On 16th February 2018, IISER Tirupati has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The University of Newcastle Australia. The MoU was signed by Prof. Kevin Hall, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation) and Prof. K. N. Ganesh, Director, IISER Tirupati.
IISER Tirupati was established in 2015. The University of Newcastle is an Australian public university established in 1965, with its main campus in Callaghan, a suburb of Newcastle. Both the institutes are committed to academic and research excellence. The collaboration between these two institutes will strengthen education and research in future. This MoU will facilitate close collaboration between researchers, and the exchange of students and researchers. It will also help to have joint research proposals and joint PhD students between faculty in the two institutes. Particularly, both the institutes have agreed upon cooperating in the design and development of advanced materials for energy and environment applications.