Motto | Towards Excellence in Science for an Innovative India |
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Type | Public |
Established | 2006; by MHRD |
Chairman | Shri Prathap C. Reddy |
Dean | Supriyo Mitra (Research and Development) Pradipta Purkayastha (Academic) Arindam Kundagrami (Student) P. K. Panigrahi (Faculty) |
Director | R.N. Mukherjee |
Academic staff
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91 |
Students | 1204 |
Location |
Haringhata, Mohanpur (Transient), West Bengal, India 22°57′50″N 88°31′29″E / 22.963767°N 88.524613°ECoordinates: 22°57′50″N 88°31′29″E / 22.963767°N 88.524613°E |
Campus | Rural, 201 acres |
Website | www |
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata (Hindi: भारतीय विज्ञान शिक्षा और अनुसंधान संस्थान, कोलकाता , Bengali: ভারতীয় বিজ্ঞান শিক্ষা ও গবেষণা সংস্থান, কলকাতা; IISER-K; also referred as IISER - Kolkata) is an autonomous science research and education institute in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, awarding its own degrees. It was established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2006 and promoted to the status of an Institute of National Importance in 2012 vide the NIT Amendment Act. It is one of seven Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, and was the first of the IISERs to be established along with IISER Pune.
The institute has five major departments: biological sciences; chemical sciences; earth sciences; mathematics and statistics; and physical sciences.
The institute hosts the Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences (CESSI) and a Max Planck-DST Partner Group of Chemical Ecology funded by the Max Planck Society. It also has a field station for ecological, environmental and field studies, and 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.