We are delighted to welcome Prof Sanjay K Singh, @IITIOfficial, as a speaker in FORCE-IICS 2026 at Mussoorie. His research focuses on design and development of new and efficient catalysts (organometallic complexes and metal nanoparticles) and materials for hydrogen production and storage, carbon capture and conversion, and biomass/plastic transformation to fuels and value-added products.

We are delighted to welcome Prof Garima Agrawal, @Garima_IITMandi, @IIT_Mandi, as a speaker in FORCE-IICS 2026 at Mussoorie. Her research group is interested in the synthesis of novel micro/nanomaterials and their use in designing interactive materials for applications such as catalysis, controlled release, plant care in agricultural applications, active packaging, water purification, functional coatings, biomaterials, drug delivery, and tissue engineering.

We are delighted to welcome Prof Prasenjit Ghosh, @iitbombay, as a speaker in FORCE-IICS 2026 at Mussoorie. His research interest encompasses broad areas of inorganic, organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry with emphasis on chemical catalysis and biomimetic active-site modelling studies. His group uses engineered small molecules and metal complexes for chemical catalysis, biomedical applications, and non-N-heterocyclic carbene chemistry. Looking forward for an interactive lecture.

We are delighted to welcome Dr @KumarVanka1, @csir_ncl, as a speaker in FORCE-IICS 2026 at Mussoorie. His group works in the area of theoretical and computational chemistry, employing full quantum mechanical methods such as density functional theory (DFT) to understand processes occurring in inorganic systems. His lab also develops methods for doing effective stochastic simulations of chemical systems.

We are delighted to welcome Prof Jagannath Mondal @Jmondal_tifrh, @TIFRH_buzz , as a speaker in FORCE-IICS 2026 at Mussoorie. His group uses novel techniques of computer simulation to provide key insights into diverse topics of biological interest. We use a multi-scale approach in developing models of diverse resolution to address questions of biological and chemical processes. These methods of choice involve Molecular Dynamics simulation, Monte Carlo simulation and Brownian Dynamics simulations.

We are delighted to welcome Prof Mohammed Ali Haider, @iitdelhi, and Vice-Provost of Research and External Engagement at IIT Delhi - Abu Dhabi, @IITDAD123, as a speaker in FORCE-IICS 2026 at Mussoorie. His research group is interested in developing catalytic and electro-catalytic materials for various applications, including energy storage devices, fuel cells, biorenewable energy, climate change, and sustainability. His group also employs combined experimental and theoretical approaches to design novel materials aided by machine learning and density functional theory simulations.

We are delighted to welcome Prof M Sankar, @iitroorkee, as a speaker in FORCE-IICS 2026 at Mussoorie. His research is centered around synthesis and studies of porphyrinoids, coordination chemistry, supramolecular assemblies, catalysis, & photovoltaics.

We are delighted to welcome Prof Srabanti Chaudhury @srabantichaudh2, @IISERPune, as a speaker in FORCE-IICS 2026 at Mussoorie. Her laboratory works in the areas of single molecule enzyme/nanoparticle catalysis, DNA-protein interactions, polymer translocation, and conformational properties and self assembly of block copolymers.

We are delighted to welcome Prof Jürgen Seibel, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany, as a speaker in FORCE-IICS 2026 at Mussoorie. His present research interests are focused on bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology including the development of chemical and enzymatic syntheses, biocatalysis, protein engineering, drug delivery and glycosciences.

We are delighted to welcome Prof Kallol Ray @HumboldtUni as a speaker in FORCE-IICS 2026 at Mussoorie. His research group targets unraveling of the mechanistic details of small molecule activation (O2, H2O, CO2) for redox processes at enzyme like catalysts with transition metal centers e.g. Fe, Cu, Co, Mn and Ni.

Announcing #FORCE2026 in Mussoorie! Emphasis on excellent interdisciplinary science and engineering focused on complex problems of global impact and scale. Conceptualize, create, and collaborate with the best minds. The Queen of the Hills awaits your participation!

Wishing you all a very happy new year 2026! Look forward to celebrating the spirit of science, technology and innovation with all of you - Team FORCE-IICS

Bharat Talent Cloud as Exponential Human-Capital Strategy. We expand our idea of Bharat Talent Alliance into a structural concept of Bharat Talent Cloud: a national architecture designed to consolidate India’s scattered talent pools into an interconnected, future-ready ecosystem. We argue that talent availability often outweighs mineral wealth, manufacturing capacity or capital flows in knowledge economy, making talent a new form of currency that will power future innovation, productivity and competitiveness. India must treat talent as a strategic national asset. Talent sovereignty and circularity are also proposed as systems where talent is valued as a natural resource and skills are continually renewed, repurposed and redeployed to prevent stagnation. We propose formation of Bharat Talent Cloud as an embedded national talent architecture linking schools, universities, research institutions, industry clusters, start-ups, public-sector enterprises and the Indian diaspora into one interconnected ecosystem aligned with national missions. This architecture would comprise of Talent Grid, Bharat Stay, Bharat Return, Talent Trading and Talent Mining as crucial sub-systems to support India Innovation Corridors. Exponential gains will require exponential thinking. We must create structured exponential pathways for talent-driven human-capital strategy at state and national level. thehindubusinessline.com/opi… @PMOIndia @EduMinOfIndia @myogioffice @PrinSciAdvGoI @karandi65 @vipin_sondhi @Sandeep_1966

First announcement of WOMEN FORCE Symposium 2026 at @iitgn. This meeting will focus on top quality research and high end innovations from women researchers in science and engineering. Prof K Sivapriya of @ChemistryIitgn will Chair this meeting. Look forward to exciting lectures, invigorating poster sessions and engaging discussions. Power. Passion. Progress. Come. Join. Us. @ForceConference