Qualified UGC MH-SET 2021 in the subject Physical Sciences.
Awarded Dr. D. S. Kothari Post doctoral fellowship in Physical Sciences in the area of Energy Studies (Aug. 2016- July 2019).
Awarded DST-DFG Award for participation in the Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Physics Lindau, Germany, July 1-July 6, 2012. Also invited by DFG for a visit to premier research institutes in Germany from July 7- July 14, 2012.
Awarded CSIR-Senior Research Fellowship in the Transdisciplinary Research area of Nano-Bio-Photonics in 2010.
Awarded participation in Winter College on Optics and Energy from Feb. 8-19 2010 by The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.
Junior Research Fellowship in the project entitled “Design of optical logic gates with bacteriorhodopsin,” sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, 2009.
Junior Research Fellowship in the project entitled “All optical control of ultra slow and superluminal light in proteins and its application to quantum computing,” sponsored by University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, 2009.
Awarded the IEEE-LEOS Outstanding Student Paper Award with Certificate of Excellence and a Cash Prize of Rs. 10,000/- for paper entitled, “All-optical computing with bacteriorhodopsin coated microcavities”, at the 9th International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics-PHOTONICS-2008, organized by IIT-Delhi, at the Indian Habitat World Convention Centre, New Delhi, Dec. 14-17, 2008.