Honors and Awards
Faculty:
Dr. Sanjay Singh has been elected as Editorial Advisory Board Member of Chemistry, Selected for the period 2022-2026.
Dr. Debashis Adhikari has been appointed as an Editorial Board member of the Journal Chemistry Open (a journal of Wiley and Chemistry Europe) in 2021.
Dr. R Vijaya Anand has been selected for the Bronze Medal for the year 2022 from the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI)
Dr. R Vijaya Anand has been appointed as an Editorial Board member of the journal Resonance in 2021
Dr. R. Vijaya Anand has been appointed as the CRSI Local Chapter Convener in Chandigarh/Amritsar region (2020 -)
Dr. S. S. V. Ramasastry was awarded the 'RSC Research Fund' grant 2020, Outstanding Reviewer award for Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry in2018, A. V. Rama Rao Research Foundation (AVRA) Young Scientist Award 2018, Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) Young Scientist award 2018.
Dr. S. S. V. Ramasastry has been an Editorial Advisory Board member of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry since December 2017
Dr. Jino George has received the MHRD-STARS grant 2020.
Dr. S Maiti and Santanu K Pal have received the MHRD-STARS grant 2020.
DST-FIST Application (2019) was defended (by Dr. S A Babu (Head, DCS), Dr. S. Singh and Dr. A K De) and the Department has received the sanction for Departmental NMR Research facility.
Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay was appointed in the Editorial Board Members of Biophysical Journal in the year 2020. Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay has been appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society (2019-2021).
Dr. Santanu K Pal has received the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal for the year 2020.
Dr. Debrina Jana has been selected as a Community Board member in Nanoscale Horizons (RSC).
DST/Early Career Award (2019) was received by Dr. S Maiti and Raj Kumar Roy.
Dr. Monika Sharma has received Bharat Vikas Award for the year 2019.
Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay has received the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal for the year 2019.
DST/Early Career Award (2017) was received by Dr. Debashis A.
Dr. S. S. V. Ramasastry has received the DST-Swarnajayanti Fellowship for the year 2018. Dr. S. S. V. Ramasastry has received the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal for the year 2018. Dr. S. S. V. Ramasastry has received Thieme Chemistry Journal’s Award 2017 [Chosen by the Editorial Boards of Synlett, Synthesis and Synfacts] (2017).
Dr. Arijit Kumar De has received DST travel fellowship to attend the Gordon Conference on “Quantum Control of Light and Matter”, USA. (Application No. - ITS/Off-502/2017-18) (2017).
Dr. Arijit Kumar De has received INSA travel fellowship to attend the Gordon Conference on “Quantum Control of Light and Matter”, USA. (INSA travel Grant No. SS/INSA/2017/758) (2017).
Dr. Balanarayan P received the best teacher’s award from IISER Mohali (2017).
Dr. Arijit Kumar De has received the SERB, DST Early Career Research Award. (Grant No: ECR/2016/000467) (2016).
Dr. S. S. V. Ramasastry has received the young scientist award from the organizing committee of "Chemical Frontiers" (2016).
Dr. S. S. V. Ramasastry has been admitted as a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) (2016).
Dr. Sabyasachi Rakshit has received Wellcome Trust/DBT Intermediate Fellowship, DBT. (2015).
Dr. Santanu K Pal has received the INSA medal for Young Scientist (2015).
Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay has received Commonwealth Science Follow-on Grant from the Royal Society London (2015).
Dr. Santanu K Pal has received the NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee award (2015).
Dr. Santanu K Pal has received an International Travel award from DST-SERB to attend in Optics of liquid crystals conference held in Sopot, Poland. (2015).
Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay has received the International Travel Award from the Immunology Foundation to attend the Protein Society meeting held in San Diego, California, USA. (2014).
Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay has received the Prof. B.K. Bachhawat International Travel Award for Young Scientists to attend the Biophysical Society meeting held in San Francisco, California, USA. (2014).
Dr. Santanu K Pal has received Young Achiever Award from DAE-BRNS (2014).
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandran received the best teacher’s award from IISER Mohali (2013).
Dr. Santanu K Pal has received DAE Young Scientist Research Award (2012).
