CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR ENDOWED FACULTY CHAIRS / RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP FOR OUTSTANDING YOUNG FACULTY AT IITK
07 January 2009

Nominations are invited for the following FOUR Endowed Faculty Chair Positions and also FOUR Research Fellowship for Outstanding Young Faculty:

Faculty Chairs:

1. Prof B.B. Lal Chair
2. Sri M. Visvesvaraya Chair for Water Resources
3. Sri Jagdeo Narain Gupta and Smt Murti Devi Gupta Chair
4. Prof C.V. Seshadri Chair

Research Fellowship for Outstanding Young Faculty (not exceeding 40 years of age as on January 27, 2009):

  1. D. Shukla Research Fellowship for Outstanding Young Faculty
  2. Class of 1979 Research Fellowships for Outstanding Young Faculty (2 nos.)
  3. Sri M. Visvesvaraya Research Fellowship for Outstanding Young Faculty for Water Resources.

All the above chair positions are for the existing faculty members at IITK.

The aim of these Chairs/ Fellowships is to recognize and honour those faculty members who, through their work at IIT, have achieved excellence.

  • B.B. Lal Chair isfor a faculty member who has worked on science and technology related to archaeological work.
  • Sri M. Visvesvarya Chair for Water Resource and Sri M. Visvesvaraya Research Fellowship for Young Faculty for water resources, with special emphasis on assessment of the effect of climate change on water Resources, and adaptation strategies in respect of planning, design and management of water resources systems of Ganga basis, and other related issues with the sector.
  • Sri Jagdeo Narain Gupta and Smt Murti Devi Gupta Chair for faculty member on rotation basis, first of Chemical Engineering Department and then Electrical Engineering Department.
  • Prof C.V. Seshadri Chair is for a faculty members of Chemical Engineering Department.
  • D. Shukla Research Fellowship for outstanding new faculty member of the Institute working in the area of energy/power generation.
  • Class of 1979 Research Fellowship is for an outstanding young Faculty member open to all the departments.


The period of occupation of a chair shall be for a period of three years at a time.

Nominations are invited for all these Chairs/Research Fellowships from:

(a) Faculty members (past or present) of IIT Kanpur
(b) Non IITK faculty members of the present Academic Senate,
(c) Members of BOG of IIT Kanpur.

Please send your nomination to DOFA in a hard-copy after obtaining the consent of the person whom you’re nominating. An individual is welcome to send more than one nomination. Please note that the nominations are to be restricted to the faculty members of IIT Kanpur. Nominations received will be acknowledged by DOFA.

LAST DATE FOR RECEIVING THE NOMINATION(S) IS: January 27, 2009

Selection procedure for the Chair positions is given at the following URL:

http://www.iitk.ac.in /dofa/sel_endowed.htm

For any clarification or further information, please contact:

Dean, Faculty Affairs
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.