Some important recognition and awards:

1. Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).
2. From 2020 to this year placed among the top 2% of most cited scientistsin the world for both categories. This database is created by researchers from Stanford University, USA based using Scopus publication data provided by Elsevier through ICSR Lab.
3. Recipient of CRS Silver medal conferred by Medal Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha® (CRS) (August 2025)
4. Recipient of “Vice Chancellor’s Award: Most Consistent Researcher Award” presented by the Vice Chancellor of BITS Pilani, Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao, on National Science Day, February 28, 2026, at BITS Hyderabad.
5. Recipient of the “Research Excellence Award 2023” in the Basic Science category conferred by BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus.
6. Recipient of the “Research Exchanges with China and India award” in 2010 and (b) “the Newton Research Collaboration Award” in 2015 (jointly with Prof Gerard Fernando, University of Birmingham, UK) bestowed by The Royal Academy of Engineering (UK).
7. TUBITAK Visiting Scientist: (Twice) 2006, 2009 (2 months each time) to visit the Department of Chemistry, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey to conduct research. Fellowship Award by “The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey”.
8. Visiting Scholar Award:(Twice) To teach a course on Nanotechnology in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree programme EACH (Excellence in Analytical Chemistry) University of Tartu (2015- 2016) and (2018-19), Estonia.
9. Received Highly Cited Author (top 10%) from Royal Society of Chemistry in UK for the paper “Debabrata Moitra, Barun Kumar Ghosh, Madhurya Chandel, Narendra Nath Ghosh^*, ‘Synthesis of a BiFeO₃nanowire-reduced graphene oxide based magnetically separable nanocatalyst and its versatile catalytic activity towards multiple organic reactions’ RSC Advances 6, 97941–97952 (2016).

Member of the Editorial Board of International Journals: 

• Journal of Materials Science (Published by Springer- Nature): Ongoing
• Guest editor: The thematic special collection "Materials Chemistry for Fundamental Science, Energy, Sustainability & Healthcare (MCCFSH)" by three journals, ChemPlusChem, ChemNanoMat, and Chemistry Select (published by Chemistry- Europe (Wiley). WILEY special collection) First published: 23 June 2025
• Frontiers in Materials (Guest associate editor)

Member of the committees for

• Selection of candidates for Commonwealth Scholarship (Chemistry) (2009 & 2010).
• Subject expert (Materials Science) of SRF/ RA selection committee of CSIR (2013).
• Evaluation of a postdoctoral application EUTOPIA Science and Innovation Post-doctoral Program (2023) (EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND program). (EUTOPIA European University Alliance: the universities of CY Cergy Paris (FR), Pompeu Fabra (ES), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE), Göteborgs (SE), Ljubljana (SI) and Warwick (UK).