
- Royal Enclave 0.9 km
- Godrej Park Retreat Sarjapur 1.2 km
- Rachenahalli 1.3 km
- MCECHS Layout 1st Phase 1.5 km
- Manyata Residency 2 km
- Coffee Board Layout 2.1 km
- Thanisandra 2.9 km
- Yelahanka 4.3 km
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