AWARDS:
Prof. S. Venkateswaran Faculty Excellence Award, 2019.
Bharat Shiksha Gaurav Puraskar, 2021 by KTK Outstanding Achievers and Education Foundation, New Delhi.
HONOURS AND RECOGNITIONS:
Editorial Board Member as Review Editor (June 2022 - till date): Frontiers in Chemistry – Chemical Biology
Received recognition in the form of an editorial in ACS Omega for reviewing articles for the journal in the year 2017 and 2018. Name as reviewer cited in ACS Omega, 3, 595 (2018); ACS Omega, 4, 1700 (2019).
Received author rewards from American Chemical Society for publishing two articles in the journals published by ACS in the year 2014 (J. Phys. Chem. C, 118, 2735 (2014); J. Phys. Chem. B, 118, 3582 (2014)).
Invited Speaker in in the 21st. National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions & Biocolloids (NATCOSEB XXI) Organized by the School of Studies in Chemistry, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur Chhattisgarh, under the auspices of the Indian Society for Surface Science and Technology, Kolkata, from November 23-25, 2023. Chaired a technical session.
Invited Speaker in the Two Days’ National Symposium On “The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023: Discovery and Synthesis of Quantum Dots” Organized by the Department of Chemistry, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh during November 21-22, 2023. Chaired a technical session.
Invited speaker in the Physical Chemistry Section of 58th Annual Convention of Chemists and International Conference on Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences held online at the Department of Chemistry, University of Calcutta on December 22, 2021
Invited Speaker in XIXth National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions and Biocolloids (NATCOSEB-XIX) organized by the Department of Chemistry, Amity University, Kolkata under the aegis of Indian Society for Surface Science & Technology (ISSST), Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata held during October 18-20, 2019. Chaired a technical session.
Chairperson in one of the Technical Session of the Physical Chemistry Section of the Indian Chemical Society in 57th Annual Convention of Chemists held at the Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay during 26-29th December 2020.
Invited Speaker in 4th International Conference on Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications (ICN 2019) organized by International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala and Institut Jean Lamour, UMR CNRS 7198-Unversite de Lorraine, Nancy Cedex, France during 12-14 April 2019. Co-Chaired a technical session in the same conference.
Invited Speaker in the Department of Chemistry, Manipal University, Jaipur on April 14, 2018.
Invited Speaker in XVIIIth National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions & Biocolloids (NATCOSEB 2017) during 10-12 November 2017 organized by School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Sambulpur, Odisha under the aegis of Indian Society for Surface Science and Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Invited Speaker in XVIIth National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions & Biocolloids (NATCOSEB 2015) organized by School of Studies in Chemistry, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur, Chhattisgarh under the auspicious of the Indian Society for Surface Science & Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata during November 4-6, 2015.
Invited Speaker in XVIth National Conference on Surfactants, Emulsions and Biocolloids (NATCOSEB) organized jointly by the Indian Society for Surface Science and Technology, Kolkata and Central Leather Research Institute, Adyar, Chennai during November 28—30, 2013.
Invited Speaker in the National Conference on Condensed Matter Physics (NCCMP), Department of Physics, BITS Pilani during February 24-25, 2012.
Invited Speaker in the Conference on Photochemistry and Luminescence (CPL-2012) held at Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati during March 9-10, 2012. Co-chaired a technical session in the same conference.
Invited Speaker in the National Seminar on Membranes, Microemulsions, and Self-Assembled Systems (MMSAS) held at Department of Chemistry, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, Rangpo, Sikkim during September 28-30, 2010. Chaired a technical session in the same seminar.
Invited Speaker in the National Conference on Disperse Systems held at Assam University, Silchar, Assam during November, 23-25, 2006.
Resource Person in the UGC Refresher Course in the subject “Theoretical and Computational Chemistry” held in BITS, Pilani.
Resource Person in the Academic Refresher Course for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaypur held in BITS, Pilani.
Reviewed research articles for the journals, Langmuir, Energy & Fuels, Soft Matter, RSC Advances, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, European Journal of Chemistry, Journal of Surface Science and Technology, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, Dalton Transactions, Advances in Physical Chemistry, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Journal of Molecular Liquids, ACS Omega, ChemistrySelect, Analyst, Carbohydrate Polymers, Journal of Luminescence, Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, Journal of Solution Chemistry, Journal of Surfactants and Detergents, Separation Science and Technology.
Associate Editor (2011-2012), Global Journal of Physical Chemistry.
CSIR Research Associate, April 1998 – November 1999, IIT Kanpur.
Senior Project Fellow (DAE sponsored), August 1997 – December 1997, IIT Kanpur.
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), IIT Kanpur, 1992.
Junior and Senior Research Fellowship, July 1992 to July 1997, IIT Kanpur.
National Scholarship, 1986 - 1990, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India.
