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Opportunities

Current Openings:

 
Name of the post(s) Advertisement details Deadline for submission
Senior Administrative Assistant July 07, 2025
Administrative Assistant July 07, 2025

Scientific & Technical Assistant I

 July 07, 2025
Scientific Trainee (Optical Fibre-Based Distributed Acoustic Sensing Project) June 15, 2025
Scientific Trainee (SUIT/Aditya L1) Project February 28, 2025
Scientific & Technical Officer – D (Ligo-India) February 12, 2025
Scientific & Technical Officer - C (Instrumentation) February 12, 2025

 

Positions for which we are accepting applications throughout the year/ at designated times during the year:

 
Name of the post(s) Advertisement details
Regular Faculty
 Faculty Positions in
 UV / Optical /
 IR Instrumentation

We are currently accepting applications for Faculty Positions in UV/ Optical/ IR Instrumentation. Please click here for details.

Important information:

  • The last date for receipt of applications is February 16, 2025.
  • However, late applications may be considered at the discretion of the institute. If you have any queries, you may write to Prof. A. N. Ramaprakash at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with a copy to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Post-doctoral Fellowships
  • Currently, we do not have any Post-doctoral Fellowships openings.
We are currently accepting applications for the following Post-Doctoral Positions.
  • Vaidya-Raychaudhuri Post-Doctoral Position
  • Regular Post-Doctoral Position
  • Project Post-Doctoral Position [Click here for Project details.]
    • AstroSat Science Support Cell (ASSC)
    • Gas-galaxy co-evolution using optical/NIR spectroscopy and imaging
    • Intergalactic / circumgalactic medium (IGM/CGM)
    • Gravitational Wave Astronomy
    • Gravitational Wave Instrumentation
    • High-redshift galaxies in the Hubble Frontier Fields and GOODS field
    • High-resolution spectroscopy and chemical abundance analysis
    • IUCAA Rubin LSST
    • Intergalactic medium (IGM) and circumgalactic medium (CGM)
    • MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS)
    • Neutron star modelling and Gravitational Wave data analysis
    • Optical fiber based distributed acoustic sensing
    • SUIT Project
    • Solar Astrophysics
    • Spectral and timing analysis of X-ray binaries and AGN
    • Stellar variability and distance indicators in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies

Please click here to apply.

We have now stopped accepting applications for Post-Doctoral Positions.

Important information:
  • The last date for receipt of applications is November 17, 2024 [Extended].
  • The last date for submitting referees' reports is November 17, 2024 [Extended].
  • The selected candidates will be informed by the end of March 2025.
We are currently accepting applications for Post-Doctoral Positions under the project "Cosmology with Gravitational Lensing". [ Click here for project details ]

Please click here to apply.

Important information:
  • The last date for receipt of applications is March 25, 2024
  • The last date for submitting referees' reports is March 25, 2024

 

 Admission to our Ph.D. and M.Sc. Programmes:

 
Name of the programme Avenues through which students are admitted
Research Scholars
>> Junior Research Fellowship at IUCAA

Applications are invited for the appointment of a JRF on temporary basis to work full time in the research project titled, “Precision Stellar Astrophysics to Probe Cosmic Expansion” at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India. The JRF position is sponsored by the PM-ECRG scheme of the Anusandhan National Research Foundation.

Please click here for the details.

Application Deadline: June 27, 2025

 
SPPU-IUCAA joint M.Sc. Physics (Astrophysics) programme      Click here for more details.

Opportunities

Current Openings:

 
Name of the post(s) Advertisement details Deadline for submission
Senior Administrative Assistant July 07, 2025
Administrative Assistant July 07, 2025

Scientific & Technical Assistant I

 July 07, 2025

Positions for which we are accepting applications throughout the year/ at designated times during the year:

 
Name of the post(s) Advertisement details
Faculty
Post-doctoral Fellowships
  • Currently, we do not have any PDF openings.
We are currently accepting applications for the following Post-Doctoral Positions.
  • Vaidya-Raychaudhuri Post-Doctoral Position
  • Regular Post-Doctoral Position
  • Project Post-Doctoral Position
    • Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
    • High-redshift galaxies in the Hubble Frontier Fields
    • Intergalactic / circumgalactic medium (IGM/CGM)
    • IUCAA Rubin LSST
    • MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS)
    • Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT)
    • Studying galaxy evolution using optical/NIR spectroscopy and imaging

Please click here to apply.

We have now stopped accepting applications for Post-Doctoral Positions.

Important information:
  • The last date for receipt of applications is January 19, 2024
  • The last date for submitting referees' reports is January 25, 2024
  • The selected candidates will be informed by the end of March 2024.
We are currently accepting applications for Post-Doctoral Positions under the project "Cosmology with Gravitational Lensing". [ Click here for project details ]

Please click here to apply.

Important information:
  • The last date for receipt of applications is March 25, 2024
  • The last date for submitting referees' reports is March 25, 2024

 

 Admission to our Ph.D. and M.Sc. Programmes:

 
Name of the programme Avenues through which students are admitted
Research Scholars
SPPU-IUCAA joint M.Sc. Physics (Astrophysics) programme      Click here for more details.