Awards, Fellowships and Other Professional recognition

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􏲁 Awards/Fellowships

• Fellow of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation 2013.

• Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore 2013.

• Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India 2018

• SASTRA G N Ramachandran Award for Excellence in Physics 2025

• Gruber Cosmology Prize 2018 (with Planck core team), Gruber Foundation.

• Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2016 : International award co-shared with authors of the Gravitational wave discovery paper.

• Princess of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research 2017 (shared with LIGO Scientific Collaboration),  Fundacion Principe de Asturias, Spain.

• Gruber Cosmology Prize 2016 (shared with LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Gruber Foundation.

• Hari Om prerit Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for Space science (PRL, Ahmedabad, Aug 2012).

• B. M. Birla Science prize in Physics–2006 (awarded Dec 31, 2007).

• DST Swarnajayanti fellowship award 2005-06 (DST, India).

• NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award for Physics - 2006 (Elsevier)

• Buti Foundation Award for 2006. (Indian Physics Association).

• N. S. Satyamurthy Award for Young scientists - 2001 (Indian Physics Association). Awarded in 2003.

• Ravi Kumar Bhalla award - 1994 (Indian Physics Association).

􏲁 Other Professional roles & recognition

current

• Member, Program Advisory Committee, LIGO Lab., USA  

• Council Member of the LIGO Scientific collaboration.

• Spokesperson, IndIGO (Indian Initiative in Gravitational Wave Observations) consortium.

• Member of the Editorial Board, Current Science (Indian Academy of Sciences)

• Member of the Editorial Board, Current Science (Indian Academy of Sciences)

• Member, PRSG, MEITY

past

• Spokesperson, LIGO-India (Science). (till Oct 2022)

• President, Indian Association for General Relativity & Gravitation (IAGRG) [March 15, 2016-2018].

• Member Secretary, LIGO-India Scientific Management Board (till Oct 2022)

• PI, LIGO-India-Training, R&D (till Oct 2022)

• LIGO-India coordinator-IUCAA (till Jul. 2019).

• Member of the Planck HFI Collaboration: HFi core team member.

• Member, Executive Council, Indian Physics Association (2021-22)

• Member of the Editorial Board, New Journal of Physics (IOP) [2009-2015].

• Chair, SOC of Amaldi-14: Melbourne, Australia July 2021.

• Member, SOC of 30th Texas Symposium On Relativistic Astrophysics, Portsmouth, UK, Dec 2019.

• Member, Program Advisory Committee, DST, 2011-2015.

• Member, SOC, “Focus Meeting” on “The Legacy of Planck” at the IAU General Assembly, August 2015 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

• Member, National Organising Committee, National Space Science Symposium, NSSS-2013.

• Member, SOC of GR-20: 20th International conference on General Relativity & Gravitation, Poland, July 2014.

• Member, Organising Committee, Indo-UK FoS meeting, Khandala, Oct 8- 10, 2014.

• Invited plenary speaker for GR-19: 19th International conference on General Relativity & Gravitation, Mexico City, July 2010.

• Member, SOC of GWPAW-12: Gravitational wave Physics & Astronomy, Hanover, Germany July 2012.

• Adjunct faculty at Dept. of Theoretical Physics (DTP), TIFR, Mumbai (2012-14)

• Adjunct faculty at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS- TIFR), Bangalore (2011-13).

• Member Programs Committee, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), TIFR. (2008-10, 2011-now).

• Hony. Visiting Professor, Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi (2015-18).