Awards and Scholarships 2017: Award of Professor DS Kothari Chair of Indian National Science Academy 2014: A 4-year Research Excellence Award (PES) from the CNRS 2011: Co-lauréat du Prix de l’Innovation 2011, Fondation Ecole Polytechnique 2010: A 4-year Research Excellence Award (PES) from the CNRS 2008: Best Talk of the Day Award, Porous Semiconductors Science and Technology (PSST 2008) 2000: National Research Council Canada (NRCC) Outstanding Achievement Award 1998-1999: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) fellowship 1989-1993: Postgraduate Scholarship from the French Government 1985-1989: Scholarship from the Algerian Ministry of Education