Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has an active research group in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Currently this group has four faculty members, working in different areas of theoretical astrophysics (Arnab Rai Choudhuri, Chanda J. Jog, Banibrata Mukhopadhyay and Tarun Deep Saini).

All of these faculty members are also faculty members in the Department of Physics.  We also coordinate the Joint Astronomy Programme (JAP) – a programme for training PhD students in astrophysics, jointly run with several collaborating institutes.

The Joint Astronomy Programme was established in 1982 before there was any astrophysics group in IISc.  The astrophysics group started here in 1986. 

At present, this group is in a growth mode and is looking for bright young astrophysicists interested in joining our faculty.  See Faculty positions.

We take students to do PhD degree under the supervision of the faculty members of our group. See Student opportunities.

Anyone interested in a postdoctoral position in our group can apply for the DST supported fellowship or Centenary Postdoctoral Fellowship of IISc.