• Master’s degree in Biological Sciences/ Mathematics/ Bioinformatics/Agricultural Sciences/ Veterinary Sciences or a Bachelor Degree in Medicine (MBBS) with 7.5 CGPA on a 10-point scale
• Candidates must have qualified CSIR-UGC-JRF/GATE examinations. Candidates with DST INSPIRE Ph.D. fellowship or any other fellowship through any national level exam

• Candidates must be holding a Master’s degree in Chemical Sciences witha 7.5 CGPA on a 10-point scale
• Candidates must have qualified CSIR-UGC-JRF/GATE examinations. Candidates with DST INSPIRE Ph.D. fellowship or any other fellowship through any national level exam

• Master’s degree in Physical Sciences/Material Science/ Engineering with 7.5 CGPA in 10-point scale or BE/BTech in the relevant areas
• Candidates must have qualified CSIR-UGC-JRF/GATE/ JEST (Physics).Candidates with DST INSPIRE Ph.D. fellowship or any other fellowship through any national level exam

• Master’s degree in relevant discipline with 6.5 CGPA on a 10-point scale (or first-class equivalent)

Or

• BS-MS/MSc students from any of the IISERs/IITS/IISc with CGPA 8 or above on a 10-point scale are exempted from national level test eligibility related criteria

• Bioinformatics
• Cell Biology
• Molecular Biology
• Structural Molecular Biology
• Mammalian Cell Division
• Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour
• Genetics
• Genomics
• Neuroscience

• Main Group Chemistry
• Macrocycles/Planar Antiaromatic and Extended Pi-Conjugated Systems
• Bioinspired Coordination Chemistry and Metal-free Small Molecule Activation
• Inorganic-Organic Hybrid, Metal Nanocluster and Catalysis
• Asymmetric Total Synthesis, Asymmetric Catalysis, Development of New Methodologies and Medicinal Chemistry
• Asymmetric Catalysis and Cross-Coupling Reactions
• Target-Oriented Organic Synthesis via (Asymmetric) Transition Metal Catalysis
• Insight-Driven Implementation of Radical Chemistry in Advanced Organic Chemistry
• Synthesis, Characterization and Application of (Chiral)Nanomaterial heterogeneous Catalysts in Sustainable Organic Synthesis
• Development of new synthetic methodologies driven by visible light photoredox catalysis, Metallo-photoredox catalysis in organic synthesis.
• Supramolecular Chemistry and DNA Nanotechnology
• Inorganic and Hybrid Materials Chemistry/Energy Storage-Batteries-Supercapacitors/Porous Materials-Gas Separation-Membranes
• Synthesis and operation of molecular switches and machines
• Synthesis of artificial foldamers and their applications.
• Designing out of equilibrium self-assembled system and their application
• Synthetic Methods for Organic Synthesis, Asymmetric Catalysis, and C–H Activation/ Functionalization
• Supramolecular Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, and Chemical Biology
• Photochemistry and Photophysics and Light-Matters Interaction at Nanoscale
• Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Physical Organic Chemistry, and Biophysical Chemistry
• Electrocatalysis

• Magnetic and Superconducting Materials
• Light Sheet Microscopy (LSM) or Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM)
• Nonlinear Dynamics: Cooperative Phenomena in Complex Networks
• 2-Dimensional Layered Nanostructures for Energy Applications
• Terahertz Spectroscopy of Condensed Matter Systems
• Foundations of quantum theory and applications in device-independent technology. Enhanced communication through quantum technology
• Beyond the Standard Model Phenomenology
• 2D Electronics & Neuromorphic Devices
• Organic, Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Semiconductors and Devices, Especially Solar Cells
• Condensed Matter Theory: High-Performance Thermoelectric Materials, Topological phases of matter, Machine Learning many body wavefunctions
• Infrared Plasmonics of Conducting Oxides
• Semiconductor qubits, Quantum-transport
• van der Waals materials for gas sensors
• String Theory, Supergravity