Academic Awards and Honors:

• 1995: National Merit Scholarship

• 1998: National Eligibility Test (NET) under CSIR

• 2000: L. K. Panda award (First position in Post M. Sc.), Institute of Physic, Bhubaneswar, India.

• 2003: Best Poster award in International Conference on Nano Science and Technology (ICONSAT), December 17-20, 2003, Kolkata, India.

• The Indian Physical Society
• Electron Microscopy Society of India

Conference, Workshop, School etc. attended:

• SERC school at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata, India from Jan. 9 - 30, 2000 on "Surfaces, Interfaces and Clusters''

• SCILAB (workshop on computer simulation), Dec. 4 - 9, 2000, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India.

• Solid State Physics Symposium, Dec. 26 - 30, 2001, BARC, Mumbai, India.

• International conference on Physics at Surfaces and Interfaces (PSI 2002), March 4 - 8, 2002, Puri, India.

• International conference on Atomic Collisions in Solids (ICACS 20), Jan. 19 -24, 2003, Puri, India.

• International Conference on Nano Science and Technology (ICONSAT 2003), Dec.17 - 20, 2003, Kolkata, India

• INDO-US Workshop on Nano-scale Materials: From Science to Technology, April 5-8, 2004, Puri, INDIA

• International Conference on Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application, Nov. 4-6, 2004, Kolkata, INDIA.
  

• Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials XV, 2 –5 April 2007, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK.
  

• International conference on Physics at Surfaces and Interfaces (PSI 2009), Feb 23 - 29, 2009, Puri, INDIA.

Talks delivered:

• Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India on 21st Feb., 2003

• International Conference on Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application, Kolkata, India on 6th Nov., 2004

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (TPSC), Kharagpur, India on 10^th Nov., 2004

• Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany on 9th Feb., 2006

• Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India on 21st March, 2006

• Dept. of Engineering, The University of Hull, Hull, UK on 22nd June, 2006

• Dept. of Physics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India 12th Sept., 2006

• Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar, India 13th Sept., 2006

• Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India, 14th Sept., 2006

• Paul-Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics, Berlin, Germany, 23rd Jan., 2007

• Conference on Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials XV, 2 –5 April 2007, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Kanpur, India on 26^th June, 2007

• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai on 7^th Feb., 2008

• Seminar-cum-Workshop on “Materials Characterization and Surface Modification in Research and Industry using Ion Accelerators (MICA)” at IOP, Bhubaneswar during March 31 - April 04, 2008.

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India on 4^th Nov., 2008. 

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India on 27^th Nov., 2008.

• Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Guwahati, India on 13^th Feb., 2009.

• Invited talk on “A Brief Introduction to Nanotechnology” in YCPLS, 1^st January, 2010, CMERI, Durgapur, India.

• Invited talk on “Growth and Characterization of high –efficiency III-V/Si Solar Cell” in Indo -Australian Solar Energy Workshop, 9-10^th  February, 2010, Amity Institute of Renewable & Alternative Energy, Amity University, Noida – 201303, Uttar Pradesh, India.

• Invited talk on “Molecular-beam epitaxy of Sb-based quantum dots and superlattices” in Alumni Day Celebration, 3^rd September, 2010, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India.

• Invited talk on “Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Window for the World of Nanoscience” in UGC sponsored State Level Seminar on “Nanomaterials: Synthesis and Applications”, organized by the Department of Physics, Ramananda College, Bishnupur, held on 8^th September, 2010.

• Oral Presentation on "Ejection of nanoparticles by swift-heavy ions" in JSPS-DST Asian Academic Seminar 2010 held at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India during Monday, November 29 – Saturday, December 4, 2010.

• Oral Presentation on "Growth of indium antimonide quantum dots: a case study" in Internatioanl Conference on Electron Nanoscopy and XXXII Annual Meeting of EMSI held at Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad during July 06-08, 2011.

• Invited talk on “TEM Sample Preparation for Materials Science” in a “Workshop on Electron Microscopy” jointly organized by IOP and IIT, Bhubaneswar, held on November 23-25, 2011.

• Invited talk on “Transmission Electron Microscopy: Eye for the World of Nanoscience” in “National Seminar on Recent Trends on Novel Materials”, organized by the Dept. of Physics & Technophysics, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, held on November 29-30, 2011.
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• Invited talk on “Electron microscopy and its application in Material Sciences/Chemistry/Nanotechnology” in a “Workshop on Electron Microscopy and its Application”, organized by Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, held on February 28-29, 2012.