Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata

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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
IISER-K Logo.svg
MottoTowards Excellence in Science
Type Public university
Establishedc. 2006;18 years ago (2006)
Budget₹115.99 crore (US$15 million)
(FY2021–22 est.) [1]
Chairman Arvind Natu [2]
Director Soumitro Banerjee
Academic staff
136 (2023) [1]
Students1,572 (2023) [1]
Undergraduates 1,046 (2023) [1]
Postgraduates 35 (2023) [1]
491 (2023) [1]
Location
Mohanpur
,
West Bengal
,
India

22°57′49.83″N88°30′55.76″E / 22.9638417°N 88.5154889°E / 22.9638417; 88.5154889
Campus Semi Urban
201 acres (81 ha)
Colours    Blue, white
Website www.iiserkol.ac.in OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Former Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh laying the foundation stone for Kolkata Campus of the Institute The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh laying the foundation stone for Kolkata Campus of the Indian Institute of Science, Education & Research in Kolkata on July 11, 2006.jpg
Former Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh laying the foundation stone for Kolkata Campus of the Institute
Directors

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (known as IISERK or IISER KOLKATA) is an public autonomous Research institute in science and education field located in Mohanpur near the town of Kalyani in Nadia, West Bengal, India. It was established by the Ministry of Education, Government of India in 11 July 2006 and promoted to the status of an Arya Institute in 2012 vide the NIT Amendment Act. [3] It is one of seven Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, and was one of the first IISERs to be established along with IISER Pune. It is considered to be one of the leading institutes of India in terms of research output. In 2022, it was ranked fourth among the academic institutions in India by the Nature Index in 2022. [4] The current director of IISER Kolkata is Prof Sunil Kumar Khare.

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Entrance of IISER, Kolkata IISER Kolkata Entrance.jpg
Entrance of IISER, Kolkata

Organisation and administration

Administrative Building of IISER, Kolkata in Kalyani campus Administrative Block, IISER, Kolkata in Kalyani campus 08.jpg
Administrative Building of IISER, Kolkata in Kalyani campus

The institute hosts the multi-institutional Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India [5] (CESSI) with participating scientists from ISRO and other astronomy institutes and is involved in research associated with national space science missions. Other centres [6] include the Centre for Advanced Functional Materials, National Centre for High Pressure Studies and a Centre for Climate and Environment Studies. It also has a field station for ecological, environmental and field studies, a greenhouse, a broadband seismological observatory. The institute jointly runs the Göttingen-Kolkata: Open shell systems (G-KOSS) in fundamentals of molecular spintronics with Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. [7] The institute also hosts the Dirac Supercomputer, which was inaugurated in April 2019. The performance of this supercomputing facility is 78.8 Teraflops. [8]

Departments and initiatives

Laboratories and research centers

Events

The college organizes a major annual festival, Inquivesta, [9] which is promoted as one of the first and the biggest science festivals of the country. [10]

Inquivesta sees a footfall of 1000+, and has been visited by artists such as Zakir Khan (comedian), Sapan Verma, Nalayak (band) and Anubhav Singh Bassi. It has also received brands such as Baskin-Robbins and Domino's Pizza as its previous partners [11] [12] IISER Kolkata has also been hosting VIJYOSHI (the national science camp), along with IISc Bangalore and the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, since 2014. [13]

The institute also has an E-Cell [14] for promoting an entrepreneurial culture in the student body.

Rankings

University rankings
General – international
Times (Emerging) (2022) [15] 251–300
General – India
NIRF (Overall) (2022) [16] 40
NIRF (Research) (2022) [17] 32

Internationally, the institute was ranked 251–300 among institutes in emerging economies, by the Times Higher Education 's "Emerging Economies University Rankings 2022". [15]

In India, the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked the institute 40 overall in 2022, [16] and 32 among research institutes. [17]

It was ranked fourth among the academic institutions in India by the Nature Index in the 2022 tables, [4] and thirteenth in the 2023 tables. [18]

In the 2023 NIRF India Rankings, the institute was ranked 43 overall, [19] and 40 among the research institutions. [20]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Dr. Arvind Natu Nominated as Chair of Board of Governors of IISER Kolkata". sakaltimes.com. 20 March 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  3. ↑ "NIT Amendment Act, 2012" (PDF). Retrieved 6 May 2020.
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  5. ↑ "Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India".
  6. ↑ "Centres at IISER Kolkata".
  7. ↑ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Göttingen-Kolkata: G-KOSS. Uni-goettingen.de (2013-07-07). Retrieved on 2013-10-09.
  8. ↑ "Dirac Supercomputer". www.iiserkol.ac.in. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  9. ↑ "Inquivesta Home Page". Inquivesta.iiserkol.ac.in. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  10. ↑ https://www.inquivesta.com/brochure.html [ bare URL ]
  11. ↑ "Home". Inquivesta.com. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  12. ↑ "Sponsors". Inquivesta.com. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  13. ↑ "Vijyoshi 2019". vijyoshi.iiserkol.ac.in.
  14. ↑ "E-Cell IISERK Home Page". ecelliiserk.com. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  15. 1 2 "Emerging Economies University Rankings 2022". Times Higher Education . 2022.
  16. 1 2 "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2022 (Overall)". National Institutional Ranking Framework . Ministry of Education. 15 July 2022.
  17. 1 2 "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2022 (Research)". National Institutional Ranking Framework . Ministry of Education. 15 July 2022.
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