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.

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§ 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.