Awards and Funding

✔ Young International Scientist - Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011)

✔ CNPq-Brazil visiting fellowship to Federal University of Lavras Brazil 2013

✔ CSIR-Raman Research Fellowship (2014-15) - Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany.

✔ INSA-Indo-Australia EMCR Fellowship (2016-17) to the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

✔ Awarded NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards 2022 under category of Environmentally Sound Sustainable Development.

✔ Prof. B.N. Johri Award on Microbial diversity (Biannual) by the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI) for the year 2022.

✔ Guest Editor: Special Issue in Applied and Environmental Soil Science “Microbial Diversity-Sustaining Earth and Industry” Hindawi

✔ Editor: Frontiers in Microbiology, Research Topic “Actinobacteria in special and extreme habitats: diversity, function roles and environmental adaptations”.

✔ Associate Editor (2019-2021): International Microbiology Official Journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology (Springer-Nature)

✔ Editorial Member (Since 2019): Microbiological Research, Elsevier.