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National Institute of Technology (NIT) Meghalaya Post-Doctoral Fellows

National Institute of Technology (NIT) Meghalaya Post-Doctoral Fellows

About National Institute of Technology (NIT) Meghalaya Post-Doctoral Fellows

National Institute of Technology (NIT) Meghalaya invites applications to admit young researchers as Institute Post-doctoral Fellows (IPDFs) and Sponsored Post-doctoral Fellows (SPDFs) under Post-doctoral scheme. The Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programme aims to identify and motivate young researchers and provide them support for research in frontier areas of science and engineering. Candidates who have applied against advertisement no NITMGH/Post-doc-Admission/2020-21/470, dated 23/03/2020 need to re-apply again however they are not required to pay any application fees, they will need to upload/submit the fee receipt which they have paid against the aforementioned advertisement as proof of payment.

Post-doctoral Fellowship Scheme:

The Institute shall admit Post-doctoral fellows under two following categories:

* “Institute Post-doctoral Fellows (IPDF)” means a Post-doctoral Fellow, who is admitted to Postdoctoral Programme of NIT Meghalaya through the procedures adopted by Institute and avails Fellowship from the Institute fund.

* “Sponsored Post-doctoral Fellow(SPDF)”means a Post-doctoral Fellow, who is admitted to Postdoctoral Programme of NIT Meghalaya through the procedures adopted by the Institute and avails Fellowships from any recognized funding agencies like SERB,CSIR, DST etc of the Government of India.

Eligibility for Applying Under Post-doctoral fellowship Scheme:

* The applicant must have obtained the Ph.D degree from a reputed Institute within the preceding two years from the last date of an application against the advertisement. In addition, the scholar should have secured first class or equivalent grades in the preceding degrees.

* Ph.D students, who have submitted their thesis, are also eligible to apply. If selected, he/ she will be offered lower fellowship amount till the award of Ph.D degree. However, they have to submit the provisional/degree certificate within 6 months from the date of appointment as an Institute PDFfailing which, the appointment will stand cancelled.

* The applicant should have published at least 3 research papers in SCI/SCIE/SSCI journals out of their own doctoral research work to their credit as the first author.

* A Ph.D degree holder from NIT Meghalaya is eligible to apply only after gaining one year of post-Ph.D. relevant experience.

Age Limit:

The upper age limit for the fellowship is 35 years at the time of the submission of application.

Application Fees:

Application fees of Rs. 1000/- for General/OBC and Rs. 500/- for SC/ST candidates to be paid via online. No application fee to be paid by PWD candidates.Application fees is not refundable under any cirumstances.

Shortlisting Criteria

* Each Department shall make the short listing of applications based on the Academic and Research records. The Departmental Research Committee (DRC) may fix additional shortlisting criteria based on the number of applications received and vacancy available.

* Shortlisted candidates will present his/her research work (including Ph.D & Proposed future work) before the Departmental Research Committee (DRC).

* Each Department shall forward the recommended list to the Postdoctoral Selection Committee.