Awards
1. Marie Curie Fellowship 2024 from the European Commission (Link )
Title: Detectable leptogenesis and explaining dark matter non-detection using non-standard cosmology and multi-component dark matter models
Sponsoring agency: European Commission
PI: Dr Sarif Khan
Host: Prof Francesco D'Eramo
Place: Department of Physics, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Year of Sanction: 2025
Duration: 2 Years
Amount: 209k Euro
2. MSCA Seal of Excellence @ UNIPD 2025 Call - MSCA-PF 2024
Title: Detectable leptogenesis and explaining dark matter non-detection using non-standard cosmology and multi-component dark matter models
Sponsoring agency: MSCA Seal of Excellence @Unipd Funding Programme
PI: Dr Sarif Khan
Host: Prof Francesco D'Eramo
Place: Department of Physics, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Year of Sanction: 2025
Duration: 2 Years
Amount: 100k Euro
3. Brain Pool Fellowship
Title: Study of dark matter and baryogenesis in post-inflation epoch
Sponsoring agency: Ministry of Science and ICT and NRF of South Korea
Co-PI: Sarif Khan
Place: Department of Physics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea
Year of Sanction: 2024
Duration: 3 Years
Amount: 250 million KRW
4. MSCA ESR Fellow within the EU ITN Network Elusives
Title: Study of Neutrino and Dark Matter phenomenology and their connection, with emphasis on the role of the symmetry relating matter and antimatter
Sponsoring agency: EU ITN Network Elusives
PI: Prof Laura Covi
Co-PI: Sarif Khan
Year of Sanction: 2019
Duration: 10 months
Amount: 40k Euro
5. HRI-Infosys Prize 2018
Category: Distinction in research in particle physics
Sponsoring agency: Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj (Allahabad), India
PI: Sarif Khan
Year of Sanction: 2018
Amount: 180k INR
6. INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE)
Category: within top 1% of Class XII examination of WBCHSE
Sponsoring agency: Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
PI: Sarif Khan
Year of Sanction: 2010
Duration: 2010-2013
National Examinations Qualified
IIT JAM 2013 (Rank 24),
JEST 2013 (Rank 67),
TIFR GS Exam 2013 (Rank not listed),
NET LS 2015 (Rank 59),
WBJEE For Engineering 2010 (Rank 1053).
Integrated PhD Positions Offered in 2013
Harish-chandra research institute, Prayagraj (Allahabad), India, Year: 2013 ➡️ Accepted
Indian Institute of Science - Bengaluru, India, Year: 2013 ➡️ Declined
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)-Hyderabad, India: 2013 ➡️ Declined
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India, Year: 2013 ➡️ Declined