Think of the teachers you still remember. The ones who stayed after class, challenged your thinking, saw possibility before you did, and asked questions that stayed with you long after you left the classroom.
At IIT Bombay, teachers do more than teach a subject. They shape how students think, question, create and imagine what might be possible. Years later, their influence lives on in the work we do, the questions we ask and the possibilities we pursue.
That commitment to shaping minds continues at every stage of a faculty member’s journey. For some, it is the opportunity to establish a laboratory, pursue an ambitious research programme and build the foundations of an academic career while teaching and mentoring the next generation.
For others, it is recognition of an established body of scholarship, research, teaching and mentorship, and the freedom to take that work even further while continuing to shape students, researchers and their fields.
IIT Bombay’s faculty initiatives support both.
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It might have been a question asked at exactly the right moment. A professor who demanded another attempt. Someone who opened a laboratory door, challenged an assumption or saw an ability the student had not yet recognised.
Years later, those moments remain. Because education is remembered not only through what we learnt, but through the people who changed the way we thought.
The Young Faculty Fellowship supports promising young academics at an important stage in their IIT Bombay journey.
It provides resources and research support that can help emerging faculty establish their work, explore ambitious ideas and build the foundations of careers that may influence their disciplines for decades
A Chair Professorship represents a distinguished academic recognition at IIT Bombay.
It recognises accomplished faculty for the scholarship, leadership and contribution they bring to their fields, while providing sustained support for the work still ahead
For those who choose to establish or support a Chair, it also offers an enduring association with academic excellence and the knowledge created through it
One faculty member may be beginning an extraordinary academic journey. Another may already have spent decades expanding the boundaries of a discipline.
Both represent something fundamental to IIT Bombay: the belief that exceptional people, given the freedom to think ambitiously, can change what becomes possible.
This Teachers’ Day, celebrate the faculty who make that possible.
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