“I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen

but as the years wasted on

nothing ever did unless I caused it.”

― Charles Bukowski 

Recognitions/fellowships

2022-   Special research grant of 5000 Euros, Exceptional Global pendemic support by FNRS, Belgium

2021-         Presidential Membership Award-2021 by Genetic Society of America 

2019-         CHARGE DE RECHERCHES fellowship and grant by Belgian Funds for Scientific  

                  Research (FNRS) highly Competitive independent fellowship/grant

2019-         The Special Research Fund (FSR) - MOVE-IN Louvain 2019 by UCLouvain, 

                  Belgium, Competitive mobility fellowship

2019-         Selected as Plantae Fellow (American Society of Plant Biologists)

2019-   Finalist INSA Medal for Young Scientist, Agriculture Biotechnology 

2017-         Silver Jubilee Post-Doctoral Award from Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, 

                  India (Not used)

2016-         International travel grants to attend Plant Biology-2016 (Austin, Texas, USA), 

                  awarded by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) and Dept. of 

                  Biotechnology (DBT-CTEP), Govt. of India.

2013-         CSIR-UGC Junior Research Fellowship (NET-JRF) (not used)

2013-         Young Junior Scientist award for Best poster presentation at 7th Annual Convention of Association of         

                  Biotechnology and Pharmacy-2013, University of Delhi-South campus (UDSC).

2013-         Best Presentation award (Biotechnology) at Chandigarh Science Congress-2013, 

                  Panjab University, India.

2012-   Awarded National Eligibility Test (NET) Award conducted by Council of Scientific and 

                  Industrial Research-Human Resource Development Group, Govt. of India

2011-         DBT-JRF, Junior/Senior Research Fellowship-Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, 

                  (used for doctoral research)

2011-         Qualified Graduate aptitude test in Engineering (GATE) in Biotechnology

2010-   Qualified Graduate aptitude test in Engineering (GATE) in Life Science

2010-         Certificate of Merit, Plant biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University 

2009-         Selected for Masters in Science program through national examination at Banaras Hindu 

                  University

Leadership and community service

2021-             Early career leader and Co-chair on Community & Membership sub-committee, 

                      Genetics society of America (GSA)

Continue-     Peer-review activity for several plant science journals (ORCID: 0000-0002-2322-0431)

2020-             Founded working group for International Researchers at Scientific Corps of UCLouvain

                      (CORSCI) https://uclouvain.be/fr/decouvrir/projetscorsci.html

2020-21-        Treasurer, ACTIVE-association for young scientists, Louvain Institute of Biomolecular 

                      Sciences, UCLouvain, BE

2019-21-        Network leader for Plant autophagy network in Plantae: ASPB

2018-             Scientist Mentor at Planting Science, USA (https://www.plantingscience.org)

2016-18-        Member of International Talent Forum: Cross Border Science and Society,

                      Copenhagen

2017-18-        Volunteered in organization of Spring festival (Biggest student festival), University of 

                      Copenhagen, Denmark

2010-11         Worked for Student council, Banaras Hindu University, India