12. Prestigious ERC (European Research Council) grant for frontier research, 2015
11. Research featured in UK’s National Newspapers (The Guardian, Daily Echo) 2013
10. Raymond and Beverly Sackler Senior Research Fellowship by Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2011
9. EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK) Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship, 2010
8. Best Poster Prize at 42nd IUPAC Congress, Glasgow, UK, 2009
7. Ronald Belcher Memorial Lectureship (Belcher Award) for 2008 by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
6. Messel Bursar of Society for Chemical Industry, UK in 2008.
5. Best Poster Award for 2007 in the annual competition for final year PhD students of the School of Chemistry, University of Southampton.
4. ‘Science as Art’ – 2nd prize winner at the Materials Research Society (MRS) – 2007 spring meeting, San Francisco, USA.
3. ORSAS scholarship for international students of outstanding merit and research potential by the United Kingdom government for pursuing PhD at University of Southampton.
2. Best Paper Award at Materials Research Symposium 2005, IIT Bombay, India.
1. Proficiency Prize at IIT Kanpur for the best thesis work in the Integrated M. Sc. program in chemistry for the year 1998.