Awards, Fellowships, Recognition & Service
Awards, Fellowships, Named/Endowment Lectures, International Research Grants:
(1) Elected Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (Elected in 2010; w.e.f. January 2011).
(2) Elected Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (Elected in 2003; w.e.f. January 2004).
(3) Elected Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India, Allahabad (Elected in 2008).
(4) INSA Young Scientist Medal, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (1989).
(5) J.C. Bose National Fellowship, SERB / DST, India (since July 2013).
(6) Elected Member of the Council, the highest decision making body, of the the Indian National Science academy, New Delhi, (2020-2022).
(7) Elected Member of "C6 Commission: Biological Physics" of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), 01 January, 2018-31 December, 2021.
(8) Chairman, National Committee for International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), January 1,2020 - December 31,2023.
(9) Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany (1984-85,1991; several re-invitations after 1991).
(10) JSPS Invitational Fellowship (Visiting Professor), University of Tokyo, Japan (September-October, 2018).
(11) Included in top 2% of the global list of scientists compiled by a team of experts at Stanford University (USA) and published in PLOS Biology, one of the reputed journals (2020).
(12) Dr. Jag Mohan Garg Chair Professor, I.I.T. Kanpur (May, 2011 - April, 2014)
(13) Prof. S. Sampath Chair Professor, I.I.T. Kanpur (March, 2015 - February, 2018).
(14) C.N.R. Rao Lecture, I.I.T. Kanpur, 12 April, 2016
(C.N.R. Rao Lecture Series at IIT Kanpur has been made possible by a generous donation by Bharat Ratna Prof. C.N.R. Rao)
(15) "Distinguished Teacher Award", IIT Kanpur, 5 September (Teacher's Day), 2020.
(This award is given to IIT-K faculty members in recognition of excellence in teaching, the term 'teaching' being taken in its broadest sense.
Every year Teachers' Day is celebrated in India on September 5, the birth anniversary of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the second
president of India, an outstanding teacher and scholar)
(16) Associate Member, ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
(17) Senior Associate, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (01 January 2019 - 31 December 2024).
(18) "National Science Day" Lecture, an Invited "Institute Lecture", delivered at IIT Roorkee on 28 February, 2020.
(Every year "National Science Day" is celebrated in India on 28 February to mark the discovery of "Raman Effect" by Sir C.V. Raman on 28 February 1928;
for this discovery he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930).
(19) Bose Colloquium Lecture, S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (December, 2013).
(20) Indo-German joint Research Project, DFG, Germany, 2002-2004.
Best paper award/selection:
1. Article titled "Modeling stochastic kinetics of molecular machines at multiple levels: from molecules to modules" BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL (Biophysical Society, USA), vol. 104, 2331-2341 (2013) has been selected in "Best of 2013" in Biophysical Journal (published by "Cell Press" on behalf of the "Biophysical Society")):
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Editor of Journals / guest Editor of special issues/papers of Journals:
(1) Member, Editorial Board, European Physical Journal B (2006-2009), Co-published by Springer (Germany), EDP Sciences (France), and Italian Physical Society.
(2) Guest Editor, PHYSICA A (Elsevier) vol. 372, Issue 1 (2006); special issue on "Common Trends in Traffic Systems" (Co-editors: B.K. Chakrabarti and A. Dutta).
(3) Guest Editor, PHYSICA SCRIPTA (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) vol. T106, 5 (2003); special issue on "Unconventional Applications of Statistical Physics" (Co-editors: B.K. Chakrabarti, K. Kaski and J. Kertesz).
(4) Moderator, arXiv (e-print archive of scholarly papers, owned and operated by Cornell University, USA), 2013-.
(5) Guest Editor, PLoS Computational Biology, published by PLoS (Public Library of Science) as an official journal of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) (2014).
Academic Administration and Service to Science Academies, Institutions and Government Agencies:
1. Member, Governing Body, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, (An Autonomous Institute under Department of Science and Technology, Government of India) (November, 2015-October, 2020).
2. Member, Sectional Committee (Physics), Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India (2016-2018).
3. Member, Sectional Committee (Physics), Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India (2013-2015).
4. Convener, Kanpur Local Chapter, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi (April 2015-March 2018).
5. Head (Chair) of the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (May, 2015-April, 2018).
6. Member, Physical Sciences Research Committee, Council of Scientific and Industrial research (CSIR), India
(2004-2007).
