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IISER Bhopal Announces Rolling Recruitment for Associate Professor and Professor Positions || IISER Bhopal Faculty Recruitment 2026: Associate Professor & Professor Posts

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 IISER Bhopal Announces Rolling Recruitment for Associate Professor and Professor Positions Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISER Bhopal) invites applications from accomplished academicians and researchers for Associate Professor and Professor positions across Natural Sciences, Engineering Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences. The Institute seeks candidates with an excellent academic record, demonstrated research excellence, academic leadership, and a strong commitment to excellence in teaching and research. 🏛️ Departments and Academic Areas Faculty positions are available in the following departments: Natural Sciences Biological Sciences Chemistry Earth and Environmental Sciences Mathematics Physics Engineering Sciences Chemical Engineering Data Science and Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Humanities and Social Sciences Economic Sciences Humanities and Social Sciences 👨‍🏫 Associate Professor Candidates applying for the...

Scientist of the Week - Prof. George Papenfuss | Prominent Algologists around the World

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Prof. George Papenfuss      The South African-born phycologist, Prof. George Papenfuss spent most of his career as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Papenfuss was a student at the University of Cape Town before moving to the United States in 1926. He has worked as a door-to-door salesman, which greatly improved his communication in English, he later enrolled at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, for the agricultural program. Papenfuss began to specialize in phycology at this time and completed a doctoral thesis on the life history of the brown algae Ectocarpus, in 1933.       The same year he married fellow graduate student 'Emma Johnstone' and spent 1934-1935 studying marine algae at the universities of Lund and Uppsala in Sweden, with phycologist Harald Kylin and Nils Svedelius. In Sweden, he became especially interested in South African phycology and in 1935 returned to Cape Town, his home country to study brown algae...

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