Endowed Visiting Chair

ADITYA BIRLA CHAIR

This Chair was instituted in 2001 with an endowment by the Indian Aluminium Company-Kolkata.  The Chair would be offered to an eminent Scientist/Researcher/Technologist of international recognition/reputation from within the country or abroad.  The researcher occupying this chair is expected to interact with Aluminium industries in India to promote Industry-Institute interaction and promote relevant research at the Institute relating to Aluminium.

ALUMNI CHAIR

This Visiting Chair, instituted in 2001, through an endowment from the IISc Alumni association is open to the Alumni of the Institute who are working in reputed institutions in India and abroad and is for a  duration of up to three months.

BRAHM PRAKASH CHAIR

Prof. Brahm Prakash Chair  Was instituted during 1989 with an endowment created in the memory of late Prof. Brahm Prakash, who served as the Chair of the Department of Metallurgy at the Institute and also made major contributions to India’s atomic energy and space programmes.

DUPONT CHAIR

This chair was instituted during 2003 with an endowment given by M/s Du Pont de Nemours and Company, USA, for attracting researchers in the areas of Materials, Life Sciences & Polymers  The Chair would be offered to an eminent Researcher from within the country or abroad.

G N RAMACHANDRAN CHAIR

Prof. G N Ramachandran Chair, endowed by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, was established during 2000.  The Chair would be offered to a distinguished scientist for a period up to one year.

Prof. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Lab of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK, 2006, 2008-09
Prof.Tom Blundell, University of Cambridge, UK, 2008

SATISH DHAWAN CHAIR

This Chair was stablished in 1996 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in the field of Engineering Sciences, having relevance to Space Science & Technology.

SUNDARARAJAN CHAIR

This Chair, instituted in 1998,   is in two categories, the first one is offered for a duration of of approximately one year and the second one is offered for a duration of a  few weeks to a few months.

PRATT & WHITNEY CHAIR in Gas Turbine Engineering:

This chair was instituted by M/s. United Technologies Corporation, Pratt & Whitney Division in July 2008 with an endowment in the Department of Aerospace Engineering to strengthen the Gas Turbine Research initiative.  Currently, this is offered for period of one to two months.

DST-IISc CENTENARY CHAIR PROFESSORSHIP

This Professorship will be valid for two years from the date of the first visit by the visiting Professor ( the visitor is expected to spend normally a minimum period of two months).  The IISc-DST Centenary Chair Professor will interact with the faculty and students of the Institute,  inspire enhanced levels of research collaboration and streamline growth of new areas of research at the Institute. Shorter visits of about one month will be decided on mutually agreed terms between the Institute and thevisitor.

SMT. RUKMINI – SHRI GOPALAKRISHNACHAR DISTINGUISHED CHAIR PROFESSORSHIP

Smt. Rukmini – Gopalakrishnachar Chair was instituted during 2007 by  an alumnus in the Division of Electrical Sciences.  This chair is  offered to celebrated researchers in Computer Science and related areas to visit IISc for research interactions and collaborations for several weeks to months.

PRATIKSHA VISITING CHAIRS IN BRAIN AND COMPUTATION

Three endowed chairs have been instituted by the Pratiksha Trust founded by Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan and Mrs. Sudha Gopalakrishnan in 2015. This generous endowment supports creation of three endowed chairs offered to distinguished scientists in the areas of electrical, electronics, and computer sciences having broad relevance for brain research, learning, data science, and neuromorphic computing. The chair professors visit IISc for at least a month every year up to five years, to facilitate high impact collaboration leading to capacity building and ecosystem creation in the above areas.

INFOSYS VISITING CHAIR

The Infosys Foundation has endowed Visiting Professorships in Mathematics and Physics at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). The purpose of these Professorships is to bring distinguished scientists in the broad areas of Physical and Mathematical Sciences to the IISc campus for collaborative research interactions. Visiting Professors are expected to spend a total of one year at IISc; visits can be spread out over a period of 4 years. The remuneration package for these Visiting Professorships is internationally competitive. If you are interested in this Professorship, please contact a faculty member at IISc who will then take the process forward. If you would like to nominate a distinguished Physicist or Mathematician for this Professorship, please send a nomination to the Chairman, Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science by e-mail (dean.phy@iisc.ac.in).

SMT SUDHA MURTHY DISTINGUISHED VISITING CHAIR

K VAIDYANATHAN DISTINGUISHED VISITING CHAIR

PROF. K P ABRAHAM VISITING CHAIR

The Prof. K P Abraham Visiting Chair Professorship will enable distinguished scientists to spend significant periods of time at IISc.

Professor Kadavil Poulose Abraham (1920-2011) served the department of Metallurgy for  21 years, including the period 1972-1977 when he was the fourth Head of the Department. As a teacher, Professor Abraham inspired many generations of students through his lectures on thermodynamics and extractive metallurgy. His teaching covered both iron & steel and nonferrous metals. He helped establish laboratories in Process Metallurgy, some of which were pioneering in the Indian scene.  When that generation of alumni reflects on the solidity of the fundamentals with which they left IISc, it is in large part a testimony to the academic excellence that Professor Abraham nurtured. His students went on to become leading metallurgists and materials scientists, both in academic institutions as well as in industry, in India and abroad. In launching this appeal, the Institute and the department, where he spent the major part of his working life, would like to pay tribute to his accomplishments in laying the foundations for what has now become a vibrant centre for teaching and research in the field of materials in India.