Awards Since 2006

2020:

• Dr. Arjun Bagchi (Associate Professor in Physics) has received the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship in Physical Sciences for the year 2018-19.

• Dr. Joydeep Chakrabortty (Associate Professor in Physics) has been selected by Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS) core-committee to join INYAS as a member, for five years, from January 2020.

2018:

• Prof. Mahendra K.Verma (Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Cray HPC award.)

• Dr. Saurabh Mani Tripathi (S. N. Seshadri Memorial Instrumentation Award in Physical Sciences for 2018)

• Dr. Joydeep Chakrabortty (Buti Foundation Award for Excellence in Theoretical Physics, Astrophysics and Biophysics for 2018)

• Prof. H.S.Mani (ex-professor from our department) will be honored as "Institute Fellow" for his distinguished service. The felicitation will be during the Foundation day celebrations on 2nd Nov, 2018.

• Ms. Pratyasha Sahani, Ph.D. student of Physics (Supervisor: Prof. R.Vijaya) has received the Best Poster Award in "OSI - International Symposium on Optics" organised at IIT Kanpur during 19-22 September, 2018. The title of her poster was "Planar photonic crystal as a polarizer for the out-of-plane incidence of light", The award consists of a certificate and a cash award of Rs. 3500.

• Dr. Anupam Guleria, who did her Ph.D in our dept earlier and is presently working at the Centre of Biomedical Research (CBMR), SGPGI Lucknow, has received the NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee award 2018.

• Mr. Dibya Jyoti Sivananda, Ph.D. student of Physics (Supervisor: Prof. Satyajit Banerjee) has received the Best Poster Award in "National Conference On Quantum Condensed Matter(Q-Mat)," organised at IISER Mohali, India from 25th - 27th July, 2018. The title of his poster was "Stepwise disintegration of magnetic domains in a EuB6 single crystal observed by magneto-optical imaging". The award consists of a certificate and a cash award of Rs. 5000.

• Sudarshana Laha, (Roll no. 17109869) Ph.D. student of Physics (Supervisor: Prof. Amit Dutta) has received the best poster award in "National Conference On Quantum Condensed Matter," organised at IISER Mohali, India from 25th - 27th July, 2018. The award consists of a certificate and a cash award of Rs. 5000.

• DORA Cash Award (Jan-Jun 2018):

  • 1. Bhavya Mishra (13109063)

  • 2. Ashutosh Kumar Singh (13109879)

• DORA Travel Award (Jan-Jun 2018) – minimal support only

  • 1. Anil Kumar Singh (12109062)

  • 2. Kamalika Nath (12109872)

  • 3. Rajesh Kumar (12209068)

  • 4. Pritam Kumar Roy (13109882)

  • 5. Girish Kulkarni (14209862)

• Dept Excellence Grant (Jan-Jun 2018)

  • 1. Abhishek Juyal (11209061)

  • 2. Anil Kumar Singh (12109062)

  • 3. Pritam Kumar Roy (13109882)

• Anil Kumar Singh, (Roll no. 12109062) Ph.D. student of Physics (supervisor: Prof. Anjan K. Gupta) has received FlatChem Elsevier best poster award in the 8th edition of largest European conference and exhibition in Graphene and 2D Materials (Graphene-2018), which was held at Dresden (Germany) during 26-29 June 2018. He received a certificate and prize money of EURO 200 for his work titled "Effect of interface states on the electronic properties of Graphene on SiO2 substrate".

• Rajesh Kumar, (Roll no. 12209068) Ph.D. student of Physics (supervisor: Prof. S. Anantha Ramakrishna) has been selected for the best elevator pitch talk award in 3rd International Conference on Plasmonics and Nano-Photonics (NanoPlasm 2018) held at Cetraro, Italy during June 10-15, 2018. He received a certificate and prize money of EUR250 for his work titled "Silver Columnar Film Based Efficient Nano-antennas For Emission From Nitrogen-vacancy Centers in Nanodiamonds".

• Prof. Sagar Chakraborty received the prestigious Gopal Das Bhandari Memorial Distinguished Teacher Award of IIT Kanpur for 2018 in the 51st Convocation (28th June 2018).

2017:

• Prof. Debashish Chowdhury has been elected, and appointed, to serve as a member of the "C6 Commission: Biological Physics" by the 29th General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) for a three year term.

