Welcome to the Prime Minister's Research Fellows (PMRF) portal of IIT Madras!

The PMRF Scheme offered by IITM has been designed to encourage and provide a best for improving the quality of research. With attractive fellowships, the scheme seeks to attract the best talent into research thereby realizing the vision of development through innovation. The candidates will be selected through a rigorous selection process and their performance will be reviewed suitably through a national convention. 

Oct 26, 2023: Results of Direct and Lateral Entry Channels -- Aug 2023 round (Cycle 11) -- Final list of selected candidates is available here.

Mar 22, 2023, 10 pm : Results of Direct and Lateral Entry Channels - Dec 2022 round (Cycle 10) - Final list of selected candidates is available here.

Jan 13, 2023, 10 am : Notification for Cycle 10 selection of PMRFs has been released by NCC. IITM Madras invites applications from PhD scholars for nominating for direct entry and laterl entry schemes of PMRF for this cycle. Deadline for applications to institute is Jan 16, 2023, 5 pm. Please check the mailing list for PhD scholars for mail from resadmissions@iitm.ac.in for further details.