Work Experience

1. Scientist, January 2020-till date, Environmental Science Laboratory, CSIR-CLRI, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

2. Scientist ‘B’, November 2018- January 02, 2020, Environmental Impact Assessment Division, Ministry of Environment,                     Forest & Climate Change (MoEF &CC), New Delhi, India (www.moef.nic.in)

3. Post-Doctoral Researcher Level-II, November 2016 - September 2018, School of Chemical and Bioprocess                                       Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland (Advisor: Prof. K. Ravindranathan Thampi)

4. Post-Doctoral Fellow, March 2016 - August 2016, Department of Environmental Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian                         University, Taiwan (Advisor: Prof. Sheng-Jie You).

5. Post-Doctoral Researcher, January 2015- December 2015, Department of Environmental Engineering, Kyungpook                           National University, South Korea (Advisor: Prof. Wan Kuen Jo).

6. CSIR-Senior Research Fellow, April 2012-September 2014, Inorganic Materials and Catalysis Division, CSIR-CSMCRI,                      Bhavnagar, Gujarat (Advisor: Dr. Hari C Bajaj and Dr. Rajesh J Tayade).

7. Project Assistant Level–II, October 2008-March 2012, Inorganic Materials and Catalysis Division, CSIR-CSMCRI,                              Bhavnagar, Gujarat (Advisor: Dr. Hari C Bajaj and Dr. Rajesh J Tayade).

8. Summer Research Fellow, May 2008 - July 2008, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur                           (Advisor: Prof. F. A. Khan) .

9. Summer Research Fellow, May 2007 - July 2007, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur                           (Advisor: Prof. F. A. Khan).

Teaching Experience

• Course Code: AcSIR-11-CS-AD-008-Green Chemistry

• Course Code: AcSIR-11-ID-008-Environmental Chemistry for Interdisciplinary Science

• Course Code: AcSIR-11-CS-AD-006-Advanced Materials Science

• Course Code: AcSIR-11-ID-013 -Sol gel Chemistry

Fellowships Received

1. JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship-2017 under first recruitment of call FY2017-2018.

     Funding Agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan.

2. Government of Ireland Post-doctoral fellowship-2016

     Funding Agency: Irish Research Council, Ireland.

3. Claude Leon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship-2015

     Funding Agency: Claude Leon Foundation, South Africa.

4. CSIR-Senior Research fellowship-2012.

     Funding Agency: CSIR, New Delhi, India

5. Summer Research Fellowship-2008

     Funding Agency: Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bangalore, India

6. Summer Research Fellowship-2007

    Funding Agency: Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bangalore, India

Awards, Prizes and Recognition

1. Best oral presentation award which was sponsored by Wiley in the International Conference on Energy and Environmental    Materials” held at IIT Indore, MP, India,11-13 July 2024.t

2. Featured in the list of “Top 2% scientists worldwide" in the 2022 database, published by Stanford University, USA, and                     Elsevier BV. 

3. Best of the session (Oral Presentation) in an international conference, awarded by Dharmsinh Desai University,                                Nadiad, Gujarat, India, 2021. 

4. Winner of the Debate Competition in Women Scientists’ and Entrepreneurs’ Conclave conducted under 6th India                               International Science Festival (IISF)-2020 held during 22-25 December 2020, India 

5. Top Cited Papers Award for Chemical Engineering Journal 2011,169, 126-134 from Elsevier for the year                                          2011 and 2012.

6. First prize in a poster presentation at National Level Seminar, awarded by Seminar Organiser, Annasaheb Awate Arts,                     Commerce & Hutatma Babu Genu Science College, Pune, Maharashtra, India held during 5-7 September 2009.

7. University 3rd rank in M.Sc., Chemistry, 2008, awarded by Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil                           Nadu, India.