Awards and Honors
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- Was awarded Friedrich Wilhelm
Bessel Award for the year 2010 by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation.
- Was awarded gIndian Society
of Chemists and Biologists Award for Excellence, 2010.
- Was awarded gChemical Society
of Japan Award for Young Chemists for the year 2008h
- Was awarded gKhwarizmi
International Awardh Iranian Top Science Prize for the year 2008 for the
Applied research in nanotechnology, gLaureate of KIAh by UNESCO, UNHO,
IROST and WIPO. The award was given by the H.E. the president of Iran. Prof.
CNR Rao has also been given this award for the year 2008.
- Was awarded Asian Excellent
Young Researcher Lectureship Award, 2008, by the president of chemical
society of Japan (Prof. Nakanishi, President of CSJ, Japan).
- Received the world most
prestigious fellowship, ICYS Fellowship from National Institute for
Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan (2004-2006)
- Award for Encouragement of
Research in Materials Science, 2008, at the IUMRS International
Conference in Asia 2008 (Pavuluri Srinivasu and Ajayan Vinu)
- Was appointed as the Adjunct
Professor of Yonsei University, South Korea
- Was appointed as the Adjunct
Professor of Anna University, India
- Was appointed as the Adjunct
Associate Professor (2007 to till date), Hokkaido University, Hokkaido,
Japan
- Was appointed as the Adjunct
Principal Researcher (2007 to till date), Korean Research Institute of
Chemical Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.
- Was appointed as the NIMS
Ambassador to India – 2006 to 2010.
- PhD thesis examiner of
Max Planck Institute, Postdam, Germany
- Thesis examiner of Cairo
University, Egypt
- PhD thesis examiner of
University of Pune, India
- PhD thesis examiner of
Acharya Nagarjuna University, India
- PhD thesis examiner of
Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India
- PhD thesis examiner of
Anna University, India
- Editorial board member of
journal of nano science and nanotechnology
- Editorial board member of
Open Materials Science
- Editorial board member of
Open Catalysis Journal
- Editorial board member of
Open Biomaterials Journal
- International Project
Advisory Board member of ICBIN, Yonsei University, South Korea
- International Project
Advisory Board member of Kent State University, USA
- Project review committee
member of King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia
- Project review committee
member of Chili Science and Technology, Chilli
- Selection Committee Member of
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize of India, which is the Top Science
Prize in India
- Poster award selection
committee member, International conference on advanced materials 2008,
BARC, Mumbai
- Poster award (Young Scientist
award) selection committee member, IUMRS-2008, Nagoya, Japan
- Gave several invited lectures
in the well reputed universities and national institutes in America,
Australia, Canada, Germany, Netherland, Belgium, Italy, South Korea, South
Africa, China, Czech Republic, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Japan.
- Chaired a session in the
IUMRS-2008 conference which was held in Nagoya, Japan in December 2008.
- Chaired a session in the
International conference which was held in Yonsei University, Korea in
November 2008.
- Chaired a session in the IMMS
2008 conference which was held in Namur, Belgium, September 2008.
- Chaired a session in the
International conference on recent progresses and perspectives in nanoporous
and mesoporous materials, S. Korea, July 2008.
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Chaired a
session in the International conference on nanoporous and nanocomposte
materials 2008 which was held in South Korea in may 2008
- Chaired a session in the
Nanopore V conference which was held in Vancouer, Canada, May 2008.
- Chaired a session in the
International conference on advanced materials, NEERI, India, October 2007.
- Chaired a session in the IMMS
2006 conference which was held in Shangai, China, August 2006.
- Chaired a session in the
ICONN 2006 conference which was held in Brisbane, Australia, July 2006.
- Chaired a Zeolitic materials
session in the 3rd FEZA international conference on micro and
mesporous materials, Praha, Czech, August 2005.
- Chaired a nanoporous carbon
session in the international conference on nanoporous materials, Niagra
Falls, Ontario, Canada, June 2005.
- Chaired a complete
nanotechnology session in the international conference on advanced materials
and processing held at IIT Kharagpur, India, December 2004.
- Chaired a complete biomaterials
session in the first international Japan-UK symposium on nanotechnology held
at Tsukuba, NIMS, Japan, September 2004.
