Awards and Recognitions

Dr. Mayur Vaidya   |   Group Leader, IDEAS 

Awards & Honours

• Featured in Top 2% Scientist List (Subject-wise) by Stanford University for 3 consecutive years – 2023, 2024 and 2025

• Outstanding Materials Researcher by Venus International Foundation – 2025

•  Editorial Board Member – Scientific Reports Journal (Nature Publications Group) – 2025

• Selected as DAAD Research Ambassador for two consecutive terms: 2022–2025 and 2025–2028

• Research Excellence Award (below 40 years age) at IIT Hyderabad – 2023

• Teaching Excellence Award at IIT Hyderabad – 2023

• DAAD Award for short term research visit to the University of Muenster – 2023

• INSA Young Scientist Award – 2022

Students' Recognition

Nuli Krishna Chaitanya

• Best poster award at the IIM-ATM-2023, 2024, and 2025 conferences, consecutively.

Bhawna Yadav

• Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship at IIT Bombay.

• Best Contributory talk award in the annual symposium on advances in Materials Characterization at SATHI CISCoM, IITH. 

• Received SERB, International travel grant for participating in "2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition", USA.

• Received SJEF Travel Grant from the Indian Institute of Metals to present research on “Composition and Temperature Effects on Diffusion in Ultrafine Grained Materials” at the 20th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids (DSL2024), Barcelona, Spain.

Swathi Mallika Dikonda

• Received “The Larry Kaufman Scholarship” for attending “ 53rd International Conference on Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry 2026”, Quebec City, Canada.