• A news article in Nature India covers the work done in Professor Mahendra Verma's laboratory and can be seen here: https://www.natureasia.com/en/nindia/article/10.1038/nindia.2017.139

2016:

• Prof. Subramanian Anantha Ramakrishna received the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, India's highest prize for excellence in science, mathematics and technology, in the physical sciences category in the year 2016.

• Prof. Mahendra K. Verma - Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Teachers Award, 2016.

2015:

• Prof. R. C. Budhani - member of the JMMM Editorial Board, 2015

• Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee - Research award of Overseas Partners Invitation Program, as part of Asia Bridge Program, Shizuoka University, Japan (January - March 2015)

2014:

• Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee - Associate Editor, frontiers in PHYSICS , (Plasma Physics). (2014 - present).

2013:

• Dr. Debashish Choudhury - Member, Selection Committee (Physics), Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, 2013

• Dr. Debashish Chowdhury - The paper, "Modeling stochastic kinetics of molecular machines at multiple levels: from molecules to modules" selected in "Best of 2013", BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL 104, 2331 (2013), Biophysical Society, USA.

• Dr. Saikat Ghosh - 2nd Prize for his contribution "It From Bit or Bit From It ?" (in collaboration with Angelo Bassi, ICTP and T P Singh, TIFR) in the 2013 Essay Contest held by FQXi (together with Templeton Foundation and Scientific American)

• Dr. Amit Kumar Agarwal - NASI Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist award, 2013

• Dr. Debashish Chowdhury - J C Bose National Fellowship, SERB / DST, 2013

• Dr. Sagar Chakraborty - Inspire Faculty Fellowship by INSA & DST, 2013

• Dr. R C Budhani - Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT Delhi, 2013

• Dr. S A Ramakrishna, Editorial Board, Journal of Electromagnetic Optics, 2013

• Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee - Member, International Scientific Committee (ISC), International Conference on the phenomena of ionized gases (ICPIG), (2013 - present).

2012:

• Dr. S A Ramakrishna - Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the DST for Physics, 2012

• Dr. Amit Kumar Agarwal - Inspire Faculty Fellowship by INSA & DST, 2012

• Dr. Satyajit Banerjee - continuing on the Editorial Board of Journal of Superconductor Science and Technology (Institute of Physics, UK Publication)

• Dr. Satyajit Banerjee - P K Kelkar Young Faculty Research Fellowship, 2012

2011:

• Dr. R C Budhani - J C Bose National Fellowship, SERB / DST, 2011

• Dr. Satyajit Banerjee - NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award, 2011

• Dr. Dipankar Chakrabarti - Editorial Board of ISRN High Energy Physics Journal, 2011

• Dr. T Sarkar - Editorial Board of ISRN High Energy Physics Journal, 2011

• Dr. Y N Mohapatra - Chair, International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices, IWPSD, 2011

• Dr. Soumik Mukhopadhyay - Young Achiever Award, 2011

• Dr. Soumik Mukhopadhyay - DAE Young Scientist Award, 2011

• Dr. Harshwardhan Wanare - Erasmus Mundus Fellowship, 2010

• Dr. Debashish Choudhury - Elected as Fellow of INSA, New Delhi, 2010

• Dr. Sudeep Bhattacharjee - Australian Government Endeavour Research Award, 2010

2009:

• Dr. Debashish Choudhury - Editor, European Physical Journal-B (2006-2009)

• Dr. Y N Mohapatra - Associate Editorship, Journal of Nanophotonics (SPIE), 2009

• Dr. Anjan Kumar Gupta - P K Kelkar Research Fellowship at IITK, 2009

• Dr. T Sarkar - P K Kelkar Research Fellowship at IITK, 2009

• Dr. S A Ramakrishna - P K Kelkar Research Fellowship at IITK, 2009

• Dr. R Vijaya - Royal Society Bilateral Exchange Grant, 2009

• Dr. R Vijaya - Erasmus Mundus Fellowship, 2009

• Dr. Sudeep Bhattacharjee - Buti Foundation Award (Plasma Sc. & Tech.), 2009

• Dr. R C Budhani - Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, 2009

2006:

• Dr. Mahendra K. Verma - Swarnajayanti fellowship, 2006