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Scale bands are a research classification, not a claim of experimental reach. Most of this span cannot be probed by any apparatus that exists: nothing below about 10^-19 m has been measured directly, and anything at 10^26 m or beyond is inferred from observation rather than engineered. Every opportunity states the kind of work it actually is.

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Nano Engineering Lead

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

What this division designs, who designs it, and the rule that maturity is stated in every claim.

Applied engineering Established science L6 · Lead Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Bio-Nano Engineer

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

Nanoscale structures that have to work in contact with living material, and what that constrains.

Computational Computational research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Bio-Nano Research Intern

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

One bio-nano interface studied computationally, with what the model leaves out written down.

Computational Computational research L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Bio-Nano Systems Lead

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

What this division works on, who works on it, and the rule that approvals come before work.

Computational Computational research L6 · Lead Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Bioinformatics Scientist

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

The pipelines and the statistics the division's biological conclusions rest on.

Computational Computational research L4 · Specialist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 5 more

Biomaterials Engineer

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

Materials meant for biological contact: response, degradation, and the failure the material eventually has.

Computational Computational research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Biosensor Engineer

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

Sensing concepts developed to a limit of detection derived in a realistic sample matrix.

Prototype Active experimental research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Biotechnology Intern

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

A scoped biotechnology question worked through with its biosafety and ethics context stated.

Computational Computational research L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Computational Biologist

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

Biological questions answered computationally, with confounders addressed rather than mentioned.

Computational Computational research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Computational Biology Intern

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

A public biological dataset analysed end to end in a pipeline that reruns from raw data.

Computational Computational research L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Principal Bioengineering Scientist

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

The division's scientific direction and the hardest problems at the biology-engineering boundary.

Computational Computational research L7 · Principal Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Senior Bio-Nano Engineer

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

Several bio-nano programmes at once, and the ethics and safety discipline across all of them.

Computational Computational research L5 · Senior Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Nano Device Engineer

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

Devices built from nanoscale structures, characterised against the specification they were designed to.

Prototype Active experimental research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineer

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

Nanoscale designs taken from a target to something a partner facility could attempt.

Applied engineering Established science L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering Intern

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

One nanoscale design question modelled and written up with its fabrication tolerances.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Sensor Intern

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

A sensing mechanism modelled to its noise floor, with the limit of detection derived rather than asserted.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Systems Engineer

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

How a nanoscale component behaves once it is part of something a person can hold.

Applied engineering Established science L4 · Specialist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nanoelectronics Intern

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

A nanoscale device modelled electrically, with the contact and interface effects included rather than idealised away.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nanofabrication Engineer

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

Process development with partner facilities, and the yield data that says whether a route is real.

Prototype Active experimental research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 7 more

Nanofabrication Intern

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

A fabrication route documented step by step, with its yield-limiting step identified.

Experimental Active experimental research L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nanomaterials Engineer

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

The materials themselves: what they are, how they are made, and whether the second batch matches the first.

Experimental Active experimental research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nanomaterials Intern

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

Analysing characterisation data for a nanomaterial and stating what the data does and does not establish.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nanophotonics Intern

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

An optical nanostructure simulated and its spectral response compared against an analytic limit.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nanotechnology Research Intern

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

A literature-grounded review of one nanomaterial class, separating what has been made repeatably from what has been made once.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Browse by division

Each division states the scale it works at and the kind of work it does, at the top of its own page.

Ultra-Fundamental & Mathematical Physics

Mathematical and theoretical work on the structure of spacetime, quantum foundations and the frameworks that attempt to describe physics below the Planck length. Entirely theory, mathematics and computation.

Particle, High-Energy & Nuclear Systems

Modelling and data analysis for particle, high-energy and nuclear physics: interaction models, Monte Carlo pipelines, detector data, and radiation effects in materials.

Quantum, Atomic & Precision Systems

Quantum information, algorithms, device modelling, sensing and atomic simulation, in the band where quantum states are measured directly rather than inferred.

Molecular Engineering & Computational Chemistry

Quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics and molecular design: computing what a molecule does, and comparing the prediction with measurement wherever measurement exists.

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

Nanomaterials, nanostructures, nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, sensing and metrology, across the band where structures are fabricated, imaged and characterised routinely.

Materials & Advanced Matter

Materials discovery and modelling across alloys, ceramics, polymers, composites, metamaterials, quantum and energy materials, and materials for extreme environments.

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

Device physics, microelectronics and VLSI, MEMS and NEMS, sensors and photonics, in the band where design, simulation and prototype meet.

Computer Science, AI & Scientific Computing

The cross-department division: research software, simulation platforms, HPC, AI for science, digital twins, data pipelines and the reproducibility every other division depends on.

Mathematics & Computational Foundations

The mathematical foundations the whole department stands on: numerical methods, convergence and stability, optimisation, probability, and the modelling support every other division draws on.

Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

Computational mechanics, robotics, precision engineering and advanced manufacturing, and the multiscale modelling that carries a material property up into a system that has to work.

Civil, Structural & Macro-Scale Systems

Structural engineering, smart infrastructure, advanced construction materials, infrastructure sensing and digital twins, and climate-resilient large-scale systems.

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

Nanobiotechnology, biomaterials, biosensors, computational biology and bioinformatics, tissue engineering, lab-on-chip and microfluidics, and the interfaces between biology and engineered surfaces.

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

Battery and energy-storage materials, hydrogen systems, solar materials, catalysis, carbon capture, water purification, environmental nanotechnology and climate systems modelling.

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

Aerospace and space systems engineering, extreme-environment materials, orbital and planetary systems modelling, space robotics and the architecture work behind long-horizon space research.

Astrophysics, Cosmology & Extreme-Scale Modelling

Computational astrophysics and cosmology: observational data analysis, gravitational and structure modelling, large-scale simulation, and the mathematics of models at and beyond the observable horizon.