The Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Awards are given annually by the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITy).
The awards carry a cash prize of 5 lakh rupees and a citation. A researcher must have at least five years of research experience in their core field to qualify. These are India’s foremost scientific research awards.
The list of eligible fields is:
1. Biological Sciences
2. Chemical Sciences,
3. Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences,
4. Engineering Sciences,
5. Mathematical Sciences,
6. Medical Sciences, and
7. Physical Sciences.
Winners of the 2023 Prize
There are twelve awardees this year. Please click on the individual citations to see the amazing work being done by these scientists.
Biological Sciences
Dr. Ashwani Kumar, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology;
Dr. Maddika Subba Reddy, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting Diagnostics, Hyderabad
Chemical Sciences
Dr. Akkattu Biju, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru;
Dr. Debabrata Maiti, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay;
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Dr. Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
Engineering Sciences
Dr. Dipti Ranjan Sahoo, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi;
Dr. Rajnish Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Mathematical Science
Dr. Apoorva Khare, Indian Institute of Science
Dr. Neeraj Kayal, Microsoft Research Lab India
Medical Sciences
Dr. Dipyaman Ganguly, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata
Physical Sciences
Dr. Anindya Das, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Dr. Basudeb Dasgupta, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
