Training group concept

A graduate training group with altogether about 40 students is envisaged. From the first idea to establish the graduate school in summer 2010 to the preproposal now, we have brought together scientists from both sides. The workshop in December, 2010 at Göttingen was followed by the first student exchange within joint research projects in summer term 2011 and winter term 2011/12. The exchange program was supported by Göttingen international, the physics faculty of Göttingen, and Prof. S. Dattagupa as director of IISER Kolkata. Five students on Bachelor/ PhD level came for research projects for two-three month to Georg-August-University project partners. Vice versa from the Göttingen side, five students on Bachelor/ Master level are visiting IISER Kolkata at the moment for three month. This seeds the start of the joint training group idea.



German students, their supervisors and coworkers this Oct. 2011 at the IISER at a three month internship: Pradip Kumar Ghorai, Stefan Jagsch, Mirco Marahrens, Leonard Köhler, Richarj Mondal, René Kerkdyk, Chiranjib Mitra, Harkirat Singh, Bipul Pal, Anissa Zeghuzi, Partha Mitra.

A long standing tradition to collaborate with Indian research groups is already in existance tracing back to Prof. Herbert W. Roesky (now Emeritus) at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, whose activities are still a driving force here. As a part the year long celebration of 150th birth anniversary of Indian chemist Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray and celebration of International Year of Chemistry-2011 he visited Kolkata. Prof. Roesky performed fascinating chemistry experiments from his famous book ‘Chemical Curiosities’ in a public lecture causing curiosity and surprise among 1,500 school students, covered by several television channels in India.



Study program

Top level research
– Excellence, innovation, internationality
– Outstanding research projects, looking beyond the status quo
– Researchers with a track record that promises excellence

Structured promotion of excellent young researchers
– Specially qualified doctoral researchers, recruited internationally
– Opportunity to work on their theses in challenging, collaborative research environment
– Research-related qualification