The SERB-National Post Doctoral Fellowship (N‑PDF) is aimed to identify motivated young researchers and provide them support for doing research in frontier areas of science and engineering. The fellows will work under a mentor, and it is hoped that this training will provide them a platform to develop as an independent researcher.

• The applicant should be an Indian citizen
• The applicant must have obtained Ph.D/M.D/M.S degree from a recognized University. Those who have submitted their PhD/M.D/M.S thesis and are awaiting award of the degree are also eligible to apply. However, such candidates, if selected, will be offered lower fellowship amount till they qualify the eligible degree
• The upper age limit for the fellowship is 35 years at the time of the submission of application, age will be calculated by taking the date of closure of the respective call. Age relaxation of 5 (five) years will be given to candidates belonging to SC/​ST/​OBC/​Physically Challenged & Women candidates
• NPDF can be availed only once by a candidate in his/​her career.
• Mentor must hold a regular academic/​research position in a recognized institution in India.Should hold Ph.D. degree in Science or Engineering.
• A mentor shall not have more than two SERB NPDF fellows at any given time.
• Applicants of NPDF, SRG and EMR can submit their proposal only once in a calender year in any of these schemes.
  

For successful online submission of the application the following points may be noted: 

• Applicants should first register into the online website click here to register
• After log-in, applicants are required to fill all the mandatory fields in Profile Detail section under User Profile. which includes Bio-data, Photo, Institute Address etc.
• Please ensure that your proposed Mentor is registered into the system by following the same procedure. After log-in, Mentor is required to fill all the mandatory fields in Profile Detail section under User Profile. which includes Bio-data, Photo, Institute Address etc.
• Details including Project Title (max 500 characters), Project summary (max 3000 characters), Keywords (max 6), Objectives of project (max 1500 characters), Expected output and outcome of the proposal (max 1500 characters) should be provided online at the time of submission of the application.
• Work Methodology and Research plan has to be uploaded in single PDF file not more than 3 pages (max 10 MB).
• For details one may visit http://​ser​bon​line​.in/​S​E​R​B​/npdf