7. Affiliate Member, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), 1991.
Invited Reviewer of published Books and Papers:
1. Book review in Physics Today (American Institute of Physics, U.S.A.)
Reviewer of Research papers submitted to International Journals:
Physical Review Letters (APS, U.S.A.), Physical Review E (APS, U.S.A.), Journal of Physics (IOP, U.K.), Europhysics Letters (EPS), European Physical Journal B (EDP/Springer), Biophysical Journal (BPS, U.S.A.), FEBS Journal (Federation of European Biochemical Societies), PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS ONE, Physical Biology (IOP, UK), Journal of Theoretical Biology (Elsevier), Physica A (Elsevier), Journal of Statistical Physics (Springer), Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (IOP, UK), American Journal of Physics (AAPT/AIP, U.S.A.), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE), Ecological Modelling (Elsevier), etc.
Reviewer of Grant Proposals/Fellowship Applications submitted to Funding Agencies:
National Science Foundation (NSF), USA; The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), The Netherlands; International Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Organization, Strasbourg; Department of Science and Technology (DST), India; Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India; United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF), etc.
Reviewer of Research Activities of other Institutes/Universities:
1. Reviewer of research activities of the (i) department of "Chemical, Biological and Macro-molecular Sciences", S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (September, 2013); (ii) department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata (March, 2015); (iii) department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal (March, 2018); (iv) department of Physics, Presidency University, Kolkata (January, 2020).
2. Member of the committee (constituted by JNU) headed by Prof. P.C. Joshi, (i) to assess the progress made by the university in realizing the objectives of the university as enunciated in the first schedule of the university and with special reference to science and society; and (ii) to make recommendations in this regard.
Member of Committees for Faculty Selection/Recruitment:
S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (February, 2011); Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Bhopal (April, 2011); Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Kolkata (May, 2011); Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata (November, 2012); Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Bhopal (March, 2014); Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (February, 2020).
Reviewer of Research Performance of candidates for faculty Selection/Promotion:
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai; Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore; S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata; TIFR Hyderabad center, Hyderabad; Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai; National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Reviewer/Examiner of Ph.D. Thesis:
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai; National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore; Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai; Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, University of Delhi, Delhi; RRCAT, Indore; Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Member of Indian Delegation at:
"Indo –Israeli meeting on frontiers in condensed matter physics, Bangalore (2017).
"4th India-Singapore Joint Physics Symposium", NUS, Singapore, (2011).
"TWIM: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, and Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, Interaction Meeting", Mumbai (2010).
"Indo-Belgian Conference on "Statistical Physics of Small Systems", Chennai (2008).
"Indo-Israeli Conference in Condensed Matter Physics", Zfat, Israel (2008).
"Indo-UK Workshop (sponsored by EPSRC, UK) on Life Science Interface", Bangalore (2005).
"Indo-Israeli workshop on Current Issues in Condensed Matter Physics", Jerusalem, Israel (2002).
"Royal Society-Unilever Indo-UK Forum on Complex Fluids", Issac Newton Institute, Cambridge, U.K. (1996).
"Indo-French Workshop on Instabilities and Patterning in Materials Science", Bangalore (1994).
"Indo-Soviet Symposium on Phase Transitions", Bangalore (1990)
Plenary/Invited Lectures at International Conferences:
(1) Invited Talk, Mini-symposium on "Stochastic Dynamics in Cellular Scale Biology", 8th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics", Beijing, China (August, 2015).
(2) Plenary Lecture, Indo-French Workshop on Mathematical Biology, Bangalore, India (July, 2014).
(3) Bose Colloquium Lecture, S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (December, 2013).
(4) Invited Talk, International Symposium on "Multiscale motility of molecular motors", Max-Planck Institute for Colloids & Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany (September, 2013).
(5) Invited Talk, International Conference "Diffusion Fundamentals V", University of Leipzig, Germany (August, 2013).
(6) Invited Talk, International Seminar on "Large fluctuations in non-equilibrium systems", Dresden, Germany (July, 2011).
(7) Invited Talk, "4th India-Singapore Joint Physics Symposium", NUS, Singapore, (February, 2011).
(8) Invited Talk, "TWIM: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, and Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, Interaction Meeting, Mumbai (December, 2010).
(9) Invited Talk, International Workshop on "Transport in a Cell", Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Columbus, Ohio, USA (April, 2010).
(10) Invited Talk, symposium on "Navigation and Communication-what we can learn from insects", Part of the Program of the Platinum Jubilee Meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (November, 2009).
(11) Invited Talk, WE-Heraeus Summer School on "Steps in Evolution: 150 years after Darwin", Bremen, Germany (July, 2009).
(12) Invited Talk, "Indo-Israeli Conference in Condensed Matter Physics", Zfat, Israel (November, 2008).
