Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad
| Type | Research Institution |
|---|---|
| Established | October 1945 (for TIFR) |
| Location | Hyderabad, India |
| Campus | Urban, 206 acres (83.4 ha) |
| Website |
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad is a public research institution in Hyderabad, India.[1] It is a part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
History
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone for the institute on 19 October 2010.[2]
Campus
It is located on a 209 acre campus near the Hyderabad Central University. Until October 2017, it operated from a temporary campus in Narsingi. It has now shifted to the permanent campus at Goppannapally in the First Research and Teaching Building (FReT-B) of TIFR Hyderabad.
The Institute
The grand aim of the institute is to promote research that uses tools of different disciplines to comprehensively address scientific questions. Thus the first centre of TIFR Hyderabad is the TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences (TCIS). The institute currently has 24 regular faculty members working in a wide variety of research areas such as theoretical and computational chemistry and physics, soft matter physics, synthetic chemistry, NMR spectroscopy, material sciences, biophysics, laser sciences, cell and cancer biology, mechanobiology, immunology, and molecular genetics. The first batch of PhD admits came in during the Fall term of 2013 and currently the institute has a strength of around 70 full-time students and 30 visiting students and postdoctoral fellows.
Batches start in August. Depending on the discipline, students are required to take the GATE, JEST, the TIFR-GS or the NET examinations. Upon a first round of selection, students then go through face-to-face interviews before being admitted. Students are admitted to the TIFR Deemed University, and are subject to the norms of one of the Subject Boards of Physics, Chemistry or Biology of TIFR.
More information about the institute can be found at its website (https://www.tifrh.res.in/). Vignettes of the activities at the institute can also be found on its twitter account, tifrh_buzz (https://twitter.com/tifrh_buzz?lang=en), or on its Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TIFR-Centre-for-Interdisciplinary-Sciences-1387091408201266/). More information about the older and more established campus of TIFR in Mumbai, and its associated centres, can be found on the website of TIFR Mumbai (http://www.tifr.res.in/).
