Sundaravalli Narayanan

🚨Only 2 weeks left to apply for our fully funded #PhD studentships at the University of St-Andrews @StAndrewsChem. Join our fantastic group (@chemguy_eli ) here in Scotland! Sharing across networks with relevant interests would be greatly appreciated.🙏#OLED #AI #photocatalysis

Excited to announce📢fully funded double-degree PhD opportunity! Joint doctoral programme between The University of Tokyo × The University of Manchester Joint project between @Yanai_Lab × @DanToolan! findaphd.com/phds/project/u…

@oovijit7777 Congratulations!!💫💫

Just out in AOM-Role of excited state structural reorganization in TADF! we show how aggregation suppresses low-frequency modes in flexible emitters, reducing S₁–T₁ reorganization and boosting TADF efficiency. Congratulations to all the coauthors! advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Applications are now open for FY2026 Postdoctoral Fellowships (Short-term(PE)(2nd)). Please submit your application forms via Japanese host institutions to the JSPS Electronic Application System. 🕔 Deadline: Jan. 9, 5 p.m. (JST) 🔗jsps.go.jp/english/e-fell… #fellowship #postdocs

🚨 Exciting opportunity! Our group at JNCASR is hiring a Postdoc. If you have experience in low-temperature transport measurements and condensed matter physics we’d love to hear from you! 📧 Send your CV to us. 🌐 To know more about our group, visit: faculty.jncasr.ac.in/kanishka/

Careers @ANRF #ANRFIndia invites applications from eligible candidates for various positions. For more information on eligibility, mode of hiring, & other details, visit: serb.gov.in/assets/pdf/Det… serb.gov.in/assets/pdf/Det… #CareerOpportunity #Hiring

Young scientists, get ready to advance your research journey! Call for Proposals for ANRF–Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant (PMECRG) 2025 opens 3 Nov 2025. Application window: 3 Nov. 2025-2 Dec. 2025 For more info, visit: anrfonline.in/ANRF/ecrg_anrf… #ANRFIndia #PMECRG

If you know anyone in grad school running their MSc or PhD - you might want to share this research roadmap with them. Clickable links: - OA.mg + paperpanda.app - unpaywall.org + libgen.tw - sci.hubg.org + arxiv.org - old.reddit.com/r/Scholar/ + z-lib.org

Sharing My Insight on the Nobel Prize, Featured in The Times of India

Are you a PhD graduate in the Life Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, Math or Computer Science? Apply for the Max Planck-Weizmann Joint Postdoctoral Program. Includes a fully funded four-year position, split equally between these two esteemed institutions >>

Calling all teachers! Six lessons on this year's new Nobel Prizes are now ready to be used at nobelprize.org. With one lesson on each 2025 prize, you and your students can take a deep-dive into the world of science, literature and peace. Find all lessons here: bit.ly/47gYrWb #NobelPrize

In the past year, #NobelPeacePrize laureate Maria Corina Machado has been forced to live in hiding. Despite serious threats against her life she has remained in the country, a choice that has inspired millions of people. When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination. Read more about the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize: nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2… #NobelPrize

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy. #NobelPrize

✅✅ A reminder by Dr. Rahaf Ajaj: She wasn’t on the Stanford list… but she made it to the Nobel stage. 🏅 Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. She never appeared in Stanford’s ranking of the world’s top 2% of scientists. She didn’t chase citations, metrics, or the spotlight. Yet, she became part of a discovery that changed how humanity understands the immune system. Today, while many are busy chasing numbers, titles, and rankings — she reminds us what truly matters in science: the question. 🔹 She wasn’t running after the lists. 🔹 She was running after the truth. Because in the end, it’s not about how many papers you publish… It’s about how deeply your idea can reshape the world. Focus on your idea, not your ranking.

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

Looking for an enthusiastic PhD student to come to Oxford next year to design and synthesise cool luminescent organics. Please share 🙂 @OxfordChemistry @ERC_Research jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY750/dph…

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

Lise Meitner was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry 49 times (19 times for Chemistry and 30 times for Physics), but never won. Many people consider this a great injustice, as her colleague Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their joint discovery of nuclear fission. 📷 Meitner at the Vienna International airport photographed in 1953. Courtesy of Austrian National Library.

For a PhD, you need to be a romantic at some level. Your papers will get rejected. Your ideas will get scooped. All while you peers flourish. And yes--It will sting. 2023 was one such year for me. Yet I call it my golden year, because that’s when I truly fell in love with my research. I found my escape in it.