The CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute is amongst one of the constituent research institutes of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi. Originally set up as the National Botanic Gardens (NBG) by the State Government of Uttar Pradesh. Applications are invited from enthusiastic, innovative and young Indian researchers having excellent academic record and proven scientific achievements to fill up the following scientific positions.

Details of Vacancies

Post: Principal Scientist

Post code & Area : S-01 Area: Plant Transformation/ Tissue Culture (Lateral level post)
Pay level in pay matrix / No. of post(s)/ reservation : 13 ; 01 post Unreserved (UR)
Age limit : not exceeding 45 years
Essential educational qualifications & experience : Ph.D. in any science subject in the area of Plant Transformation/Tissue Culture followed by 03 years experience in the relevant area.
Desirable : Applicants should have good experience of plant tissue culture, genetic transformation and greenhouse practices, phenotypic analysis and plant molecular biology to characterize transgenic plants and regulation and expression of genes in plants as evidenced by publication(s)/patent(s).
Job specification : To plan and execute research on conservation of economically important plants and elite plant germplasm, their mass propagation; in vitro genetic manipulation, screening and characterization of transgenics and application of biotechnological techniques for plant improvement.

Post: Senior Scientist

Post code & Area : S-02 Area: Pharmacognosy (Lateral level post)
Pay level in pay matrix / No. of post(s)/ reservation : 12 ; 01 post Unreserved (UR)
Age limit : not exceeding 37 years
Essential educational qualifications & experience : Ph.D. in any science subject in the area of Pharmacognosy/ Chemotaxonomy followed by 02 years experience in the relevant area
Desirable : The candidate should have experience of collection of medicinal plants from the wild, quality control of raw materials, monographic studies, chemotaxonomic studies of medicinal plants, and herbal drug development. The claims must be supported by publications/patents in the above-mentioned areas.
Job specification : The selected candidate is expected to take up monographic and chemotaxonomic studies for identification of Quality planting/raw materials (QPM/QRM), herbal product development, and handling of instruments like HPLC, HPTLC, GCMS-MS

Scientist

Post code & Area : S-03(a) Area: Plant Breeding (Entry level)
Pay level in pay matrix / No. of post(s)/ reservation : 11 ; 01 post Reserved for SC
Age limit : not exceeding 37 years
Essential educational qualifications & experience : Ph.D. (Submitted) in any science subject in the area of Plant breeding
Desirable : The candidate should have experience in the area of conventional breeding/ marker assisted breeding / QTL mapping /mutation breeding/genetic manipulation of economically important plants/ medicinal plants /floriculture crops. Work experience in development of quality planting material, plant variety development and release, and improvement of quality traits in plants will have added advantage. The claims must be supported by publications/patents/new variety in the abovementioned areas.
Job specification : To undertake trait specific breeding for genetic improvement of economically important medicinal plants, non-traditional crops, and floriculture crops/ plants.

Scientist

Post code & Area : S-03(b) Area: Plant Breeding (Entry level)
Pay level in pay matrix / No. of post(s)/ reservation : 11 ; 01 post Reserved for EWS
Age limit : not exceeding 32 years
Essential educational qualifications & experience : Ph.D. (Submitted) in any science subject in the area of Plant breeding
Desirable : The candidate should have experience in the area of conventional breeding/ marker assisted breeding / QTL mapping /mutation breeding/genetic manipulation of economically important plants/ medicinal plants /floriculture crops. Work experience in development of quality planting material, plant variety development and release, and improvement of quality traits in plants will have added advantage. The claims must be supported by publications/patents/new variety in the abovementioned areas.
Job specification : To undertake trait specific breeding for genetic improvement of economically important medicinal plants, non-traditional crops, and floriculture crops/ plants.

Scientist

Post code & Area : S-03(c) Area: Plant Breeding (Entry level)
Pay level in pay matrix / No. of post(s)/ reservation : 11 ; 01 post Unreserved (UR)
Age limit : not exceeding 32 years
Essential educational qualifications & experience : Ph.D. (Submitted) in any science subject in the area of Plant breeding
Desirable : The candidate should have experience in the area of conventional breeding/ marker assisted breeding / QTL mapping /mutation breeding/genetic manipulation of economically important plants/ medicinal plants /floriculture crops. Work experience in development of quality planting material, plant variety development and release, and improvement of quality traits in plants will have added advantage. The claims must be supported by publications/patents/new variety in the abovementioned areas.
Job specification : To undertake trait specific breeding for genetic improvement of economically important medicinal plants, non-traditional crops, and floriculture crops/ plants.

