AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS

AWARDS

• SERB-MATRICS grant for 2023-2026, Science & Engineering Research Board, DST, India, 2023.

• Early Career Research Award, Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science & Technology, India, 2019.

• International Travel Support Award (USA), Science and Engineering Research Board, DST, India, 2019.

• Young Crew member award and invited talk, AOGS (Asia Oceania Geosciences Society), Solid Earth Students’ Section, Singapore, 2015.

• Baisnab Charan Memorial Award by Govt. of Odisha for securing highest mark in Mathematics in the State, 2000.

• State award by Department of   Information and public relations, Govt. Of Odisha on Utkal Divas, 01.04.1996.

• Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) fellowship for Post Doc at Taiwan, sponsoring: MOST, Govt. of Taiwan, 2016 (Denied).

• MHRD Travel Grant Award for annual meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), Montreal, Canada, May, 2015.

• MHRD Travel Grant Award for annual meeting of European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, April, 2016.

• Kalandi Charan Award by District academic committee for social significance, 2004, Dist- Bhadrak, Odisha.

• 41 times district and Sub-divisional awards winner for participating in different academic competitions.

• Best Poster Award, International Conference on “Engineering Sciences and Technology for Environmental Care (ESTEC), 2020.

RECOGNITIONS

• JSPS Fellowship, (Japan Society for Promotion of the Science), Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 2022.

• Editorial Board Member, All Earth (Formerly Acta Goodinamica), IF 3.3, Taylor & Francis, (2021-Present).

• Advisory Board Member, Geosciences, IF 2.7, MDPI (2024-Present).

• Guest Editor, Remote Sensing, MDPI, Special Issue "Earthquake Disaster Monitoring Using Remote Sensing Image Processing and Geophysical Techniques", 2022.

• Guest Editor, All Earth, Taylor & Francis, Special Issue "Natural Hazards, Distaster Risk Reduction and Society", 2022.

• Convener, SERB Sponsored National Workshop on ‘Geodynamic Genesis of Indo-Burmese Range: A Conundrum in Earth Science’, CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat. Sponsors: SERB-DST, Aimil Ltd, Chrisvin Geomet, and The Kaziranga University, June 2022.

• Project Coordinator and Mentor, PAN India Flagship program ‘Summer Research Training Program (SRTP), 2020’, a special summer training for Indian students (Online) in COVID-Pandemic situation (Total participants: 16,490 students).

• Chair and Main Convener, Solid Earth Sciences Section, Session- SE07, “Active geodynamics, deformation, anisotropy and growth of Eastern Himalaya”, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), 2019, Singapore.

• Organising Secretary, National Workshop “Recent Developments in Civil and Earthquake Engineering (RDCEE 2018)”, April 09, 2018, CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat, Assam; Sponsors: CSIR, Bricolite ltd., Aimil ltd., Bumi Ltd., etc.

• DOS-Fellowship, Department of Space (DOS), 20.07.2010 to 28.03.2012.

• MHRD-Fellowship, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), 11.07.13- 30.07.2016.