Awards, Grants & Honours

Awards

• 2025, International Travel Support (ITS), ANRF Government of India

• 2025, Trusted Reviewer Award, Springer Nature Group

• 2024-2026, Institute Post Doctoral Fellowship, IIT Guwahati

• 2022-2023, ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship (Short-Term), Government of India

• 2022, Proposal Development Training Grant by APN, Japan

• 2022, Going Global Fellowship by British Council (under Going Global Partnership Grant)

• 2020-2021, Course Topper NPTEL “Organic Farming for Sustainable Agricultural Production” 

• 2020, Best Poster Presentation Award at IIT Guwahati, Assam, INDIA 

• 2017, Best Poster Presentation Award at Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, INDIA  

• 2015-2017, Swami Vivekananda PG Scholarship, Government of West Bengal  

• 2010-2012, IndianOil Educational Scholarship by Indian Oil Corporation

Grants

• 2025-2030, Co-PI of the project "Leveraging the Health Disaster Resilience Assessment (HDRA) and Monitoring Framework Tools for Strengthening Health Facility Resilience: A Case-Control Study" awarded by ICSSR, GoI [1.19 Cr; Ongoing]

• 2022-2023, PI of the project “Implementation of Circular Bio-nutrient Economy Concept for Sustainable Management of Rural Abattoir Waste in Agriculture: Analysis of Possible Barriers and Enablers” awarded by ICSSR, GoI [1.30 Lakh; Completed]

Editor in Book/ Journals

• Natural Resources Management and the Entrepreneurial Mindset: Role of Technologies and Policies, CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group)

Referee for Journals

• Springer

BMC Environmental Microbiome (IF: 6.3)  I  BMC Plant Biology (IF: 4.3)  I  Plant and Soil (IF: 3.9)  I  Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (IF: 3.4)

Discover Sustainability (IF: 3.0)  I  National Academy Science Letters (IF: 1.2)

• Nature

Scientific Reports (IF: 3.8)

• Elsevier

Journal of Hazardous Materials (IF: 12.2)  I  Journal of Agriculture and Food Research (IF: 4.8)  I  Sustainable Futures (IF: 3.3)

• Taylor & Francis

Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science (IF: 2.3)  I  Compost Science & Utilization (IF: 2.0)  I  African Journal of Range & Forage Science (IF: 1.4)

External Expert for Funding Bodies/ Advisory Panels

• CAPaBLE, Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), Japan

• Jury Member, Research and Industrial Conclave (RIC) 2025, IIT Guwahati

Membership of Learned Society

• 2025-2026, Annual Member, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES), Brisbane