Awards, Scholarships & Distinctions


  • Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy (BASE) Fellowship 2014 from Department of Science and Technology (DST), India and the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF).
  • IEI Young Engineers Award 2013-14 from the Institution of Engineers (INDIA) in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering discipline. The award consists of INR 10,000/- and a Citation.
  • DAE Young Scientist Research Award 2012 from BRNS, DAE for the research project "Feasibility studies on joining austenitic stainless steel with other application-based alloys using friction stir welding process".
  • Humboldt Research Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2006).
  • Cover page illustration in Journal of Microscopy (volume 227, issue 3, September 2007) of SEM-EBSD microstructure image of Ti-23Al-25Nb alloy.
  • Awarded the best thesis distinction in Ph.D. at University of Metz, France "Très honorable avec félicitations du jury" (2006).
  • Best Poster Award in ICSMA14 Conference in 2006 at Xi'an, China.
  • Received Scholarship "Bourse de fond de thèse" (Ministry of Research, France) for Ph.D. (2002-2006).
  • Cleared GATE-2000 (India) in Chemistry with 96.97 Percentile.
  • Cleared Junior Research Fellowship from the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India (2000) in Chemistry.
  • Stood First in B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons.) at ARSD college, University of Delhi.

SEMINARS/SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED


  • Organized 6-day workshop on Advanced Materials Characterization techniques (under MHRD, SPARC Program), Aug 27-Sep 1, 2019 at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.
  • Organized 10 days course of Electron Microscopy: Basics and Applications (under MHRD, GIAN), July, 2016 at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.
  • Organized Equilibrium Phase Transformations of Metallic Systems (TEQIP Workshop), July 17-23, 2016 at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.
  • Organized Materials Microstructure Characterization using Optical and Scanning Electron Microscopy (TEQIP Workshop), December 20-24, 2015 at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.
  • Organizer of Advanced Materials Characterisation Techniques (TEQIP Workshop), November 1-2, 2014 at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India..
  • Organizing Member of Fourth International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS 2012), December 9-12, 2012 at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.
  • Organizing Member of Sixth National Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering (NatFOE-2011), September 2-3, 2011 at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS


  • Invited Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, December 2019 for 10 days
  • Invited Professor at Purdue University, USA, June 2019 for half month
  • Invited Professor at University Paul-Verlaine Metz, France, May-June 2017 for one month
  • Guest Professor at Prof. Kei Ameyama's group, Ritsumeikan University, Japan in June-July 2015 (40 days) under DST-JSPS joint project.
  • Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy (BASE) fellowship in May-July 2014 (2.5 months) in Dr. David Ginley's group at National Renewable Laboratory (NREL), USA.
  • Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-IIT Hyderabad FRIENDSHIP visit to Prof. Nobuhiro Tsuji, Kyoto University and Prof. Kei Ameyama, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, July 2013 for 13 days.
  • Alexander von Humboldt Guest Scientist at Materials Science and Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, May-July 2012 for 2½ months.
  • Invited Professor at University Paul-Verlaine Metz, France, June-July 2011 for one month.
  • Alexander von Humboldt Guest Scientist at Institute for Structure Physics, Technical University Dresden, Germany, May-June 2011 for one month.