(13) Invited Talk, "Indo-Belgian Conference on "Statistical Physics of Small Systems", Chennai (November, 2008).
(14) Plenary Lecture, "ACRI 2008": 8th international conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, Yokohama, Japan (September, 2008).
(15) Invited Talk, "STATPHYS23", 23rd International Conference of International Union of Pure & Applied Physics (IUPAP) on Statistical Physics, Genova, Italy (July, 2007).
(16) Invited Talk, International Workshop ''Common Trends in Traffic: Physical and Computational Models in Transportation Engineering and Biological Sciences'', IIT, Kanpur (February, 2006).
(17) Plenary Lecture, International Conference "Traffic and Granular Flow 2005", Berlin, Germany (October, 2005).
(18) Invited Talk, International Conference on "Complex Networks: Structure, Function and Processes", Kolkata (a Satellite meeting of IUPAP STATPHYS22, Bangalore) (June, 2004).
(19) Invited Talk, International Conference on "Pattern Formation in Nonequilibrium Systems", Kolkata (a Satellite meeting of IUPAP STATPHYS22, Bangalore (July, 2004).
(20) Invited Talk, Indo-Israeli workshop on "Current Issues in Condensed Matter Physics", Jerusalem, Israel (2002).
(21) Invited Lecture, "Gordon Research Conference on Research and Education: Statistical Physics", New Hampshire, USA, (2000).
(22) Invited Talk, International Conference on "Complex Fluids and Monte Carlo Methods", Hong Kong (a Satellite Meeting of IUPAP STATPHYS19, Xiamen, China), (July, 1995).
(23) Invited Talk, symposium on "Aspects of Complexity and Complex Systems", Part of the Program of the Diamond Jubilee Meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (November, 1994).
(24) Invited Lecture series, ``Mini Course'' on Monte Carlo Simulation, Research Workshop on Condensed Matter, ICTP, Trieste, Italy (1989).
Conference: Organizing/Advisory Committees:
1. Secretary, Organizing Committee, the Discussion Meeting on “Dynamical Aspects of Fluid Phases”, New Delhi, January, 1993.
2. Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, “Physics Computing ’96”, the Biennial Conference of European Physical Society (EPS), under the auspicies of the EPS and American Physical Society (APS), Krakow, 1996.
3. Secretary, National Organizing Committee, National Conference on “Magnetic Alloys: Order in Disordered Materials”, I.I.T., Kanpur, 2001.
4. Member, Organizing Committee, International Conference on “Unconventional Applications of Statistical Physics”, Kolkata,
March, 2003.
5. Member, Organizing Committee, “International Conference on Mathematical Biology”, IIT, Kanpur, February, 2004.
6. Member, National Organizing Committee, “STATPHYS22, 22nd International Conference on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics” (IUPAP), Bangalore, July, 2004.
7. Member, Organizing Committee, Statphys Kolkata V, “International Conference on Complex Networks: Structure, Function and Processes”, a Satellite meeting of STATPHYS22, Kolkata, June, 2004.
8. Member, Organizing Committee, “International Conference on Pattern Formation in Nonequilibrium Systems", a Satellite meeting of STATPHYS22, Kolkata, July, 2004.
9. Member, Advisory Committee, “International Conference on Disorder, Complexity and Biology” (DISCOMB04)”, BHU, Varanasi, July, 2004.
10. Convener, Organizing Committee, “National Conference Physics 2005: 100 years after Einstein’s Revolution”, IIT, Kanpur, November, 2005.
11. Chair, Organizing Committee, “International Workshop Common Trends in Traffic Systems: Physical and Computational Models in Transportation Engineering and Biological Sciences”, IIT, Kanpur, February, 2006.
12. Member, Organizing Committee, International Conference “Assembly, Organization and Propulsion in Complex Systems”,
IIT Chennai, February 22-24, 2007.
13. Member, Advisory Committee, “International Conference on Disorder, Complexity and Biology” (DISCOMB09), BHU, Varanasi, January, 2009.
14. Chair, Organizing Committee, ICTS Program on “Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics” (NESP2010), a part of the Golden Jubilee celebration of IIT Kanpur, IIT Kanpur, January 30 - February 08, 2010.
15. Chair, Organizing Committee, International Conference on “Interaction, Instability, Transport & Kinetics: Glassiness & Jamming”,
a part of the Golden Jubilee celebration of IIT Kanpur, IIT Kanpur, February 04-08, 2010.
16. Convener, committee of coordinators of theme topic on “Environment, Health and Life”, IITK REACH Symposium 2010, IIT Kanpur, October 10-12, 2010.