PPISR is divided into the following academic departments:

1. Biological sciences: Maliology; medicinal extractions from endophytic fungi, etc.
2. Materials sciences: catalysis, mesoporous materials, photocatalysis, synthesis of laser materials, characterization and application of crystalline and amorphous solids, plastics, zeolites, nanomaterials etc.
3. Theoretical sciences: Many-body physics, nanoscience; quantum information/computation, foundations of quantum mechanics.