On the occasion of its foundation day, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has put out the list of recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for 2018.
Every year, several scientists below the age of 45 are selected from various institutions across the country and awarded for their outstanding scientific work in the last five years.
Here is the full list of winners this year in various categories
Category | Winner | Affiliation |
Biological Sciences | Dr Ganesh Nagaraju | IISc Bengaluru |
| Dr Thomas Pucadyil | IISER Pune | |
Chemical Sciences | Dr Rahul Banerjee | IISER Kolkata |
| Dr Swadhin Kumar Mandal | IISER Kolkata | |
Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences | Dr Madineni Venkat Ratnam | National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Tirupati |
| Dr Parthasarathi Chakraborty | CSIR-NIO, Goa | |
Engineering Sciences | Dr Amit Agrawal | IIT Bombay |
| Dr Ashwin Anil Gumaste | IIT Bombay | |
Mathematical Sciences | Dr Amit Kumar | IIT Delhi |
| Dr Nitin Saxena | IIT Kanpur | |
Medical Sciences | Dr Ganesan Venkatasubramanian | NIMHANS, Bengaluru |
Physical Sciences | Dr Aditi Sen De | Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad |
| Dr Ambarish Ghosh | IISc Bengaluru |
