Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) is a premier scientific research institute under the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, located in Bhat Village, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. IPR is engaged in development of plasma technologies for societal benefits and fusion research. It has indigenously developed ADITYA and SST-1 tokamaks. It is also a domestic agency of ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, Caderache France) and a part of consortium in the international LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory) program. It has extension laboratories at Facilitation Center for Industrial Plasma Technologies in Gandhinagar, Gujarat and Center for Plasma Physics (CPP) at Guwahati. Highly motivated candidates are hereby invited to pursue doctoral research in theory, experiment and computational plasma physics at IPR on wide variety of fields such as Dusty plasma, Laser-Plasma interaction, Industrial Plasma, Fusion Plasma, Tokamaks and Radio frequency Discharges and Applications etc. Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. in one of the following subjects: Physics, Engineering Physics or Applied Physics with a minimum aggregate of 60%. Candidates must have Physics and Mathematics courses at the under graduate level. Candidates expecting a Master’s degree (M. Sc.) in the year 2024 can apply. BS/B.Sc. (4-years) in Physics with a minimum aggregate of 75% can also apply.
