The Doctoral Programme at NIAS is a vibrant multidisciplinary programme in various disciplines. Sixty students have graduated so far. The programme is recognised by the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Mysore University, and the University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology which award degrees.

Our PhD graduates have gone on to become faculty and post-doctoral scholars at prestigious institutes across the country and abroad including IISER Bhopal; IISER Mohali; IISER Tirupati; RV University, Bengaluru; Cotton University, Guwahati; St. John's Research Institute, Bengaluru; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany; Wildlife Trust of India, Nodia; Christ University, Bengaluru; Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad; Ramaiah Public Policy Centre, Bengaluru; Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun; Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius; Azim Premji University, Bengaluru; ATREE, Bengaluru; Manipal University, Jaipur; York University, UK; Open Platform for Orphan Diseases; NIAS, Bengaluru; Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, Bengaluru; University of Gottingen, Germany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Banjara Academy, Bengaluru, Jain University, Bengaluru, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Jindal School of International Affairs, Sonipat and Sai University, Chennai. Other organisations that our alumni belong to include Sathu.com, Kanaja Youth Research Centre, EQUINOCT Community Sourced Modelling Solutions, Stratacent and A. P. Moller - Maersk.

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1) Susmita Subramanyam 2) M D Madhusudan
3) Savita K Angadi 4) S K Uma
5) Vijayluxmi Beeharry-Panray 6) Nithin Nagaraj
7) S K Arun Murthi 8) Meera Baindur
9) M B Rajani 10) Indira Jayaram
11) Robin V Vijayan 12) Rahul Mukhopadhyay
13) Muthusamy Murugan 14) Sahana Udupa
15) Sailen Routray 16) Rishi Kumar
17) Anu Joy 18) Swarnali Majumdar
19) Mayukh Chatterjee 20) Kishor G Bhat
21) Narayan Sharma 22) Sreeja K G
23) Jafar K 24) Sajini Anand P S
25) Lakshmi Kuchibhotla 26) Asmita Sengupta
27) K G Asha 28) R Maithreyi
29) Shreejata Gupta 30) Namitha A Kumar
31) Rolla Das 32) Sanam Roohi
33) Soundarya Iyer 34) Hema Thakur
35) Nalini N S 36) Chetan B Singai
37) Meera H R 38) Shaurabh Anand
39) Sanket S Kulkarni 40) Shankar R
41) Shatarupa Bhattacharyya 42) Naresh Keerthi
43) Nimisha Agarwal 44) Samiksha Bajpai
45) Rashmi M 46) Priyam Laxmi B
47) Nishant M Srinivasaiah 48) Anamika Ajay
49) B R Guruprasad 50) Ankita Rathi
51) Murli Murti 52) Priya Gupta
53) Krupa Rajangam 54) Savitha Suresh Babu
55) Varun S Bhatta 56) Anupama Mahajan
57) Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan 58) Shyam Hari
59) Aditi Kathpalia 60) S Siddharth


Doctoral Theses