Awards and services

• Elected Fellow, Institute of Materials Mineral and Mining (UK), FIMMM

• Young Faculty Incentive Fellowship, IIT Delhi, 2021-2024.

• Chartered Engineer (CEng), Engineering Council, UK

• Runner-up for Nanyang Assistant Professorship at Nanyang Technological University, 2019

• ‘Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing’, Surface and Coatings Technology, November 2018.

• RR@NTU Corp Lab Team Building Day 2018 Certificate: Adjudged Best Spirited Team, August 2018.

• Professional Member, Institution of Materials, Minerals and Mining (# 486869), MIMMM.

• Professional Member, Materials Research Society of Singapore (MRS-S).

• Runner-up, James Clerk Maxwell Writers Prize, Philosophical Magazine and Philosophical Magazine Letters, 2014.

• Research Fellow (member of the Governing Body), Darwin College, University of Cambridge (2012-2015).

• Homerton College Research Grant to attend Summer School on Stable and Metastable Multiphase Systems for High Temperature Application, Pommersfelden, Germany, 2011.

• Travel grant by The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers to attend TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition 2011, San Diego.

• Travel grant by The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers to attend MRS Fall 2010 Meeting, Boston.

• EPSRC-Rolls Royce Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award, 2008-09, for doctoral studies, University of Cambridge.

• Best Masters presentation, 21st Annual Students’ Symposium, 17-19th January 2008, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

• All India Rank (AIR) of 12th in Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineers (GATE) in Metallurgical Engineering, 2006.

• Associate Editor

Philosophical Magazine and Philosophical Magazine Letters (Taylor and Francis Group)

• Topic Editor in journals

Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, MDPI

Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering (Co-editor)

• Co-organiser of the Darwin College Science Seminars, 2013-14.

• Invited reviewer of, Acta Materialia, Crystal Research and Technology, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Materials (MDPI), Materials and Design, Materials Science and Technology, Materials Today Communication, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Metals (MDPI), MRS Proceedings, Philosophical Magazine, Philosophical Magazine Letters. Surface and Coatings Technology, Thin Solid Film.