Departments and Specializations
Department / Post / Specialization AreasAerospace Engineering:
Only candidates with a clear focus on one or more of the specified areas will be considered / Assistant Professor / Experimental Structural Mechanics/Composites
Aircraft Aerodynamics (Experimentalists preferred)
Control and Flight Mechanics of Aerospace vehicles
Aircraft Design (aerodynamic/structural)
Associate Professor / Structural Dynamics and Acoustics
Applied Mechanics / Assistant Professor / Mechanics and Design of Soft/Composite Materials
Associate Professor / Geological Fluid Dynamics, BioSensors, Mechanics of Polymer Thin films
Chemical Engineering / Assistant Professor
Applicants should have at least one degree in Chemical Engineering / Energy- Thermochemical processing of fuels; Unconventional energy sources; Carbon capture and sequestration; Electrochemical energy systems; Process intensification; Process Safety.
Environment - Aerosol fate and transport; Water resources; Management and recovery of large scale ecological systems; Environmental sensors.
Materials - Synthesis and surface chemistry of functional materials; Non - equilibrium statistical mechanics/ multi-scale/ ab initio modelling.
Systems Biology - Bioinformatics; Modelling of disease inception, growth and treatment; Biological network analysis.
Associate Professor / All areas of Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Candidates with Basic and Masters Degree in Chemistryonly need apply / Associate Professor / Synthetic Organic Chemistry with specialization in reactive intermediates
Electrochemical energy conversion-storage materials and systems
Civil Engineering / Assistant Professor / Building Sciences, Infrastructure / Construction Management (with basic degree in Civil Engineering or Architecture)
Solid Waste Management (with at least a degree in Civil Engg or Chemical Engg)
Structural Health Monitoring, Fire & Wind Engineering (with basic degree in Civil Engineering)
Transportation Engineering
Associate Professor / Geotechnical Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering / Assistant Professor / All areas of Computer Science and Engineering
Associate Professor / All areas of Computer Science and Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Outstanding candidates in any other areas relevant to EE may also be considered / Assistant Professor / Image Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Speech processing,Optical Communication
Power Systems Protection, High Voltage, and Power Electronics Applications
MEMS, Microelectronics, Nano electronics/photonics
Allareasof analog and digital VLSI
Sensors and instrumentation, control (Optimization, Multiagent control, control of networks/infrastructures, systems & synthetic biology)
Computational EM, Terahertz Engineering
Associate Professor / All areas of Electrical Engineering
Engineering Design
Candidates should have demonstrated significant research output in one or more of the indicated areas / Assistant Professor / Automotive Electronics, Embedded System, Electric / Hybrid Vehicle Design - required at least one degree in electrical / electronics / allied areas
Biomedical Electronics, Embedded System, Medical Device Design, Medical Robotics, Inverse Problems in Biomedical Imaging - required at least one degree in biomedical or electrical/ electronics / allied areas
Associate Professor / Automotive Electronics, Embedded System, Electric / Hybrid Vehicle Design - required at least one degree in electrical / electronics / allied areas
Biomedical Electronics, Embedded System, Medical Device Design, Medical Robotics, - required at least one degree in biomedical or electrical / electronics / allied areas
Robotics System Design, Mechanical Characterization of Materials for Design and Manufacture, Treatment of Uncertainties in Design and Optimization
Humanities and Social Sciences / Assistant Professor / English Literature; Linguistics
Associate Professor / Industrial Economics; Gender Studies
Management Studies / Assistant Professor / Information Systems, Marketing Management
Associate Professor / Organizational Behaviour, Marketing Management, Operations Management
Mathematics / Assistant Professor / Discrete Mathematics, Complex Analysis, Functional Analysis
Number Theory, Probability and Mathematical Statistics
Topology and Geometry
Associate Professor / Algebraic Topology, Algebraic Geometry, Differential Equations
Discrete Mathematics, Functional Analysis, Linear Algebra
Probability and Mathematical Statistics
Mechanical Engineering / Assistant Professor / Robotics in Manufacturing, Metrology and Inspection
Machine Tools- Design & Dynamics, Metal forming
Additive manufacturing, Robotics and control, Rehabilitation Engineering, Experimental Mechanics including Tribology
Structural Health Monitoring, Turbomachinery, Cryogenic Engineering, Micro/bio fluidics, Solar Thermal Systems
Associate Professor / All areas of Mechanical Engineering
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering / Assistant Professor / Bio Materials, Metal Casting
Applicants should have at least one degree (bachelor / master) in Metallurgical or Materials Engineering / Associate Professor / High temperature deformation of Complex Alloys
Ceramics and Metal Matrix Composites
Ocean Engineering / Assistant Professor / Ph.D Relevant to Ocean Engineering / Petroleum Engineering with excellent academic records with bachelor's degree in engineering in Naval Architecture/ Civil/ Mechanical/ Ocean/ Petroleum.
Post Doctoral Research/ Industry experience in an area relevant to Naval architecture/ Ocean Engineering/ Petroleum Engineering.
Associate Professor / Ph.D Relevant to Ocean Engineering / Petroleum Engineering with excellent academic records with bachelor's degree in engineering in Naval Architecture/ Civil/ Mechanical/ Ocean/ Petroleum.
Post Doctoral Research/ Industry experience in an area relevant to Naval architecture/ Ocean Engineering/ Petroleum Engineering.
Physics / Assistant Professor / Soft Condensed Matter Experiments,
High energy physics experiments/phenomenology,
Gravitational waves and Cosmology,
Quantum optics/Quantum information, and
Theoretical condensed matter physics.
Associate Professor / All areas of Physics
Interdisciplinary areas: IIT Madras recognizes the importance of interdisciplinary areas. The candidates are encouraged to send their applications to departments in which they are best suitable as well asto the virtual ‘interdisciplinary’ department. The candidates will be categorized as ‘interdisciplinary’ if (a) their research interests are in one or more of the areas above and (b) such research cannot be done in one department alone.
Inter-disciplinary / Post / AreasComputational Brain Research / Assistant Professor
Associate Professor / Computational neuroanatomy; neural data analysis; engineering theories of the brain; analysis of neural circuits; neuroinformatics; neuronal signal processing and modeling of cognition; neurally inspired machine learning; neuromorphic computing; cognitive computing
Computational Biology & Complex Systems: / Assistant Professor
Associate Professor / Computational Biology & Complex Systems: Genomic, proteomic and metabolomic data analysis; Network modeling in biology; Control systems in biology
Additional information: Candidates may visit websites of individual departments for more specific information on departments and for any of the additional details.
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