Call for National Post Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF) Proposals-SERB-India

About:

The SERB-National Post Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF) proposals are invited from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) India, to find the motivated young researchers and provide them with support for doing research in frontier areas of science and engineering.

The fellows will work under a mentor, and it is hoped that this training will provide them with a platform to develop as an independent researcher.

Eligibility:

• The applicant should be an Indian citizen.
• The applicant must have obtained a PhD/M.D/M.S degree from a recognized University. Those who have submitted their PhD/M.D/M.S thesis and are awaiting award of the degree are also eligible to apply.
• However, such candidates, if selected, will be offered lower fellowship amount till they qualify the eligible degree.
• The upper age limit for the fellowship is 35 years at the time of the submission of application, age will be calculated by taking the date of closure of the respective call.
• Age relaxation of 5 (five) years will be given to candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC/Physically Challenged & Women candidates.
• National Post Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF) can be availed only once by a candidate in his/her career.
• The mentor must hold a regular academic/research position in a recognized institution in India. Should hold PhD degree in Science or Engineering.
• A mentor shall not have more than two SERB NPDF fellows at any given time.
• Applicants of NPDF, ECRA and EMR can submit their proposal only once in a calendar year in any of these schemes.

Fellowship

The fellowship is purely a temporary assignment, and is tenable for a period of 2 years.

• Fellowship: Rs. 55,000/- per month (consolidated) and Rs. 35,000/ p.m for candidates who have submitted the thesis but degree not awarded.
• Research Grant: Rs. 2,00,000/- per annum
• Overheads: Rs. 1,00,000/- per annum

Selection Process

• The selection process will be based on the recommendations of an Expert Committee that will be constituted by the Board. If required, the applicants may be called for personal interview.

How to Apply

• Online Application Registration Link->  click here to register
• Once you logged in, you required to fill all the mandatory fields in the Profile Detail section under User Profile. which includes Bio-data, Photo, Institute Address etc.
• Details including Project Title (max 500 characters), Project summary (max 3000 characters), Keywords (max 6), Objectives of the project (max 1500 characters), Expected output and outcome of the proposal (max 1500 characters) should be provided online at the time of submission of the application.
• Work Methodology and Research plan have to be uploaded in a single PDF file, not more than 3 pages (max 10 MB).

Important Dates

Last Date to Apply: May 30 2019

More Details: SERB INDIA