Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

About the Institute

The Jawahar Lal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore is well known institute for conducting research in different areas of sciences and society. The Department of Science and Technology of Government of India formed the center in 1989. The center is divided into seven different units, namely- Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Engineering Mechanics, Evolutionary and Organismal Biology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Theoretical Sciences, Educational Technology and Geodynamics. The center has two off campus units at the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bangalore: the Chemical Biology and Condensed Matter Theory Units. In last few years the Centre's faculty members have published their research in some of the most prestigious scientific journals, including Nature, Nature Medicine, Science, Evolution, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and Physical Review Letters. These members also won several rewards for outstanding work.

The center also provides support to a range of educational outreach activities.