Scientist

Post code & Area : S-04 Area: Pharmacology (Entry Level)
Pay level in pay matrix / No. of post(s)/ reservation : 11 ; 01 post Unreserved (UR)
Age limit : not exceeding 32 years
Essential educational qualifications & experience : Ph.D. (Submitted) in any science subject in the area of Pharmacology/Drug delivery systems
Desirable : The candidate should have experience of pharmacological studies on animal models, mechanism(s) of action, pharmacokinetics studies and drug delivery systems for herbal drug development. The claims must be supported by publications/patents/products in the above-mentioned areas.
Job specification : The selected candidate is expected to take up pharmacological and pharmacokinetics studies for herbal products, and herbal product development

Scientist

Post code & Area : S-05 Area: Information & Communication Technology (Entry Level)
Pay level in pay matrix / No. of post(s)/ reservation : 11 ; 01 post Reserved  ST
Age limit : not exceeding 37 years
Essential educational qualifications & experience : M.E. / M.Tech. in Computer Science/ Computer Science & Engineering/Information & Communication Technology/ Information Technology/ Information & Telecommunication Engineering/ Computer Applications OR B.Tech/M.Sc. in any of the above subjects with Post Graduate degree in Intellectual Property Law, (1st class or 60% on an aggregate or equivalent CGPA) OR B.E./B.Tech in any of the above subjects with Advanced Diploma from AcSIR with distinction OR Ph.D. (Submitted) in any of the science/engineering subjects in the area of ICT and related areas.
Desirable : Knowledge and experience in System Administration and computer networking.
Job specification : The selected candidate is expected to take charge of the System and Network Administration at the institute level, which includes installation, configuration and maintenance of software / systems hardware, network hardware / firmware, maintenance of network servers, development and updation of website, VPN gateways, intrusion detection systems, e-mail facilities and other IT related infrastructure.

Scientist

Post code & Area : S-06 Area: Breeding of Ornamental Plants (Entry Level)
Pay level in pay matrix / No. of post(s)/ reservation : 11 ; 01 post Reserved for OBC (Backlog vacancy)
Age limit : not exceeding 35 years
Essential educational qualifications & experience : Ph.D. (submitted) in any science subject in the area of Plant Breeding/ Plant Genetics
Desirable : Specialization in breeding and improvement of ornamental plants, and/or applications of biotechnological tools for plant improvement as evidenced by high quality research publications, and varieties released.
Job specification : To work in projects related to genetic improvement of ornamentals and flowering plants using conventional and molecular breeding approaches.

Scientist

Post code & Area : S-07(a) Area : Floriculture/ Landscaping/ Urban Gardening (Entry Level)
Pay level in pay matrix / No. of post(s)/ reservation : 11 ; 01 post Reserved for SC
Age limit : not exceeding 37 years
Essential educational qualifications & experience : Ph.D. (Submitted) in any science subject in the area of Floriculture/Landscaping/ Urban Gardening
Desirable : Research work in ornamental crops / floricultural crops with focus on development of new varieties, and DUS testing. Experience in preparation and execution of landscape/ plant house plans. Good publications and released varieties.
Job specification : Floriculture crop germplasm collection, characterization, and maintenance; development of new varieties of ornamental crops. Preparation and execution of garden/landscape plans including drawings/ design.

Scientist

Post code & Area : S-07(b) Area : Floriculture/ Landscaping/ Urban Gardening (Entry Level)
Pay level in pay matrix / No. of post(s)/ reservation : 11 ; 01 post Unreserved (UR)
Age limit : not exceeding 32 years
Essential educational qualifications & experience : Ph.D. (Submitted) in any science subject in the area of Floriculture/Landscaping/ Urban Gardening
Desirable : Research work in ornamental crops / floricultural crops with focus on development of new varieties, and DUS testing. Experience in preparation and execution of landscape/ plant house plans. Good publications and released varieties.
Job specification : Floriculture crop germplasm collection, characterization, and maintenance; development of new varieties of ornamental crops. Preparation and execution of garden/landscape plans including drawings/ design.

