AWARDS AND HONORS

AWARDS

1. Awarded the BOYSCAST Fellowship to do postdoctoral research under Prof. Dr. Hartmut Laatsch at the Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, between January and September 2011, funded by DST, Govt. of India.

2. Awarded the ‘INSA Summer Fellowship’ to do postdoctoral research under Prof. Dr. K.Kathiresan at the Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Annamalai University, Parangipettai, Tamil Nadu, India, between April and June 2013, funded by Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, and The National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad .

3. Received a "Best Faculty Award in Biotechnology" from Nature Science Foundation, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India in the year 2018.

4. Received an  IET Premium Awardby The Institution of Engineering and Technology for publishing an article in Nano-Biotechnology in the year 2019.

5. Received an "Aquaculture Awards 2022" for aquaculture sustainability from Aquaculture UK, Scotland in the year 2022. 

6. Received a "Best Scientist Award in Marine Biotechnology" from Nature Science Foundation, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India in the year 2023.


HONORS

2. Serving as an Academic Expert Member in the Board of Studies (BoS) for framing the B.Tech. Biotechnology Syllabus to P.S.R. Engineering College, Sivakasi, India.