TWAS-SN Bose Postgraduate Fellowship Programme 2025/2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: September 22, 2025

Applications are open for the TWAS-SN Bose Postgraduate Fellowship Programme 2025/2026. TWAS and the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in Kolkata, India, supply fellowships to younger overseas scientists from growing international locations who want to pursue analysis in direction of a PhD in bodily sciences.

TWAS-SN Bose Postgraduate Fellowships are tenable on the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in Kolkata, India for research main in direction of a PhD diploma in one of many fields of pure sciences and life sciences for 4 years with the potential of a one-yr extension.

Funding

• S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences will present a month-to-month stipend to cowl dwelling prices and meals. The month-to-month stipend is not going to be convertible into overseas foreign money. Free on-campus lodging shall be supplied. The month-to-month stipend doesn’t cowl complete medical health insurance.  The Centre does nonetheless deduct a small contribution in direction of a Contributory Medical Scheme. The advantages are partial reimbursement of physician’s charges, drugs prices, if any, and just for prices incurred at Kolkata. The reimbursement construction is at par with the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) of the Government of India.
• The S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences doesn’t present complete well being or medical insurance coverage to its workers or college students. All SN Bose-TWAS fellows will need to have their very own “Medical Insurance” earlier than becoming a member of the programme to cowl medical emergencies.

Eligibility

Candidates for these fellowships should meet the next standards:

• be a most age of 35 years on 31 December of the application yr;
• be nationals of a growing nation (apart from India);
• should not maintain any visa for momentary or everlasting residency in India or any developed nation;
• maintain a Masters Degree in Physics, Chemistry, Biology or Mathematics. S/he will need to have accomplished at the least a complete 5 years of undergraduate and postgraduate research in a acknowledged college or institute.
• be accepted by a division of the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences. Prospective candidates are suggested to go to the Centre’s web site and search to discover a potential supervisor below whom they want to pursue their analysis and speak to them.
• Requests for acceptance have to be directed to the Dean (Academic Programme), S. N. Bose National Centre for Sciences by e-mail ([email protected]). In contacting the Dean (Academic Programme), candidates should fill out the “SNB FORM” and request for an Acceptance Letter with copy of their CV.
• present proof of proficiency in English, if medium of training was not English;
• present proof that s/he’ll return to her/his home nation on completion of the fellowship;
• not take up different assignments throughout the interval of her/his fellowship;
• be financially answerable for any accompanying relations.

Application

• Applicants should submit an Acceptance Letter from a division of the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences when making use of, or by the deadline on the newest. Without preliminary acceptance the application is not going to be thought-about for choice.
• Applications for the TWAS-SN Bose Postgraduate Fellowship Programme can ONLY be submitted by way of the net portal.
• Be suggested that candidates could apply for just one programme per calendar yr within the TWAS and OWSD portfolio. Applicants is not going to be eligible to go to one other establishment in that yr below the TWAS Visiting Professor programmes. One exception: The head of an establishment who invites an exterior scholar to share his/her experience below the TWAS Visiting Professor programmes should still apply for one more programme.

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