Awards and Honors

1. Distinguished Facuty Award, Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI) (2015)

2. Space project: Invited by Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, to collaborate on a space research project on “Structure Analysis of Colloidal Crystals under the Microgravity Environment” funder by Japan Aerospace exploration Agency (JAXA) (Year 2010, 2013,2014,2016)

3. Award of Erudite Visiting Professor: Received from vice-chancellor of Mahathma Gandhi University-Kottayam under THE ERUDITE Scholors-inRseidence Programme by Government of Kerala, India ( February - 2011)

4. Best Paper Award: Int.Conf. on Nanoscience and Technology (ICONSAT-2010), February 17-20 (2010), IIT Mumbai, India

5. MRSI Medal (2009): From Materials research society of India in recognition of significant contributions to the field of Materials Science and Engineering.

6. Prof. O. Prabhakar endowment award (2008): Best paper award, authored by J. Brijitta, B.V.R. Tata, and T. Kaliyappan in the International Symposium for Research Scholars on Metallurgy, Materials Science and Engineering (ISRS), IIT Chennai, India.

7. Best Poster award (2007): In the 52^nd DAE Solid State Physics Symposium held at University of Mysore, Mysore (2007).

8. Young Research Award (1998): in recognition to his paper presented during the 5^th IUMRS Int.Conf., held at IISC, Bangalore (India).

9. Kalpakkam Science and Technology award for basic sciences (1993): for the discovery of “Vapor-liquid condensation in charged colloids".