Dr. Sanjay Singh was elected as Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences in Bangalore (2009-2013).
Dr. Sanjay Singh, S A Babu and Vijaya Anand have independently received the DST FAST Track Research Award.
Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay has been selected as a Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences. (2009-2013).
Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay has been invited to contribute a profile annual issue of ‘Who’s who in Fluorescence’ (Published by Springer. Editor: Chris D. Geddes, University of Maryland Baltimore County) (2009).
Students & Postdocs/RA’s:
Ms. Mamta Bhandari was awarded the best poster presentation from ACS Omega for the poster presented in International Conference on Main-Group Molecules to Materials (MMM-II) in December 2021 organized by NISER Bhubaneswar.
Ms. Amreen K. Bains was awarded the prestigious graduate research award 2021 from Dr. K.V.Rao Scientific Society, Hyderabad.
Ms. Kirti Singh received the second best oral presentation award during the international Conference (Virtual) on Recent Advances in Chemical Sciences (ICRACS) 2021.
Mr. Vikramjeet Singh received the best poster award during the international Conference (Virtual) on Recent Advances in Chemical Sciences (ICRACS) 2021.
Mr. Ayanangshu Biswas was awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) 2020.
Dr. Siddheshwar Bankar received the 'SaiLife-NOST best thesis award 2020'.
Mr. Jay Prakash was awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) 2020
Dr. Bishnupada Satpathi received the 'SaiLife-NOST best thesis award 2019'
Dr. Uttam K. Mishra received the second best poster award during the 'Recent Advances in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry (RABMC)' symposium held at NIPER Mohali on 30 Aug, 2019.
Ms. Anjana R. Kamath (5th Year BSMS student) received the DAAD Fellowship-2019.
Ms. Labhini received the Best Poster Award in the'16th conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association', held in Singapore (2019).
Dr. Gayathri S Singaraju received International Travel Award by EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation.
Mr. Jagadish P Hazra received International Travel Award and Invitation for an Oral presentation in the Biophysical Society Meeting, 2019, USA.
Ms. Samita Mishra received ACS Omega Award, 26th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry, 2020.
Ms. Sakshi Chawla received ACS Applied Energy Materials Award, 26th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry, 2020.
Mr. Jaibir S received the SPM PhD fellowship from CSIR.
Mr. Mayank Saraswat has been selected for the forthcoming 70th Nobel Laureates meeting at Lindau, Germany through DST.
Dr. Subhash Chander (post-doc) has received the ACS CAS Future Leaders Program Award, 2019. Link from ACS.
Ms. Yogita Silori has received the International Travel Support (ITS) from Science and Engineering Research Board, DST for attending photochemistry Gordon Research Conference at Stonehill College, Massachusetts, USA (2019).
Ms. Anita Devi has received the travel grant from International Travel Support (ITS) from Science and Engineering Research Board, DST for CLEO/Euorope-EQEC at Munich, Germany (2019).
Ms. Priyanka Dogra, has received the international travel award from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) to attend the EMBO phase separation workshop that will be held at Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany in February 2019.
Dr. Anupa Majumdar (NPDF) has been selected for an oral presentation at the Biophysical Society meeting that will be held in Baltimore, USA in February 2019.
Mr. Jagadish P Hazra received the Best Poster Award during ACS on Campus, Feb 2018. Mr. Jagadish P Hazra received the Best Poster Award in FCS 2018, Nov 2018. Mr. Jagadish P Hazra received BPS Travel Grant, USA, 2018.
Ms. Shaina Dhamija has received travel grant from "Society de Biophysique" (Biophysical Society of Canada) for attending Faraday Discussions (on Photoinduced Processes in Nucleic Acids and Proteins) at Trivandrum, India (2018).
Ms. Harleen Kaur received the best poster award in “Chemistry Conference for Young Scientists” held in Blankenberge, Belgium (2018).
Mr. Bishnu S received the best oral presentation award and Mr. Rajendra S received the best poster presentation award during the 'Emerging Trends in Drugs Development and Natural Products (ETDDNP 2018)' conference held at the University of Delhi during 12-14 Jan, 2018.