Scientist

Post code & Area : S-08(a) Area : Ecology /Environmental Science/ Environmental Engineering (Entry Level)
Pay level in pay matrix / No. of post(s)/ reservation : 11 ; 01 post Unreserved (UR)
Age limit : not exceeding 32 years
Essential educational qualifications & experience : Ph.D. (Submitted) in any science subject in the area of Ecology/Chemical Ecology /Environmental Science/Environmental Engineering/GIS/ Remote Sensing/ Environmental Modelling/Artificial Intelligence
Desirable : Research work in bio-remediation of soil, air and water pollution with molecular and chemical approaches; Expertise and experience in Remote Sensing, GIS, Chemical ecology and environmental modelling.
Job specification : To carry out assessment of environmental quality/remediation, microbe-assisted phytoremediation, green house gas emission, toxicity and tolerance responses of plants to pollutions. Artificial Intelligence/GIS based studies, Chemical ecology and environmental modelling.

Scientist

Post code & Area : S-09 Area : Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Entry Level)
Pay level in pay matrix / No. of post(s)/ reservation : 11 ; 01 post Reserved for OBC
Age limit : not exceeding 35 years
Essential educational qualifications & experience : Ph.D. (Submitted) in any science subject in the area of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Desirable : Research experience in bioprospection, separation and characterization of plant metabolites with knowledge of handling sophisticated analytical equipment.
Job specification : To undertake R&D activities in phyto- chemistry, isolation, purification and characterization of plant metabolites, bio-prospection for product development.

Scientist

Post code & Area : S-10 Area : Cryptogamic Botany (Entry Level)
Pay level in pay matrix / No. of post(s)/ reservation : 11 ; 01 post Reserved for ST
Age limit : not exceeding 37 years
Essential educational qualifications & experience : Ph.D. (Submitted) in any science subject in the area of Cryptogamic Botany
Desirable : Taxonomy, germplasm collection, documentation, conservation, bioprospection and characterization of lower plants. Experience of working in Bryophytes is desirable.
Job specification : Field surveys for collection and identification, taxonomic studies, bioprospection, conservation, and characterization lower plants, particularly Bryophytes.

Scientist

Post code & Area : S-11(a) Area : Analytical Chemistry (Entry Level)
Pay level in pay matrix / No. of post(s)/ reservation : 11 ; 01 post Reserved for EWS
Age limit : not exceeding 32 years
Essential educational qualifications & experience : Ph.D. (Submitted) in any science subject in the area of Analytical Chemistry
Desirable : Experience of handling sophisticated analytical equipment for bioprospection, separation of plant proteins, plant metabolites and characterization of recombinant proteins.
Job specification : To undertake R&D activities in plant analytical chemistry, characterization of plant metabolites and industrially important molecules, compounds and maintenance of sophisticated analytical equipment.

Scientist

Post code & Area : S-11(b) Area: Analytical Chemistry (Entry Level)
Pay level in pay matrix / No. of post(s)/ reservation : 11 ; 01 post Reserved for PwBD -Hearing Handicapped (Backlog Vacancy)
Age limit : not exceeding 42 years
Essential educational qualifications & experience : Ph.D. (Submitted) in any science subject in the area of Analytical Chemistry
Desirable : Experience of handling sophisticated analytical equipment for bioprospection, separation of plant proteins, plant metabolites and characterization of recombinant proteins.
Job specification : To undertake R&D activities in plant analytical chemistry, characterization of plant metabolites and industrially important molecules, compounds and maintenance of sophisticated analytical equipment.

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTION

Pay level in pay matrix/ Pay matrix
Principal Scientist : 13 (Rs. 1,23100-2,15900)
Senior Scientist : 12 (Rs. 78,800-2,09200)
Scientist : 11 (Rs. 67,700-2,08700)
Total emoluments (approximate)
Principal Scientist : Rs. 1,92,500 /-
Senior Scientist : Rs. 1,26,500 /-
Scientist : Rs.1,10,000 /-
Total emoluments means approximate total emoluments on pay in pay matrix including House Rent Allowance as admissible in class ‘Y’ City.