JNCASR Research Associate (EMU/025) Recruitment 2026 — 1 Post

JNCASR Research Associate (EMU/025) Recruitment 2026 — 1 Post

The Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Jakkur, Bengaluru, has invited applications for 1 post of Research Associate (RA-I, II or III) in the Engineering Mechanics Unit, under Advertisement No. EMU/025 dated 12 November 2026 (signed 10 November 2026), under the guidance of Prof. Ganesh Subramanian. The last date to apply is 30 November 2026.

Please read — this is a different advertisement from EMU/024

This post must not be merged with the earlier JNCASR Research Associate advertisement EMU/024, which is already live on this site. EMU/024 (dated 14 October 2026) is under Prof. Santosh Ansumali, on soft matter and fluid mechanics with large-scale simulations and physics-informed neural networks, with a last date of 15 November 2026. This advertisement, EMU/025, is under Prof. Ganesh Subramanian, on active suspensions — swimmer migration and dispersion in unsteady shearing flows, the origin of oceanic thin phytoplankton layers, and the motion of active swimmers in complex spatially periodic and aperiodic shearing flows and dispersion in porous media — in collaboration with Prof. Laxminarsimha Rao, GITAM University, Hyderabad. Different advertisement, different principal investigator, different project, different last date.

Eligibility and age

Essential qualification: PhD in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering, Theoretical Physics, Applied Mathematics, or allied disciplines. Desirable: demonstrated excellence in research (theoretical and/or computational) in Microhydrodynamics, preferably Active Matter, evidenced by publications in top-tier fluid mechanics and physics journals such as the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physical Review Fluids and Physical Review Letters. The maximum age is 35 years; no cut-off date is stated. The notice adds that candidates under 40 years of age are preferred and relaxation of the age limit may be considered for exceptional candidates — 40 is a preference, not the limit.

Pay

RA-I Rs. 58,000 per month plus HRA, RA-II Rs. 61,000 per month plus HRA, or RA-III Rs. 67,000 per month plus HRA, based on qualification and experience. The tenure is not mentioned in the notice.

Fee

The notification does not specify any application fee. No fee is mentioned, and no fee figure has been invented — so no fee card is shown for this post.

How to apply

Apply by email only: send a scanned copy of the duly filled-in application form (available on the JNCASR website), scanned copies of original testimonials (educational qualification, age, experience, publication, etc.) and a brief resume to sganesh@jncasr.ac.in, with a copy to emuoffice@jncasr.ac.in (Mrs. Gayathri), by 30 November 2026. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for a technical discussion and personal interaction.