- Given a chance to meet and
interact with the Nobel Laureates on a personal basis in the 52nd
Nobel Laureates meeting held at Lindau, Germany, July 2002
- Selected as Excellent P & G
Intern Fellow for the European Research Programme 2002, held at
Schwalbach Technical Centre, Procter & Gamble, Germany (One among the total
of 12 students were selected from all over the Europe)
- Visited as a Guest Scientist
at the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, November, 2002, India
- Junior Research Fellowship
(JRF, Department of Atomic Energy, India) to pursue Doctoral studies at Anna
University, India
International Advisory board member of the below conferences:
· The
Sixth International Symposium on NANOPOROUS MATERIALS (NANO-6), Banff, AB,
Canada on August 21-24, 2011
· 5th
ISCBC-2011, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, India, Feb 5 to 7, 2011.
· International
Workshop & Symposium on the Synthesis and Characterisation of
Glass/Glass-Ceramics (IWSSCGGC-2010), Pune, India, July 7th 10th
2010.
· 3rd
International Conference on Nanostructures, Kish Island, March 10-12th
2010.
· NANOMEET-2010,
Anna University, Chennai, India.
· International
Workshop On Advances in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Anna University,
Chennai, India, October 28th -30th 2009.
· The
Seventh International Symposium Effects of Surface Heterogeneity in Adsorption
and Catalysis on Solids,
Kazimierz,
Poland, July 4th to july 11th 2009.
· 3rd
International Symposium on Advanced Materials, Daegu, South Korea during Feb.
5-6, 2009.
· International
Symposium on Nanocomposites and Nanoporous Materials, South Korea, May 14-16,
2008.
· International
conference on Nanomaterial and its applications (ICNA-2007), India.
· International
Symposium on Nanostructure and Nanoporous Materials, South Korea, February, 2006.
Reviewer of the following
journals (more than 70 International journals)
Angewante chemie international; The
journal of American chemical society; Advanced materials; Advanced functional
materials; Chemistry: a European journal; European journal of inorganic
chemistry; Chemical Communications; Inorganic Chemistry; Chemistry of materials;
Langmuir; Physical chemistry and chemical physics; Crystal growth and design;
Environmental science and technology; Industrial engineering and chemical
research; Soft matter; Journal of physical chemistry B; Carbon; Applied physics
letter; Journal of materials chemistry; Chemistry- an Asian journal; Journal of
materials research; Solid state communications; Journal of chemical technology
and biotechnology; Journal of molecular catalysis A: Chemical; Applied catalysis
A General; Applied catalysis B Environmental; Journal of Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology; Catalysis communications; Catalysis letters; Catalysis today;
Chemistry letters; Microporous and mesoporous materials; Studies in surface
science and catalysis; Physiological magazine letters; Food hydroloids;
Czechoslovak chemical communications; Materials research bulletin; Journal of
American ceramic society; Journal of photochemistry and photobiology;
International journal of nanotechnology; Journal of alloys and compounds;
Brazilian journal of chemical engineering; Journal of Biomedical Materials
Research Part B: Applied biomaterials; Materials Chemistry and Physics; Chemical
society reviews; Journal of applied physics; Chemical physics letters; Applied
clay science; Solid state sciences; Encyclopedia of Industrial biotechnology;
AIChE Journal; Journal of the American ceramic society; Materials science and
engineering C; Applied surface science; Materials Letters, Advanced Synthesis
and Catalysis; Nanoscale; Arabian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Journal of
Hazaordous Materials, Open Catalysis Journal, Journal of Nanoparticle Research;
Journal of Memberane Science; Polish Journal of chemical technology, Collection
of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications; International Journal of
Nanotechnology; ChemSusChem; Journal of physical chemistry C; Bulletin of
chemical society of Japan; Journal of biomedical research; Journal of brazillian
chemical society; International journal of molecular science; Journal of
nanoparticle research;
Membership in
professional bodies
- Editorial board member of
journal of nano science and nanotechnology
- Editorial board member of
Open Materials Science
- Editorial board member of
Open Catalysis Journal
- Editorial board member of
Open Biomaterials Journal
- International Project
Advisory Board member of ICBIN, Yonsei University
- Japan chemical society
- Catalysis society of India
- Mesoporous materials society
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