Awards and Recognition

Awards and Recognition

• Awarded a Short Research Stay Grant by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a research visit to Germany, 2026. 

• Received the Women Involvement in Science and Engineering Research (WISER) Grant — Awarded by the Indo-German Science & Technology Centre (IGSTC), Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Government of Germany (2025). 

• Young Woman Researcher in Sustainable Materials by the Venus International Foundation, 2025

• Reviewer Appreciation certificates from Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals (TIIM), 2025

• First recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship through the Henriette Herz (HH) Scouting program, 2022.

• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research fellowship for postdoctoral position at MaxPlanck-Institute für Eisenforschung (MPIE) Germany, 2022.

• Teaching Assistance in “Phase Transformation in Materials” and “Nanomaterials and their Properties” courses offered by National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) sponsored by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), India (2018 & 2021). 

• Received first prize in the poster presentation on Research Scholar Day Padarth-2019 held at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 2019. 

• Received NIMS (National Institute for Materials Science) internship fellowship award for a period of three months in Japan, 2018. 

• Reviewer for Transaction of Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), Materialia, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Materials Characterization, Philosophical Magazine.

Funding Awarded

Ongoing Project: 

• 2026–2029
  ANRF Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant
  Principal Investigator
  Funding support: ₹72 lakh

• 2026–2029
  IGSTC WISER Indo-German Bilateral Research Grant
  Indian Principal Investigator, in collaboration with the German Investigator
  Total bilateral Indo-German funding support: ~₹93 lakh equivalent, including ~₹39 lakh Indian-side support. 

• 2026–2028
  Research and Innovation for Undergraduate Students with Young Faculty: YFRSG (PRIUS)
  Indian Institute of Technology Indore
  Principal Investigator
  Funding support: ₹5 lakh

• 2024–2026
  Young Faculty Research Seed Grant (YFRSG)
  Indian Institute of Technology Indore
  Principal Investigator
  Funding support: ₹10 lakh

• 2024–2026
  Young Faculty International Dream Lab Research Grant
  Indian Institute of Technology Indore
  Principal Investigator
  Funding support: ₹5 lakh

Completed Project

• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Research project: Hydrogen-Based Iron Ore Reduction
  Period: January 2022 – December 2023

• Forschungszentrum Jülich / Ernst Ruska-Centre, Germany
  Project No.: ER-C-D-073
  Research project: Environmental In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy for Hydrogen-Based Direct Reduction of Iron-Oxide Nanoparticles
  Period: July 2022 – November 2023

• European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
  Research project: Dark-Field X-Ray Microscopy of the Reduction Behavior of a Single Hematite Grain
  Period: September 2022 – October 2022

• National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
  Research project: Phase Transformation of Nanomaterials
  Period: April 2018 – July 2018