Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (known as IISERK or IISER KOLKATA) is an public autonomous Research institute in science and education field located in Mohanpur near the town of Kalyani in Nadia, West Bengal, India.

It was established by the Ministry of Education, Government of India in 11 July 2006 and promoted to the status of an Institute of National Importance in 2012 vide the NIT Amendment Act.

The institute hosts the multi-institutional Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India[5] (CESSI) with participating scientists from ISRO and other astronomy institutes and is involved in research associated with national space science missions.

The institute jointly runs the Göttingen-Kolkata: Open shell systems (G-KOSS) in fundamentals of molecular spintronics with University of Göttingen.

[10] Inquivesta sees a footfall of 1000+, and has been visited by artists such as Zakir Khan (comedian), Sapan Verma, Nalayak (band) and Anubhav Singh Bassi.