Ms. Ipsita Pani received the best poster award at “ACS in Campus” Roadshow in February, 2018 held at IISER Mohali.
Ms. Indu Bala and Ms. Ipsita Pani received the registration fee and travel support to attend the workshop titled “Soft and Active Matter” scheduled from 11th – 17th February 2018 organized at UGC-Networking Resource Centre (UGC-NRC), School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
Ms. Indu Verma's liquid crystal picture was selected as the featured artwork of June 2018 in the International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS) website.
Ms. Nazma Begum’s liquid crystal picture has been selected as the featured artwork of December 2018 in the International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS) website.
Mr. Joydip De was awarded International Travel Support from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) for attending International Liquid Crystal Conference (ILCC) 2018, held at Kyoto, Japan.
Ms. Indu Verma, Ms. Indu Bala and Mr. Joydip De were awarded International Liquid Crystal Conference (ILCC) 2018 registration fee waiver by Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI), Kent State University (KSU), USA for attending International Liquid Crystal Conference (ILCC) 2018 held at Kyoto, Japan.
Dr. Rajib Kumar Nandi, received the Best Poster Award in National Post Doctoral Fellow (NPDF) online poster competition 2017-18, jointly organized by the American Chemical Society via ACS Publications and Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India. The award ceremony "1st Conclave of SERB NPDF Awardees" was held at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi on July 25, 2018.
Ms. Vidhika Punjani received the ACS best poster award at “Frontiers in Chemical Sciences (FICS) 2018” in December 2018 held at IIT Guwahati.
Ankit Somani (BS-MS student) received the best poster @IINCM2017, Dec 2017 held at NISER Bhubaneswar.
Mr. Deependra Bawari has been awarded an "MTIC" best poster award at the 17th symposium of 'Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (MTIC-VII)' held at CSIR-NCL, Pune and IISER Pune during 11-14 December, 2017.
Mr. Bishnupada Sathpathi received the BEST poster award from the organisers of the 'Thematic Conference in Chemical Sciences (TC2S-2017): Sustainable Chemistry' held at IIT Ropar during May 15-16, 2017.
Mr. Deependra Bawari received an International Travel award from DST-SERB to attend the 12th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry, 02-06 July, 2017, Cambridge, London (UK) (2017).
Mr. Deependra Bawari attended the 11th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry, 10-14 July, 2016. Travel support by IISER Mohali (2016).
Ms. Seema Dhiman received the Eli-Lilly Outstanding Thesis Award-2016.
Dr. Anamika Mukhopadhyay (Postdoc) has received CSIR Pool Scientist award (2015).
Ms. Indu Verma won The Dewan Jawahar Lal Nayar Memorial prize at the 21st National Conference on Liquid Crystals (NCLC) held at VSSD College, CSJM University, Kanpur and received best poster award (2014).
Ms. Sumyra Sidiq has received an International Travel award from DST-SERB to attend the International Liquid crystal conference (ILCC) held in Trinity college, Dublin, Ireland (2014).
Ms. Gurpreet Kaur has received best oral presentation award in 42nd National Seminar on Crystallography held in JNU, New Delhi (2013).
Ms. Sadhika Khullar has defended her thesis entitled “Metal-Organic Coordination Networks Comprised of Divalent Metal Centers and Multiatom Carboxylate Linkers“ under the supervision of Dr. Sanjay Mandal and graduated as a first doctoral student from the department (2013).
Ms. Shilpa Setia won The Dewan Jawahar Lal Nayar Memorial prize at the 20th National Conference on Liquid Crystals (NCLC) (best poster presentation) (2013).
Ms. Sumyra Sidiq has been adjudged the best in poster presentation and won The Dewan Jawahar Lal Nayar Memorial prize at the 19th NCLC held at the Thapar University, Patiala (2012).
Ms. Gurpreet Kaur has received Best poster award in 20th International Conference on the Chemistry of Organic Solid State held in IISc Bangalore (2010).
The following BS-MS students received fellowships for summer internships abroad and other institutes within India.
