Based on performance in the TIFR/JGEEBILS exam held on Dec 12, 2021, the following candidates are invited to submit a full application. This will be used by the following Centres/Institutions to shortlist candidates for interviews: DBS-TIFR (Mumbai); TCIS-TIFR (Hyderabad); NCBS-TIFR/inStem (Bangalore). Each Centre/Institution makes decisions to shortlist candidates independently, based on the material submitted in the full application.

Selected candidates shortly receive an email with a unique URL. This allows you to access the application form and is your personalized upload link. The email contains instructions for the submission of your full application

You will be asked to provide the names of two referees. They will be contacted and asked to submit their reports electronically to us. Please ask your referees now so that they have plenty of time to prepare your reports.We strongly encourage you to provide institutional email IDs for your referees. You will receive a notification when your referees are contacted and are responsible for ensuring that the reports are sent in on time.

There is no provision to submit the Application Form or Referee Reports offline. Incomplete application forms or those not supported by Referee Reports are invalid and not processed further.

Candidates are then shortlisted for interviews by each Centre/Institution on the basis of the statement of interest, scientific and extra-curricular efforts, academic performance, Referee Reports, and scores/ranks in written tests. If you are shortlisted for an interview, you will receive a call letter directly from the relevant Centre(s)/Institution(s). The dates for the interviews will be mentioned in this call letter.

TIFR-DBS, TIFR-H, TIFR-NCBS and DBT-InStem will also consider candidates based on their GATE/CSIR/UGC-NET rank. Via this route we will only consider candidates if:

(1) You are in the top 10 percentile of ranks (e.g. you must have a rank of 200 or better if a total of 2000 candidates appeared for the corresponding exam). In the full application you will be required to state your GATE/CSIR/UGC-NET rank and upload the corresponding Score Card as supporting evidence.

AND

(2) You should have at least eight months of research experience under a single supervisor at the time of submission of this application. This research supervisor must be included as one of your referees at the time of submission of the full application.

If both the above apply to your case, please write to phd at ncbs dot res dot in We will provide instructions to you on how to submit a full application.

For any deviations from this procedure you must obtain approval and instructions by writing to phd at ncbs dot res dot in.

Centres/Institutions will consider any and all applications received before the following dates. You only need to submit a single Application Form.

DBS-TIFR: 06/04/2022

TCIS-TIFR: 06/04/2022

NCBS-TIFR/inStem: 06/04/2022

ICTS-TIFR: 06/04/2022