Awards and fellowships

• Future Faculty Fellowship Rice University 2022

• Best Thesis Poster Award KPIT Shodh-IISER Pune 2019

• International Travel Support Award SERB, DST, GOI 2018

• Shortlisted Finalist in Dragon’s Den Contest Elsevier, Reaxys 2017 (24th Congress & General Assembly of the IUCr)

• RSC Commonwealth Fellowship Royal Society of Chemistry 2017

• Student Travel Support Scheme JNCASR, DST, GOI 2016

• Indo-German Exchange Program DST-DAAD 2016 (T. U. Darmstadt)

• 1st position in Winter School JNCASR and University of Cambridge 2014

• Best Poster Award: In-House Symposium JNCASR 2014

• NET/GATE/JAM Fellowships (2011-2013)

• INSPIRE scholarship Dept. of Science. and Tech., GOI. 2008 – 2013

• National Merit Scholarship Scheme Govt. of India 2006, 2008

Peer reviewer

• ACS: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, ACS Applied Energy Materials, ACS Catalysis, Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS)

• Wiley: Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Science

• Elsevier: Carbon, Applied Surface Science, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

• RSC: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Nanoscale

• NPG, Springer Nature: Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Carbon Letters

• MDPI: Energies, Sustainability

Member of the Indian Science Congress Association, American Chemical Society, Materials Research Society

@IITK

• Invited Talk, Universiti Malaya, 14 May 2025

• Invited Talk, Advances in CCUS, IIT Kanpur Noida Outreach Centre,  24-25 April 2025

• Invited Talk, American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, San Diego,  23-27 March 2025

• Invited Talk, International Workshop on Sustainable Materials Development for Energy and Environmental Applications, Ooty, 2024 

• Co-convenor, ICCCU-24,  JNCASR, Bangalore, December 2024

• Invited Talk at ICEAN, U. Newcastle, Australia, November 2024

• Invited Participant at CCUS workshop, NITI Aayog & US DOE, New Delhi, 22-23 August 2024

• Invited Seminar at JNCASR, Bangalore, June 2024

During Postdoc

• Invited seminar at Air Force Research Lab, Dayton, OH 2024

• Invited seminar at SLAC-Stanford Battery Center, 2024

• Invited departmental seminar at CBE, U Buffalo, March 2024

• MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2023

• 241st ECS Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 2022

• SCI Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University, 2021 [Invited Judge]

• Invited talks at IISc., IIT-B, IIT-K, IIT-M, IIT-D, IISER-TVM, IISER-Pune, NCL Pune, NPL Delhi, 2022-2023

• MSNE Seminar, Rice University, 2020 [Invited]

• IIT Kanpur-Rice Inauguration Workshop, Kanpur, India, 2020 [Invited]

• IIT Kanpur-Rice Annual Workshop, Kanpur, India, 2020 [Invited]

• International Seminar on Recent Advances in Chemistry & Material Science, Indian Chemical Society, Jadavpur University, India, 2020 [Invited]

• JBNSTS Webinar Series, 20202, India [invited]

• ICIIFCPAS, Vidyasagar University, India, 2020 [Invited]

• SCI Summer Research Colloquium, Rice University, 2020

• 2020 CEC Annual Workshop on Electrochemistry, Austin, USA, 2020

During Ph. D.

• EIChemRoutes, (Indo-UK workshop on Electrochemical Routes for Energy Conversion, Storage and

Fuel Production), JNCASR, Bangalore, India, 2018

• MRS Fall meeting, Boston, USA, 2018

• 10th Annual International Workshop on Advanced Materials, RAKCAM, Ras-al-Khaima, UAE, 2018

• 23rd National Symposium on Catalysis Applied Catalysis in Emerging Technologies for Chemicals

CATSYMP-23, Bengaluru, India, 2018

• CACEE (Conference on Advances in Catalysis for Energy and Env.), TIFR, Mumbai, India, 2018

• In-house symposium, JNCASR, Bangalore, India, 2017

• 24th Congress & Gen. Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography, Hyderabad, India, 2017

• Commonwealth Science Conference, Biopolis, Singapore, 2017

• FMOCS-IV PoCheMon conference, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2016

• 18th CRSI (Chemical Research Society of India) National Symposium in Chemistry, Punjab

University, Chandigarh, India, 2016

• National Conference on Chemical Frontiers, Goa, India, 2015

• 15th BCA/CCG Intensive School in X-Ray Structure Analysis, Trevelyan College, Durham, UK, 2015

• International Conference on Chemistry of Materials, Kerala, India, 2013

• Indian Science Congress, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, 2010

• Indian Science Congress, NEHU, Shillong, India, 2009

@IITK

SEE605 (Sem II, Y24-25): Introduction to Sustainable Energy Technologies (PG Laboratory course)

SEE606 (Sem I, Y24-25): Electrochemical Energy Systems (Open elective course)

SEE888 (Sem I, Y24-25): Introduction to Profession and Communication 

Teaching Assistance 

@Rice

• Introduction to Materials Science and Nanotechnology, (Undergraduate course, MSNE-201, 3 Credits, Guest Lecturer with P. M. Ajayan and R. Vajtai)- Delivered guest lectures on topics related to catalysis, materials design, and structure-property correlations, set assignments, and assisted in grading.

@JNCASR

• Crystallography of solid-state materials (Graduate level course, JNC-310, 3 credits, TA with Sebastian C. Peter, JNCASR, India)

• Physical methods for chemists (Graduate level course, JNC-305, 3 credits, TA with Sebastian C. Peter, JNCASR, India)

• Chemical laboratory for Int-PhD students (Graduate level course, JNC-203-5, 3 credits, TA with Sebastian C. Peter, JNCASR, India)