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Awards and recognitions
International Recognition
- Editorial Board Member of ‘Vacuum and Thin-Film Deposition Technologies’ book series (2025 onwards).
- Selected amongst the 2022/23 Pioneering Investigator Lectureship – Highly Commended Researchers of Chemical Society Reviews by Royal Society of Chemistry (2023).
- Advisory Board Member of Materials Lab (2022-24).
- Editorial Advisory Board Member of Inorganic Chemistry, ACS (2022 onwards).
- Executive Editor, ACS Applied Energy Materials, ACS (2021 onwards).
- Editorial Advisory Board member of JACS Au, ACS, (2021 onwards).
- Editorial Advisory Board member of Materials Horizon, RSC, (2021 onwards).
- Editorial Advisory Board member of Journal of Materiomics, Elsevier (2021 onwards).
- Invited Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), 2020 in Leader in the Field Category.
- Editorial Advisory Board Member of Journal of Materials Chemistry A – Royal Society of Chemistry (2020 onwards).
- Advisory Board Member of iScience-Cell Press (2020 onwards).
- Editorial Advisory Board Member of Material Advances, RSC (2020 onwards).
- Editorial Advisory Board Member of Journal of Solid State Chemistry – Elsevier (2020 onwards).
- Associate Editor in ACS Applied Energy Materials, American Chemical Society (ACS) (2018 -2021).
- Emerging Investigator in Solid-State Inorganic Chemistry by American Chemical Society (ACS) based on the publications in JACS, Chem. Mater., and Inorg. Chem (2018).
- Emerging Investigator by Chem. Commun., Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK (2018).
- Editorial Advisory Board Member of Rare Metals – Springer (2018 onwards).
- Young Scientist Wiley Award by International Union of Materials Research Societies, IUMRS ICAM, Japan (2017).
- Emerging Investigator by Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK (2017).
- Best Reviewer, Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society Publication (ACS), USA (2016).
- MRS Singapore Young Researcher Merit Award, Singapore (2016).
- Member, Global Materials Network for Young Researchers (GMN), International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS) (2016- onwards).
- Young Affiliate of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (2015-2019).
- Emerging Investigator in Inorganic Chemistry by Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK (2015).
- Editorial board member of Materials Science and Semiconductor Processing, Elsevier (May 2013 onwards).
National Recognition
- Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha Research and Innovation Excellence Award, Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha (CRS), 2024.
- Khosla National Award (Sciences) – IIT, Roorkee, 2023.
- Elected Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc), Bengaluru, 2022.
- Silver medal of Society for Materials Chemistry (SMC), 2021.
- Merck Young Scientist Award (Chemical Science), 2021.
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, 2021 (Chemical Sciences) – CSIR, India.
- National Prize for Research in Inorganic and Physical Chemistry – CNR Rao Education Foundation, (2021).
- Sheikh Saqr Career Award Fellowship, ICMS, JNCASR (2020).
- ICSC Materials Science Annual Prize, Materials Research Society, India (MRSI) (2020).
- Swarnajayanti Fellowship, Department of Science & Technology (DST) (2019).
- Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal (2019).
- Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal (2017).
- Member, Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS) (2017).
- Young Scientists Medal, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi (2016).
- Alkyl Amines Chemical Ltd.-ICT Young Scientist Award (2016).
- Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award, National Academy of Sciences (NASI), Allahabad (2015).
- Young Scientist Research Award, DAE-BRNS, India (2015).
- Associate of Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bangalore (2014-2017).
- Ramanujan Fellowship, Department of Science & Technology (DST) (2012-2017).
Student Recognitions
- Dr. Arnab Mandal: Best Poster Award at International Conference of Metal Halide Perovskites (HyPe) 2024, NISER Bhubaneshwar (2024).
- Anustoop Das: Best Poster Award at International Conference of Metal Halide Perovskites (HyPe) 2024, NISER Bhubaneshwar (2024).
- Shuva Biswas: Best Poster Award at International Conference of Metal Halide Perovskites (HyPe) 2024, NISER Bhubaneshwar (2024).
- Vaishali Taneja: Best Oral Presentation Award at International Winter School, JNCASR, Bangalore (2024).
- Riddhimoy Pathak: Best Poster Award at AFM-IHS, JNCASR, Bangalore (2024).
- Ivy Maria: Best of Category Oral Presentation Award in Engineering, TASME Conference (2024).
- Animesh Bhui: Graduate Student Award from International Thermoelectric Society (2024).
- Riddhimoy Pathak: Young Researcher Award from the Materials Research Society (2024).
- Riddhimoy Pathak and Vaishali Taneja: First Runner Up in Tata Steel Material NEXT 5.0 (2024).
- Dr. Arnab Mandal: National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (N.P.D.F.) (2024).
- Dr. Jayita Pradhan: INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship (2024).
- Debattam Sarkar: KPIT Shodh Best Research Award (For Best Ph.D. Thesis) (2024).
- Shuva Biswas: Chanakya Fellowship for Quantum Technology Research from I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation (2024).
- Ivy Maria: Best Poster Award at HyPe-23, IACS, Kolkata (2023).
- Vaishali Taneja: Best Poster Award at AFM-IHS, JNCASR, Bangalore (2023).
- Ivy Maria: Best Poster Award at International Winter School, JNCASR, Bangalore (2022).
- Dr. Jayita Pradhan and Dr. Subarna Das: Best Poster Award at JIWES 2023, JNCASR, Bangalore (2023).
- Debattam Sarkar: Runner-up for the 2023 International Thermoelectric Society (ITS) Goldsmid Award for Excellence in Research in Thermoelectrics by a Graduate (2023).
- Sushmita Chandra: Best Poster Award at the 12th edition of Bangalore Nano Conference, India (2022).
- Sushmita Chandra: Best Oral Presentation at the Royal Society of Chemistry ChemSci 2021: Leaders in Field Symposium (2021).
- Sushmita Chandra: Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Nano Science and Technology (ICONSAT), Kolkata, India (2020).
- Moinak Dutta: Best Poster Award at AFM-IHS, JNCASR, Bangalore (2020).
- Moinak Dutta: Best Oral Presentation, RSC Roadshow, JNCASR, Bangalore (2019).
- Moinak Dutta: Best Poster Award at AFM-IHS, JNCASR, Bangalore (2019).
- Sushmita Chandra: Amongst the top 5 finalists of Falling Walls Lab India 2019, organized by the DWIH – German Centre for Research and Innovation New Delhi and the DAAD – German Academic Exchange Service at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka, India (2019).
- Ananya Banik: KPIT Shodh Best Thesis Award in ‘Energy and Mobility’ conference, IISER, Pune, India (2019).
- Ananya Banik: International Travel Support Award, SERB, India (2018).
- Ananya Banik: Best Poster Award at ‘An International Symposium on Solid State Chemistry’, India (2016).
Best Ph. D. Thesis Awards
- Debattam Sarkar (2024)
- Paribesh Acharyya (2022)
- Manisha Samanta (2020)
- Manoj K. Jana (2018)
Best M. S. Thesis Awards
- Ivy Maria (2023)
- Animesh Das (2022)
- Ekashmi Rathore (2017)
