Max Planck-India  Partner Groups

The “Max Planck Partner Groups” are an instrument created by the Max Planck Society for the purpose of strengthening the ties between Max Planck Institutes and foreign research institutes and of intensifying cooperation between individual scientists through jointly conducted projects.

Partner groups are headed by visiting scientists with proven research records and profiles who, after completing their research residency at a Max Planck Institute, return to their home base to lead an appropriately equipped research group. Within the scope of Partner Group funding, scientists are given the opportunity to continue their research at their home institute under favorable working conditions and in close contact with their former host institute. For the Max Planck Society, the Partner Groups are a means of facilitating access to high-performance research institutes overseas.

	Mahendra Sonawane Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai		M. Krishnamurthy Dept. of Nuclear & Atomic Physics Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai
	Prof. Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard MPI for Developmental Biology		Prof. Joachim Ullrich MPI for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
	Developmental Biology, Genetics, 2007-11		Laser Science, 2007-11
	Sudipto Roy Barman UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore		Rajendra Singh Department of Physics Indian Institute of Technology Delhi New Delhi
	Prof. Gerard Meijer Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin		Prof. Ulrich Gösele MPI of Microstructure Physics
	Condensed Matter Physics, 2007-11		Solid State Physics, 2007-11
	Bhola R. Gurjar Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Roorkee		Ashok Giri National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
	Prof. Jos Lelieveld MPI for Chemistry, Mainz		Prof. Ian Baldwin MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena
	Megacities and Global change, 2006-10		Developing a pest protection strategy for chickpea based on proteinase inhibitor defenses, 2006-10
	Meheboob Alam J. Nehru Center for Advanced Sciences Bangalore		Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences Kolkatta
	Pro. Bo Barker Joergensen MPI for Marine Microbiology, Bremen		Prof. O. Krogh Andersen MPI for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
	Topography formation, 2006-10		Unravelling chemical bonding and physical properties of novel materials using Wannier-like functions, 2005-09
	Naveen Garg Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Delhi New Delhi		Amol Dighe Dept. of Theoretical Physics Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai
	Prof Kurt Mehlhorn MPI for Informatik, Saarbruecken		Prof. Wolfgang Hollik MPI for Physics, München
	Approximation Algorithms, 2005-09		Neutrino Physics , 2005-09

Max Planck-India Fellowships

Max Planck-India Fellowships are awarded to outstanding, promising young Indian scientists not older than 35 years. Candidates must hold a doctors degree and will receive a sum of 3,000 EUR p.a. for up to four years. Fellowship Holders have the right to visit at a Max Planck Institute (MPI) for up to two months a year.
The Fellowship holder is also free to decide on the use of funds within the given framework and for all purposes in connection with the ongoing cooperation with the MPI