Awards/Achievements
§ Review Editor for Frontiers in Soft Matter.
§ Awarded a Core Research Grant (CRG) of the SERB as Principal Investigator by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
§ Visiting professor Award by CNRS, France.
§ Awarded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence for “A HIGH-QUALITY PROJECT PROPOSAL” by European Comission (2017).
§ INSPIRE Faculty Award, DST, Govt. of India, (2017) in Materials Science.
§ Springer Thesis International Award 2014 (awarded to the best PhD theses of the year in Physics Worldwide, Springer Theses – the “best of the best”)
§ Postdoc research fellowship at Utrecht University, 2016
§ CSIR-SRF Extension (2014) (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Senior Research Fellowship Extension)
§ CSIR-SRF (2010-2013) (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Senior Research Fellowship). Most prestigious fellowship for research scholars in India.
§ CSIR-JRF (2008-2010) (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Junior Research Fellowship). Most prestigious fellowship for research scholars in India.
§ National Eligibility Test (NET) in Physics, conducted jointly by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and University Grants Commission (UGC), Govt. of India (2007).
§ Merit Cum Means scholarship by Jawaharlal Nehru University during MSc
§ Dr. Chaitanya Murali scholarship for meritorious students in Post Graduation (2006-2008)
§ Best Poster award for presenting the poster entitled “Aging and Slow dynamics in Nanoclay dispersions” in National conference on Supramolecular Chemistry: from Molecules to materials, SPS, JNU, New Delhi, India.
§ Young Researcher award and free participation in ICONSAT-2012 from January 20-23, 2012, Hyderabad, India.
§ Awarded JNU grant for attending Julich Soft Matter Days 2012, Nov 13-16, by Institute of complex systems, Julich, Germany.
§ Awarded Travel grant and participation fee by Institute of complex systems for “Julich Soft Matter Days 2012”, Nov 13-16, in Julich, Germany.
§ Awarded Silver Medals in Physics, Mathematics and English subjects for best performance in the University level in BSc.
§ Committee Member of IC-MSMME conference, 2017.
http://msmme.org/a/General_Info_/Latest_News/2017/0612/16.html
§ Editorial Board Member for Colloid and Surface Science
Other Competitive Exams Cleared at National level:
JEST: 92.67 percentile in Physics (February 2008), GATE
NET: Awarded CSIR-JRF in Physics (Dec 2007), CSIR-SRF (Ext) (2014)
IIT JAM: Qualified (2006)
Reviewer : Nature Communications, Langmuir, Soft Matter, PRE, Journal of Physical Chemistry, etc.