News 

• 2025 Sept

Rohit has been awarded a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship. UKRI Announcement, University Press Release.

• 2025 April

Rohit received the Institute of Physics Bronze Early Career Medal at the IOP Award ceremony during the Celebration of Physics event in Nottingham.

• 2025 Jan

Rohit was featured in Episode 4 of the IISER Pune Alumni Series, presented by the IISER Pune Alumni Association and Science Media Centre, where he reflects on his journey from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya to the University of Birmingham, and how IISER Pune shaped his path.

• 2024 Dec

Rohit has been selected as a Rising Star in Optics by the IOP Journal of Optics, as part of its 25th Anniversary celebrations, honouring outstanding early-career researchers making significant contributions to the field of optics. Announcement.

• 2024 Oct

Rohit has been honoured with 2024 IOP Bronze Early Career Medal - Henry Mosely Medal and Prize for outstanding contributions to extreme confinement of light at atomic scales to see the invisible interaction of light with molecular bonds at room temperature. IOP Announcement, Uni News. 

• 2024 July

Recognition at the Founders' Awards 2024 at the University by winning The Florence Price Award for Outstanding Early-Career Academic which recognises the work of an outstanding early-career academic whose research has international significance and is breaking new boundaries, placing their research, and the University, at the global forefront of their discipline. Awards Page, Video link.  

• 2024 July

As part of the Founders' Awards 2024 entry, Rohit shares a 150-second snapshot of the team's research in this YouTube video.

• 2023 Sep

Metallic Gratings Produce a Strong Surprise: Our Physical Review Letters paper is highlighted as a Synopse in the Physics Magazine.

• 2023 Aug

Making the invisible, visible: News coverage of our work on single-molecule mid-infrared spectroscopy and detection - Physics World, Laser Focus World, Phys.org, optics.org, The Science Times

• 2016 Nov

News about our Science paper on single-molecule optomechanics in 'pico-cavities' in various media outlets - Cambridge News, Physics World, Nature World News, Science Daily 

• 2016 June

News about our Nature paper on single-molecule strong coupling in various media outlets - Cambridge News, Imperial College News, Phys.org, The Engineer, Science Daily

• 2015 Oct

Cavendish Laboratory Physics Course Handbook chooses our research illustration as the cover page image