Honours/Awards/Academic Scholarships

1. Letter of appreciation from the Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh, for indigenously realising the first Bose-Einstein Condensate in India (Nov 4, 2007).

 2. DST-DFG Award for Participation in the 55th Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany (2005).

3. "Outstanding Woman Researcher in Physics Award" by Venus International Foundation (2025).

4. IOP Trusted Reviewer status certificate from IOP Publishing, UK for "an exceptionally high level of peer review competency" (2022).

5. Outstanding Reviewer Award 2016 from IOP Publishing, UK (2017).

6. Outstanding Reviewer Award 2019 from IOP Publishing, UK (2020).

7. DST Women Scientist fellowship (WOSA) in Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2020).

8. Letter of Appreciation from Sapthagiri College of Engineering, Bangalore, for presenting a webinar on "Quantum Simulation with ultra-cold bosons and fermions in optical lattices" (Dated 25 June 2021).

9. Best Paper Presentation Prize in XXXIII Optical Society of India Symposium on Optics and Opto-Electronics, Tezpur University, Assam, Dec 18-20, 2007.

10. IFRAF Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Research at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (2008).

11. CNRS Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Research at Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau, France (2010).

12. ERC Grant for Post-Doctoral Research at European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Florence, Italy (2011).