Awards

D. D. Joshi Best Thesis Award

In order to encourage and bring together the next generation of researchers in the board field of Evolutionary Biology, we are initiating the D. D. Joshi Best Thesis Award. Its purpose is to highlight the excellent work being conducted in our country in this field. The first award will be given in November 2025 at ISEB6 meeting. The awardee will be appreciated with a silver plaque and citation. They with receive a 5 year membership to society and a invitation to attend the next ISEB meeting and share their work in the form of an oral presentation.

Application eligibility

PhD thesis that has been defended in the timescale Jan to Dec 2024.
Work can be theoretical or empirical (lab or field) and should fall within the broad areas of evolution, ecology, behaviour, organismal biology or systematics.
Applications can be made by members and non-members of ISEB.
The student should be a PhD or Integrated PhD student, an Indian national, and registered for PhD at an Indian university/institution.
As long as the PhD thesis defence is officially deemed successful within the stipulated timescale a candidate can apply. The date on which the degree is actually awarded will not be a considered.

Selection procedure

A selection committee will be created by ISEB for considering the applications. They will carefully examine the quality of the submission and invite applicants to make a presentation of their findings. Only one candidate if any will be selected in each round of selection. The decision of the committee will be final.

Application

Submission can be done here. shortly.

Submission deadline 15th August 2025

About Prof. D D Joshi:

Prof. D. D. Joshi was a mathematical statistician. He was an extraordinary teacher and mentor deeply committed to the betterment of students in India, especially in the decades following independence.

He was educated at Hindu College, Delhi University, and then at the University of Paris, where he obtained his Doctorate. Subsequently, he worked at ISI Kolkata, Hindu College, Punjab University, and Agra University. He held visiting professorships at Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad and at the University of Leicester, UK.

He developed a conceptual framework for understanding the structure of different population ecological and population genetic models. He also worked extensively on experimental design, coding theory, estimation and operations research. These important advances coming from the newly independent India were well recognized internationally. He was invited to present his work at the World Population Conference in Belgrade in 1965, together with other speakers in this conference like Motoo Kimura, Theodosius Dobzhansky and P. C. Mahalanobis.

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