National and International Awards

1. Excellence Award in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in Downstream Oil & Gas Industry and Petrochemicals in the 8th International Oil & Gas Chemistry, Chemicals and Additives Conference (IOGCA2025).

2. CRSI Bronze medal, 2023, Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI).

3. ChemComm highest cited paper in 2023 for the paper entitled Carbon nanomaterials for emerging membrane applications, P Bora, C Bhuyan, A R Borah and Swapnali Hazarika*, Chemical Communications, 59, 11320-11336, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3CC03490A. The paper has been selected for 60th Anniversary collection volume of ChemComm, 2024. 

4. Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), London, 2022                                                            

5. World Championship Award in Membrane science, 2018.

6. National VICAL Award in Chemical Engineering, IIChE, 2015.

7. Fullbright Fellow, under ‘Woman in Science’ program, USA, 2013.

8. Young Scientist Travel Grant, CSIR, 2011, for attending international conference in Spain. 

Best poster/Oral presentation Awards

Research Fellows under my supervision received the following awards:

1. Best oral presentation Award in the International conference on Chemistry in Multidisciplinary Research organized by Nagaland University, March 25-27, 2025.

2. Best Paper Award in the National Conference on Material Chemistry and Catalysis 2025 (MCC 2025), Tezpur University, India, March 7-8, 2025.

3. Best Paper Award in the International Conference on Oil & Gas Chemistry, Chemicals and Additives Conference & Exhibition, New Delhi, India, Sep. 26-27, 2024,

4. Best Poster Award in the International Conference on “Materials and Membranes for Water and Energy”, Organized by CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, July 10-12, 2024.

5. Best Poster Award, 31st CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (CRSI-NSC-31), NIT-Rourkela, 6th-8th July, 2023 organized by CRSI.

6. Best oral presentation Award in the symposium “Chemical Education in Self Reliance: Global Perspective” organized by Royal Society of Chemistry, held in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland, 2022.

7. Best Poster Award, North East Sustainable and Inclusive Development (NESID)”, 2022. Assam.

8. Best Oral Presentation Award, International virtual conference on Current Scenario in Chemical Sciences (CSCS–2021) Jalgaon (MS), India, 2021.

9. Best Poster Award in the Young Scientist Conference in "India International Science Festival-2019" (ISOFA 2019), Kolkata.

10. Best Poster Award, National conference on “Recent Developments in synthesis and Catalysis” (RDSC), Dibrugarh University, 2017.

11. Best Oral Presentation Award in SCHEMCON, IIChE, Kolkata, 2014. 

Technology Award   

1. Best Technology Award, for the technology “Production of Natural Edible Dye: Deep Pink Colour” on the occasion of NEIST Foundation Day, 2018, CSIR-NEIST.

2. Best Technology award for the technology “Extraction and Separation of Oxyresveratrol” CSIR-NEIST, 2017.

3. Technology Transfer Award for transferring the technology “Production of Natural Edible Dye: Deep Pink Colour” to M/s Nabarun Enterprise, Assam, 2019.