The Department of Physics in the School of Natural Sciences at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (SNIoE) Delhi-NCR invites applications for admission in the Ph.D. program starting from August 2025. Our graduate program is designed to serve a wide range of research interests and offers an excellent learning and research environment to motivated and ambitious students. Many of our research projects are interdisciplinary in nature, involving collaborations across multiple departments in the School of Natural Sciences, as well as other schools and research centers of the University.

Research Areas: 

The department is looking for candidates who are interested in pursuing experimental and theoretical research in the below-mentioned broad areas of interest:

• Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical Physics
• Materials Science 
• Quantum Information
• Soft Matter Physics
• Nuclear and High-Energy Physics

Eligibility: 

•  A candidate who has passed M.Sc. in Physics/M.Tech. in Solid State Technology/Material Science/Nanoscience/Nanotechnology or an allied field in Natural Sciences with minimum 55% (or equivalent grade) marks or four-years bachelor’s degree in Physics/B.Tech. in Engineering Physics with a minimum of 75% marks or 7.5 CGPA from a recognized technical institute or university.*
• Merely satisfying eligibility criteria does not guarantee the shortlisting of a candidate for interview. 

*Please enquire in case you are uncertain about your eligibility for any reason.

Selection Process: 

• Applicants will be shortlisted based on merit by the department. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted via email and will be called for a written test. 
• The written test will be conducted offline at the Shiv Nadar IoE, Delhi NCR campus in Gautam Buddha Nagar District (near Greater Noida), U.P.  
• Shortlisted candidates (based on written test cut-off) will be called for Interview. Interviews will be conducted at the Shiv Nadar IoE, Delhi NCR campus.
• Syllabus: General Physics courses up to the level of M.Sc. (Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Electrodynamics, Mathematical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Nuclear and Particle Physics, Electronics, Thermal and Statistical Physics).
• Candidates with valid CSIR-NET-JRF fellowship will be exempted from the written test.

Fees and Financial Assistance: 

All full-time Ph.D. students admitted into the program shall receive a doctoral award (teaching and research assistantship) consisting of tuition-fee waiver (as per department’s policy) and a monthly stipend of ₹45,000 for the first two years, and ₹50,000 for the next three years, subject to benchmarked performance. The continuation of the award is subject to satisfactory performance in the program evaluated continuously and compliance with all University regulations. Moreover, all full-time Ph.D. scholars will receive an annual tuition waiver of ₹60,000 and an annual hostel fee subsidy of ₹60,000. Deserving Ph.D. students will also be eligible for a travel research grant of ₹1,50,000 to support conference travel (only for Scopus-indexed conferences), both domestic and international, during the five-year Ph.D. program.

Application Fees: 

You will be required to pay non-refundable application fees of Rs. 1,200 (One Thousand Two Hundred Only). The application fee can be paid online during the application process. 

Candidate may note that the University reserves the right to accept or reject any application based on its departmental screening criteria; hence, not all application may be shortlisted for written examination. Therefore, no requests for refund of the application fee shall be entertained whether or not the candidates are called for written examination. 

Application Instructions: 

All interested applicants shall apply online from the link given below or on the website. Please follow the instructions carefully.

• Fill all the mandatory fields 
• Online upload of the following documents is required
  • Passport size color photograph
  • Current CV 
  • All Mark sheets/Degree Certificates (10th Standard onwards)
  • Standardized Examination certificate-CSIR, GATE etc. (If applicable) 
  • A Statement of Purpose

Please note that the application will not be considered without all the necessary prescribed documents and application fee.

Important Dates:

• Last date for the receipt of completed application form & application fee: 03 May 2025 (Saturday)

For any other information or query contact to:

Ms. Kishmish Gurbani
EA to the HOD Physics,
School of Natural Sciences, Email:kishmish.gurbani@snu.edu.in
Telephone: +911203608750 (Extn. 6535)

Prof. Aloke Kanjilal (PG Advisor)
Department of Physics,
School of Natural Sciences,
Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence
(Deemed to be University), Delhi-NCR,
NH-91, Tehsil Dadri, Gautam Buddha Nagar,
Uttar Pradesh-201314, India
Email: aloke.kanjilal@snu.edu.in

Physics Research Areas and Infrastructure

Physics research Laboratories are equipped with basic research facilities, which include clean room, thermal deposition, chemical vapor deposition, pulsed electron deposition, magnetron sputtering, spin coater, ball-milling, vacuum annealing, high temperature oven, high temperature split tube furnaces, hydraulic press, glove box, microwave furnace, fume hoods, bio-safety cabinets, cryostat, XRD, AFM, Photo Luminescence, Raman Spectrometer, PPMS, Ellipsometry, FE-SEM, UV-visible-IR spectrophotometers, I-V measurement system, polarization loop-tracer, polarization microscope, fluorescence microscope, surface profiler, viscometer, thermal conductivity, contact angle, hydraulic manual coin cell Crimper, automatic battery film coating machine, electrochemical workstation and battery cycler, hydrothermal setup, and many others equipment within the school of natural science.

Computational facilities at SNS include a high-performance IBM cluster (“Magus”) consisting of 1080 cores (plus two nodes with GPU processors) delivering a theoretical peak performance of ~120 TF. Additionally, there are several stand-alone Linux workstations that are being used for teaching and research purpose. Several software for molecular modeling, molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, statistic learning, bioinformatics and cheminformatics, are also available.

Our library, housed in a modern 5-storey building, provides online access from anywhere in the campus, to the e-books, electronic journals and databases from APS, AIP, ACS, RSC, AMS, SIAM, IOP, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, Nature, and others.

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