January 2024: Selected as a member of the prestigious Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS), Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.
July 2023: Our DST INSPIRE project has been awarded with an "Excellent" grade by DST, India
Sept 2021: Received CSIR-Young Scientist Award-2021 in Chemical Sciences at the hands of Hon'ble Vice President of India, Shri Venkaiah Naidu.
July 2020: The research project proposal entitled “Paper-Based Plasmonic Aptamer Linked Immobilized Sorbent Assay (pALISA) for Screening COVID-19 Disease” was selected in one of the top 7% projects for funding (Among top 17 from 250 projects submitted)
September 2020: Invited as an international reviewer for epitch prizes 2020 by Reaxys
December 2019: Invited as an international reviewer for shortlisting candidates for the Reaxys Ph.D. prize 2020
November 2019: Invited as a judge for CBSE Science Exhibition, Chennai Public School, Thirumazhisai, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
January 2019: Invited to join the preliminary selection panel of REAXYS Ph.D. prize 2019 (International)
November 2018: Felicitation by Deepotsav Sanquelim Goa, for excellence in science
October 2018: Selected as a recognized and an outstanding reviewer (among top 10) of Science of the Environment, Elseiver Publishers, Netherlands
July 2018: Invited as a chief guest for the distribution of cheques to the needy and meritorious M.Sc. students, chemistry department faculty and alumni association, Goa University
July 2018: Invited as a chief guest for the second chemistry newsletter release, Dnyanprassarak Mandal's college, Assagaon Goa
April 2018: Selected as a recognized and an outstanding reviewer (among top 10) of Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy journal, Elsevier publisher
February 2018: Invited as a chief guest for the Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan programme (Porvorim, Goa) by Bhartiya Vigyan Parishad
February 2018: Selected for Inspire Faculty Fellowship and research grants from Department of Science and Technology (DST), India
December 2016: Selected for the Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties (ASDF) Global Best Scientific Researcher Award 2016 (International), Michigan, USA
May 2016: The project "Novel Nanozyme Technology for Combating Oxidative Stress Related Disorders" got selected for the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council - Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (BIRAC SRISTI) Appreciation Award-2016 and Research Grant
November 2015: Post-doctoral Associateship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
November 2015: Prof. S. Soundararajan Medal (best Ph.D. thesis award) for the academic year 2015-16
September 2015: Selected as a one of the top 45 finalists worldwide for 2015 Reaxys PhD Prize (International), awarded in Hong Kong
March 2015: Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award (GYTI, Technological Edge Innovation), received at the hands of Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar and Prof. K. VijayRaghavan at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi
February 2015: Best oral presentation award (first prize) at the Bhartiya Vigyaan Sammelan 2015
January 2015: Research Associateship, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
July 2013: Best poster presentation award at the Indo-US symposium on molecular materials held at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
March 2013: Best poster presentation award at the first national conference on mapping the ‘Materials Genome’ held at Shiv Nadar University (SNU), Dadri, Uttar Pradesh, India
February 2013: Prof. Bhaskar Maiya best presentation award by the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) in the symposium held at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India
September 2010: Best poster award at the RSC west India chemistry section Ph.D. students’ symposium held at Goa University, Goa
March 2010: Felicitation by chemistry department alumni, Goa University, Goa, for qualifying NET examination
December 2009: Qualified CSIR-UGC-NET examination
June 2009: Qualified CSIR-UGC-NET examination to enroll as a graduate student at IISc, Bangalore
September 2008: Late Shri Hanumant Chodankar award for scoring highest marks in organic chemistry at T.Y.B.Sc University examination
April 2008: Prof. Kaushal Kishore memorial summer research fellowship award by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
June 2007: Award and fellowship from Mineral Foundation of Goa (MFG) and declared as a distinguished MFG scholar
June 2007: Topper at the M.Sc. entrance examination conducted by the department of chemistry, Goa University, Goa
June 2007: Chemistry department alumni fellowship, Goa University, Goa
Dec 2005: Best academic performance award by Government college, Khandola-Marcela Goa
July 2003: Honorship from Sanquelim Goa Ganeshotsav Mandal, and Shri Bhumika Shikshan Sansthan for scoring distinction marks in P.U.C level examination