IIT Delhi, University of Queensland set up permanent office for PhD programme

The PhD programme under UQIDAR will be utilized to research various topics such as Resilient Environment, Technology for Tomorrow, Healthy ageing, feeding the World and Transforming societies.

The UQ-IITD Academy of Research (UQIDAR) set up by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Delhi) and University of Queensland (UQ), Australia inaugurated its new permanent office at the institute’s campus. According to official reports, the office will become a one-stop point for the students seeking admission into the PhD programmes and help the existing students. UQIDAR aims at enrolling at least 300 students in the next three years with at least 70 students in each year in its two-year-old joint PhD programme. So far, more than 65 students are already enrolled in the programme. Both UQ and IIT Delhi professors will be supervising the students studying under this programme.

While inaugurating UQIDAR’s permanent office at IIT Delhi, Professor V Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi said, “IIT Delhi lays great emphasis on 3 Is that is Internationalization, Interdisciplinary Research and Industry connect. Our collaboration with the University of Queensland, Australia is going great guns and has all three elements. UQIDAR is attracting some of the top talents and many of these students are doing cutting edge research on problems of global importance”.