22) Promotion with tenure as Associate Professor, University of Luxembourg, 11/2022
21) Young Leader at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Science, Technology and Society Forum, Kyoto, Japan 10/2022
20) Winner of the FNR-Scientific Image Competition, Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg, 2022
19) AUDACITY Grantee and Member of the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Luxembourg, 2020
18) Selected as Early Career Star In Liquid Crystals of the Decade (2010-2020), Crystals Ed. Team, 2020
17) ATTRACT Starting Investigator Grant, Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg, 07/2017
16) Young Scientists and the Future: Documentaries by NATURE (Science from the ivory tower) 09/2015
15) 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Interdisciplinary Sciences, Lindau, Germany, 07/2015
(upon nomination by the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization)
14) Invited Young Scientist: Discover Research in Baden Württemberg, BW-i, Germany, 07/2015
13) Glenn H. Brown Prize, International Liquid Crystal Society, 2014
12) Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship, Human Frontiers in Science Program, 2014 - 2017
11) DFG Research Fellowship, German Science Foundation, 2014 - 2016 (gratefully declined/retracted)
10) Global Young Scientists Summit, National Research Foundation Singapore, 2014 (gratefully declined due to time constraints)
9) Berliner-Ungewitter Prize, University of Göttingen, 2013
8) Springer Thesis Award for outstanding doctoral thesis, 2013
7) Outstanding doctoral research award, Convocation of the University of Göttingen, 2013
6) summa cum laude for PhD thesis, Faculty of Physics, University of Göttingen, 12/2012
5) ITN 'HIERARCHY' Fellowship, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, 2009 - 2012
4) Invited internship to Erlangen, Germany, 05/2007 - 07/2007
3) Merit-cum-Means scholarship, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 2003 - 2007
2) Certificate of Excellence in community service, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 2006 and 2007
1) Amiable Leadership Award of the class of 1999, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Deoghar, 1999