AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

Group Leader (Dr. Chandra Shekhar Sharma)

  • Diamond Jubilee Research Intern Award (2004), National Metallurgical Laboratory, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India
  • Graduate Research Assistantship, Ministry of HRD (2005-2010)
  • Best Poster Award at ICONSAT-2008, February 26-28, 2008, Chennai, India.
  • Best AFM Micrograph in Micrography Contest 2009 organized by Materials and Metallurgical Department, IITK
  • 3rd Prize in Best SEM Micrograph in Micrography Contest 2009 organized by Materials and Metallurgical Department, IITK.
  • Best Poster Award in an International Symposium on Hydrogen and Energy Storage as a part of Energy Conclave-2010, Jan. 14th, 2010, IIT Kanpur
  • IITK Excellence Award for Community Services-2011
  • Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE)'s Innovative Students Project award for Best Doctoral Thesis, 2011
  • DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award, 2014
  • Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award (Technological edge category) 2014
  • DST Young Scientist Award, 2015
  • Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award 2015
  • SERB Indo-US Fellowship 2016, by Indo-US Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF), New Delhi
  • Institute of Engineers (India) Young Engineer Award 2016 in Chemical Engineering Division
  • Member, Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS) (2017-22)
  • NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award 2017
  • Member, National Core Committee, INYAS (2018-20)
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Carbon-MEMS in Nature's Microsystems and Nanoengineering Journal (To be published in July 2019)
  • Member, National Academy of sciences, India (NASI), 2019
  • DST-TSDP Project on Direct Recycling of Polystyrene Waste is highlighted as a success story in DST Annual report 2017-18. Special coverage on National and International print and electronic media
  • Founding Director, M/s. Restyro Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (A Start-up incubated at IITH)
  • Member, Expert Advisory Committee on Waste Management, DST-TSDP (2019-22)
  • Associate Editor, Special Issue on Carbon-MEMS in Nature's Microsystems and Nanoengineering Journal (December 2019)
  • DAE Young Achiever Award for the contribution in the area of Condensed Matter Physics, Dec. 2019
  • Member, SERB-SUPRA Screening Committee, Engineering Sciences, Jan. 2020, Jan. 2021
  • Special Invitee of Project Advisory Committee (PAC) - 'Materials & Engineering Sciences' of International Bilateral Cooperation Division (IBCD), Department of Science & Technology, GoI, Feb. 2020
  • Elected as Chairperson, Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS), 2020-22. INYAS is only recognized young scientist's academy of India working towards scientific capacity building, science communication and popularization especially among young students. As a Chair, INYAS, taken several initiatives for women in STEM, women leadership in Science, science communication in local languages and international collaboration with other National Young academies for Science promotion.
  • Member, Global Young Academy (GYA), (2020-25)
  • Co-Lead, GYA Young Scientists Ambassador Program (YSAP); Organized a virtual mission between India and Netherland for Scientific knowledge exchange between research scholars
  • DST-SwarnaJayanti Fellowship in Engineering Sciences, 2020
  • Member, Executive Committee, FUTURISTIC AND ADVANCED MANUFACTURING FORUM OF INDIA (FAMFI), NIFFT, Ranchi
  • PAC Member, Technology Development Programme under Technology Development & Transfer Division, DST

Group Members (Research Scholars)

  • Alok Kumar Pandey wins First Prize in HPCL New Generation Ideation Contest 2020 at Undergraduate level (Feb. 2021)
  • Alok Kumar Pandey INAE Innovative Student Projects Award 2020 for Bachelor's Project (Dec. 2020 )
  • Akash Nathani wins the IITH Excellence in Research (PhD Students) Award (Aug 2020).
  • Ankeet Krishnaa wins the IITH Excellence in Academics (Students) Award (Aug 2020).
  • Mamidi Suresh wins the Best Poster Award in 2nd KPIT shodh Awards at IISER-Pune (Jan 2020)
  • Vikram wins INAE Best M.Tech. Thesis Award.
  • Mamidi Suresh wins First Prize in NanoArtography International competition.
  • Poonam Rani wins Best Poster Presentation Award in National Conference on Carbon Materials.
  • Poonam Rani wins Best Poster Presentation Award in National conference on Solid State Ionics.
  • Mayur Gaikwad wins Best Poster Presentation Award in CMEMS - 2018 Conference.
  • Suresh Mamidi wins Best Oral Presentation Award in Chemference - 2018 held at IIT Bombay.
  • INAE innovative student project award for 2015, for M. Tech thesis (Shital Yadav)
  • Shital Yadav wins Institute Silver Medal For Academic Excellence in 2015.
  • Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards 2015 (Shital Yadav, I. Manipujitha, Tulika Rastogi)
  • Manohar Kakunuri wins Best Oral Presentation Award in Department Day, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad on February 14, 2015
  • Shital Yadav wins Best Poster Presentation Award in Department Day, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad on February 14, 2015
  • Anindita Laha, Shital Yadav wins RSC Best Poster Prize in International Conference, MACRO 2015 held in Kolkata during January 23-26, 2015
  • Srinadh Mattaparthi participates in Power of Shunya: Season 2 on ET Now and awarded as Episode Winner.
  • Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards 2014 with Technological-Edge Award (Srinadh Mattaparthi)
  • INAE innovative student project award for 2013, for M. Tech thesis (Srinadh Mattaparthi)
  • Academic Excellence Award 2013-14 for M.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) (Shital Yadav).
  • Manohar Kakunuri wins Best Oral Presentation Award in Department Day, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad, 2011