Awards, Fellowships and Honors: ​ 2022 - A. V. Rama Rao Foundation Prize Lecture in Chemistry by JNCASR for the year 2021 2021 - Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT Bombay for the year 2021 2021 - SASTRA-CNR Rao Award in Chemistry & Materials Science for the year 2021 2020 - Selected for the 2020 Edition of the Asian Scientist 100 (AS100) 2020 - Prof. W. U. Malik Memorial Award, IIT Roorkee 2020 - Dr. Ghanshyam Srivastava Memorial Award, Indian Chemical Society 2020 - J. C. Bose National Fellowship - Second Term 2021-25, SERB/DST, Government of India 2020 - Re-elected as Vice-President of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) 2020-23 2019 - Infosys Prize in Physical Sciences for 2019, Infosys Science Foundation 2018 - Featured in an Author Profile in the journal Angewandte Chemie 2018 - Prof. R. C. Mehrotra Commemoration Lecture Gold Medal, Indian Science Congress 2018 - CRSI Silver Medal, Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) 2018 - Prof. K. N. Ganesh Endowment Lecture Award, IISER Pune 2017 - Elected as President of the Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES) 2017 - National Prize for Research on Interfaces of Chemistry and Biology 2017 - Rajib Goyal Prize in Chemical Science by Kurukshetra University for 2014-15 2017 - Bhagyatara Award by Panjab University for the year 2016 2017 - Elected as Vice-President of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) 2017-20 2016 - Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (FNA) 2016 - JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan 2016 - Elected as Vice-President of the Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES) 2016 - ISCB Award for Excellence - 2016, Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists 2015 - J. C. Bose National Fellowship 2016-20, SERB/DST, Government of India 2014 - Dr. R.A. Mashelkar Endowment Lecture, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 2014 - Prof. S.K. Pradhan Endowment Lecture Award, ICT, Mumbai 2013 - "Asian Rising Star" Commemorative plaque, 15th Asian Chemical Congress, Singapore 2013 - Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, London (FRSC) 2012 - Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2012, CSIR, Government of India 2012 - Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc) 2012 - IIT Bombay Best Review Paper Award 2011 2012 - AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award 2011 - A Global Award by AstraZeneca 2012 - Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc) 2011 - IIT Bombay Best Research Paper Award 2010 2011 - CRSI Bronze Medal, Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) 2010 - RSC-West India Young Scientist Award by RSC, London 2010 - CDRI Award for Excellence in Drug Research, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow 2009 - UKIERI Standard Research Award, DST, MHRD and British Council 2008 - TWAS Young Affiliate, The World Academy of Sciences 2008 - Swarnajayanti Fellowship for 2006-7, DST, Government of India 2006 - Ramanna Fellowship, DST, Government of India 2005 - AvH Foundation Equipment Award, AvH-Stiftung, Bonn, Germany 2005 - IUPAC Young Chemists Award, 40th IUPAC Congress, Beijing, China 2001 - Skaggs Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA 2000 - Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, AvH-Stiftung, Bonn, Germany