National Post Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF)

National Post Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF)

About National Post Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF)

Objective

The ANRF-National Post Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF) is aimed to identify motivated young researchers and provide them support for doing research in frontier areas of science and engineering. The fellows will work under a mentor, and it is hoped that this training will provide them a platform to develop as an independent researcher.

Eligibility

The applicant should be an Indian citizen.

The applicant must have obtained Ph.D/M.D/M.S degree from a recognized University. Those who have submitted their PhD/M.D/M.S thesis and are awaiting award of the degree are also eligible to apply. However, such candidates, if selected, will be offered lower fellowship amount till they qualify the eligible degree.

The upper age limit for the fellowship is 35 years at the time of the submission of application, age will be calculated by taking the date of closure of the respective call. Age relaxation of 5 (five) years will be given to candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC/Physically Challenged & Women candidates.

NPDF can be availed only once by a candidate in his/her career.

Mentor must hold a regular academic/research position in a recognized institution in India. Should hold Ph.D. degree in Science or Engineering.

A mentor shall not have more than two ANRF NPDF fellows at any given time.

Applicants of NPDF, SRG and EMR can submit their proposal only once in a calendar year in any of these schemes.

For more details and Applications please refer the Website

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