Job Title: PhD Admissions 2025–26: Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences (MCNS), MAHE
Job Category(s) : PhD
Job Description : Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences (MCNS), MAHE has announced a few positions for admission to the Institute’s PhD programme for the academic year 2025–26. Each successful candidate will be offered the Dr TMA Pai Fellowship.

Interested students are encouraged to carefully go through the flyer and the associated links for detailed information regarding eligibility, application procedure, and important dates.

This year, two PhD positions are available in Astronomy:

1. Study of astronomical source classes and their possible evolution using observations from the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope onboard the AstroSat observatory;
-- Dr Debbijoy Bhattacharya
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5123-972X

2. Elucidating magnetised tenuous plasma in the cosmic web;
-- Dr Surajit Paul https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4046-6959)

Application deadline : 2026-01-20
Institutional URL with the announcement : https://www.manipal.edu/mcns-manipal/department-faculty/department-list/manipal-centre-for-natural-sciences.html
Announcement Brochure/Poster/Notification : MCNSPhD_25_batch-2_flyer.pdf
Name of the Contact Person : Dr Surajit Paul
Affiliation of the Contact Person : Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Email of the Contact Person : surajit.paul@manipal.edu
Other Remarks : N/A