Shiv Nadar
University
School
of Natural Sciences
Opportunities for Ph.D. Studentship in Chemistry, Life
Sciences, Mathematics & Physics
Ref: PhD-SNS-2014
Admission Open for PhD in Natural Sciences
The Departments of Chemistry, Life Sciences,
Mathematics and Physics in the School of Natural Sciences at Shiv Nadar
University invite applications for admission in the Ph.D. programs starting July
2014.
Broad
Research Areas Available:
Department of Chemistry
• Chemical biology
• Cheminformatics
• Chemistry of nanomaterials
• Computational quantum chemistry
• Green chemistry
• Medicinal chemistry
• Organometallic and Environmental Chemistry
• Polymer chemistry
• Structural Chemistry and Crystallography
• Supramolecular Chemistry
• Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Department of Life Sciences
• Virology
• Infectious diseases (malaria)
• Industrial Biotechnology
• Role of Novel Regulators of Vascular Dysfunction
• Bioinformatics
• Cell signaling in cancer biology
• Bacterial morphogenesis and bacterial genomics
• Systems and Synthetic Biology
Department of Mathematics
• Harmonic Analysis and its connections with Number
Theory, Combinatorics and Probability
• Differential Geometry, specifically Symplectic
and Complex Geometry
• Game Theory: Evolution of Cooperation, Finite
Automata
• Graph Theory and its applications in Ecology and
Archaeology
• Number Theory, both Algebraic and Analytic
• Computational Mechanics – computer-based modeling
of phenomena with PDEs and the development of new algorithms
• Mathematical Economics
• Category Theory and Quantum Groups
[Apart from direct admission into Ph.D. as
described in this advertisement, we also offer a Master’s program which is
integrated with the Ph.D. Students admitted to the MS in Mathematics have a
reduced course-load if they later take admission to our Ph.D. program.]
Department of Physics
• Condensed Matter Physics
o Computational Materials Physics
o Statistical Mechanics and Computational Physics
o Low Dimensional Functional Materials
o Nano-carbon and Nano-Tribology
o Dielectric Materials
o Semiconductor Materials and Devices
o Surface and Nano Science
o Nano Electronics
o Soft Matter Physics
• Particle Physics
o Theoretical Particle Physics
o Experimental High Energy Physics
• Atmospheric and Environmental Physics
More detailed descriptions of research interests of
our faculty can be found at http://www.snu.edu.in/naturalsciences/natural_sciences_overview.aspx.
Many of our research projects are
interdisciplinary in nature, involving collaborations across multiple
departments in the School of Natural Sciences, as well as other schools and
research centers of the university. Three dedicated research centers – Big Data
Analytics Center, Center for Informatics, and Institute for Innovations &
Inventions with Mathematics & IT – provide additional support for
interdisciplinary research.
Eligibility:
A candidate should have (or expect to have by August 2014) a Masters degree in
the appropriate science discipline, with a minimum of 60% marks or an
equivalent grade point.
Candidates who have qualified for CSIR-UGC NET-JRF,
DBT-JRF, GATE-JRF, JEST, ICMR-JRF, or NBHM Fellowship are preferred.
Short-listed candidates will be required to demonstrate their knowledge through
an on-site written test and interview. Selections will be based on past
academic performance, written examination and/or interview.
Financial
Assistance: All candidates admitted to the Ph.D. program are eligible for
teaching/ research assistantships/fellowships of Rs. 35,000 per month along
with tuition fee waivers. In addition, SNU offers hostel fee waivers to all
Ph.D. students.
Application
Process: All interested candidates should apply in the prescribed form,
available at http://snu.edu.in/pdf/SoNS_PhD_ApplicationForm_2014.pdf.
The duly filled form along with supporting
documents, and a non-refundable demand draft of Rs.1,000/- (in favor of “Shiv
Nadar University” payable at Delhi) should be sent by Speed Post to:
Ms. Rupa Goswami
EA to the Director
School of Natural Sciences
Shiv Nadar University
Post Office Shiv Nadar University
Greater Noida
Gautam Buddha Nagar, UP 201 314, India.
Email: rupa.goswami@snu.edu.in
Telephone: +91 120 266 3841
Applications should reach the above office by 24 May 2014.
About SNU
Shiv Nadar University (http://snu.edu.in/)
is a multi-disciplinary research
university, established by the Shiv Nadar Foundation in 2011 through an act of
the State of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is built on a spacious 256 acres
fully-residential campus, near Dadri, U.P., at the outskirts of Delhi. The University
is driven by its distinguished faculty in natural sciences, humanities and
social sciences, engineering, management & entrepreneurship, communication,
education, art and design. The Ph.D. program at SNU is full-time and completely
residential.
Research
Infrastructure
Laboratories in the School of Natural Sciences
(SNS) are equipped with basic research facilities including fume hoods fitted
with Schlenk lines, LCMS-qToF, UV-visible spectrophotometers, Infrared
spectrophotometers, ball-milling, I-V measurement system, thermal evaporator,
glove box, microwave furnace, polarization loop-tracer, bio-safety cabinets
(for mammalian, bacterial and plasmodium cultures), CO2 Incubators, shaker
incubators, flow cytometry, inverted microscope, plate reader, cell counter,
fluorescent microscope, electroporator, PCR, RT-PCR, etc. Advanced analytical
instrumentation such as 400 MHz NMR, HPLC, CHN analyzer, DSC, TGA, DLS, rheometer,
single crystal and powder XRD, SEM, AFM, Raman spectrometer, photoluminescence,
fluorimeter, surface profilometer, MEMS, pulsed electron deposition, magnetron
sputtering, vacuum annealing oven, split tube, and cylindrical furnaces are in
the process of being acquired.
Computational facilities at SNS include a high
performance IBM cluster (“Magus”) consisting of 32 compute nodes (plus two
nodes with GPU processors) delivering 332.8 Giga flops with each node and a
theoretical peak performance of 10.649 TF from over all compute nodes.
Additionally, there are several stand-alone Linux workstations that are being
used for teaching and research purpose.
Several software for bioinformatics and
cheminformatics, molecular modeling, molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, and
statistic learning are also available.
Our library, housed in a modern 5-storey building,
provides online access, from anywhere in the campus, to thousands of electronic
journals and databases including APS, AIP, ACS, RSC, AMS, SIAM, Springer,
Elsevier, Wiley and Nature journals, in addition to various books and e-books.
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