About Us

ISAS, the Indian Society of Analytical Scientists, is a premier scientific body in the country with the sole objective of providing a nodal forum for multidisciplinary Sciences, Technology, R&D, Academia, and Industry to reap the benefits of new Research and Developments for the common populace.

The Society was established in 1983 at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre as its headquarters, nearly four decades ago, and has over 3000+ members with 10 chapters spread across a wide part of the country. Since its inception, the Society has been involved in realizing the pivotal objective of disseminating science from the grassroots. During the past 40 years, the Society, a professional body of analytical scientists, has been engaged in assessing and analyzing the impact of analytical sciences in almost every walk of life, employing the latest state-of-the-art analytical techniques, including on-site analytical techniques like LIBS. With this objective in view, the Society has organized 18 Analytical Science Congresses (annually one), over 45 national and international conferences on various relevant topics of interest to the scientific community, keeping the metamorphosis of analysis in mind. These conferences were very well attended by leading professionals from India and abroad. Besides, a large number of workshops, seminars, invited talks, and several student-based activities such as quizzes, essay writing, and debate competitions, etc., were also organized by the Society.

ISAS has organized more than 38 Conferences and 78 webinars to commemorate Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, and an e-book titled “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav – a few excerpts” was released. The Society publishes the Journal of ISAS, an open-access, peer-reviewed, quarterly e-Journal, free of charge (for both authors and readers) with DOIs, to bring research articles related to analytical and allied fields such as process development, instrumentation, statistical analysis, environmental analysis, and management to light. The Society also publishes its e-newsletter. The Society has instituted various awards such as Lifetime Achievement awards, Awards of Excellence, Aatmanirbhara awards, etc., for outstanding Scientists, besides Fellowships of ISAS.