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Name of the student/Batch |
Place of visit |
Year |
Fellowship |
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Kapil Dave /MS08 |
Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany |
2012 |
DAAD-WISE fellowship |
|
Manish Pareek /MS08 |
University of Münster, Germany |
2012 |
DAAD-WISE fellowship |
|
Asif Equbal /MS08 |
ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
2012 |
Summer internship |
|
Gaurav Kumar /MS08 |
IST Austria |
2012 |
Summer internship |
|
Agastya P. Bhati /MS09 |
Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany |
2012 |
DAAD-WISE Young Ambassador |
|
Agastya P. Bhati /MS09 |
University of Coimbra, Portugal |
2013 |
Summer internship |
|
Deepak Verma /MS09 |
St. Andrews University, Scotland |
2013 |
Summer internship |
|
Gargi Satish Jagdale /MS10 |
Taiwan |
2014 |
Winter internship for two weeks |
|
Rupali Chawla /MS10 |
Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany |
2014 |
Inspire-FU Summer |
|
Shwetha Srinivasan /MS11 |
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany |
2014 |
Post Lindau Fellowship |
|
Shwetha Srinivasan /MS11 |
University of Leipzig, Germany |
2015 |
DFG for stay and subsistence in Germany, INSPIRE travel grant for travel |
|
Srijit Mukherjee /MS11 |
University of Heidelberg, Germany |
2015 |
DAAD-WISE fellowship |
|
Aayush /MS12 |
University of Münster, Germany |
2015 |
DAAD-WISE fellowship |
|
Divita Gupta /MS13 |
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmadabad, India |
2016 |
Summer Internship |
|
Rishabh Gupta /MS14 |
BARC, Mumbai |
2016 |
Indian academy of sciences (IAS) |
|
Anjana /MS15 |
CUSAT, Cochin |
2016 |
VSRP fellowship |
|
Priyanka Bansal /MS13 |
Indiana University, USA |
2017 |
Summer Internship |
|
Divita Gupta /MS13 |
University of Rennes 1, France |
2017 |
Summer Internship |
|
Rishabh Gupta /MS14 |
TIFR Hyderabad |
2017 |
VSRP fellowship |
|
Himanshi Singh /MS14 |
IISER, Pune |
2017 |
SSPC fellowship |
|
Vidhyalakshmi. S /MS14 |
TIFR, Hyderabad |
2017 |
VSRP fellowship |
|
Parth Raval /MS14 |
BARC, Mumbai |
2017 |
Institute fellowship |
|
Anjana /MS15 |
TIFR TCIS Summer Res. Hyderabad |
2017 |
VSRP Fellowship |
|
Vaibhav Pal /MS15 |
Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Bangalore |
2017 |
ROIS |
|
Anjana Kammath /MS15 |
University of Chicago |
2018 |
S N Bose Fellowship |
|
Anjana Kammath /MS15 |
MPI MCBG, Germany |
2019 |
DAAD Fellowship |
|
Sudha Yadav /MS15 |
University of Rochester |
2019 |
USA summer program |
|
Arjun Chowdhury /MS16 |
IISER Bhopal |
2019 |
Inspire |
|
Rosmi Reji /MS16 |
IISc Bangalore |
2019 |
IPC-SRFP 2019 |
|
Kirti Devi /MS16 |
IITBombay |
2019 |
No Fellowship |
|
Adarsh S Kurup /MS16 |
NIIST- CSIR, Thiruvananthapuram |
2019 |
Inspire |
|
A. Jayachandran /MS16 |
IISc Bangalore |
2019 |
Inspire |
|
Salman Faeris K /MS16 |
Calicut university |
2019 |
Calicut University |
|
Divya Suman /MS16 |
TIFR, Mumbai |
2019 |
TIFR, Mumbai |
|
Shradha Sapru /MS16 |
LMU-Munich |
2019 |
DAAD-WISE |
|
Sparsh Tyagi /MS16 |
Waterloo University |
2019 |
Mitacs |
|
Nikita Singh /MS16 |
Panjab University |
2019 |
Inspire |
|
Sreelakshmi V /MS16 |
RRI Bangalore |
2019 |
Visiting students program |
|
Sajan Chinnan /MS16 |
Nagasaki University |
2019 |
Inspire |