Invited Talks and Awards:

Invited talks, Awards and Honors

• Innovation Changemaker Award (2025): Received recognition as an Innovation Changemaker at INNOVASTHAN by the Council of Industrial Innovation and Research (CIIR), Bangalore.
• Editor of Distinction Awards, Springer Nature (2025):Received the Editorial Contribution Award for meticulous assessment of submissions and rigorous peer review management, ensuring scientific accuracy in the published record. Also awarded the Springer Nature Author Service Award for outstanding contributions toward enhancing the author experience and maintaining an efficient, constructive, and fair peer review process.
• Hiyoshi Environmental Award (2024): Received in recognition of novel, innovative, and outstanding scientific research and its application in the field of environmental conservation and protection in India. https://www.hiyoshi-india.com/hiyoshi-awards/
• Top 2%World Scientists (2022 to 2024): Appeared on the Stanford University list of the top 2% most influential scientists in the analysis of Indian researchers. https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7
• ISEES Young Scientist Award (2023): Received the ISEES Young Scientist Award 2023 with citation, plaque and cash prize from the International Society for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (ISEES), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in recognition of the achievements/contributions in the fields of Energy, Environment and Sustainability. https://isees.in/Young%20Scientists.htm.
• Matsumae International Foundation Fellow (2022): Received the award of ‘Matsumae International Foundation Fellow’, Japan as a visiting scientist to visit the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan for short-term research from October 2022 to January 2023.
• India’s top 10000 scientist (2022 & 2023): Recognized by AD (Alper-Doger) Scientific Index 2022 and 2023 as one of India’s top 10000 scientists, which is a ranking and analysis system based on the scientific performance and the added value of scientific outputs; web: adscientificindex.com/scientist.php?id=516687.
• Young Scientist Award (2021): Received the award of “Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Best Young Scientist Award 2020-21" by Bose Science Society, Tamil Nadu Scientific Research Organization, Tamil Nadu, India in recognition of the contribution in the field of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
• Catalysts Guest Editor Award (2021): Recognized with Catalysts 2021 Guest Editor Award for guest-editing a special issue entitled "Emerging Trends in TiO2 Photocatalysis and Applications" for the journal Catalysts (MDPI, Switzerland) https://www.mdpi.com/journal/catalysts/awards/1042.
• ChemComm Outstanding Reviewer (2020): Recognized by the Editors as an Outstanding Reviewer for ChemComm in 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 5735-5736.
• BRICS Young Scientist 2019: Selected by the Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India (one of 20 participants among 450+ applicants across India) to participate as a Young Scientist in the 4th BRICS Young Scientist Conclave, held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during 6-8th November 2019.
• Selected as one of 600 bright young scientists across the world to participate in the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, 30th June to 5th July 2019.
• DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award (2017-22)
• CSIR-Senior Research Fellow (2010-14)
• Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS)

Professional activities

• Executive Guest Editor: Journal of Photocatalysis (Bentham Science, Thematic issue on "Emerging materials and designs for photocatalysis")
• Editorial Board Member: Journal of Photocatalysis (Bentham Science)
• Guest Editor: SN Applied Sciences (Springer Nature, Topical Collection on "Frontiers in Materials from Basic Science to Real-time Applications")
• Editorial Board Member: Scientific Reports (Nature publishing)
• Editorial Board Member: SN Applied Sciences (Springer Nature publishing)
• Associate Editor: BMC Research Notes (BioMed Central, Springer Nature)
• Guest Editor: Catalysts (MDPI Publishers, Special Issue on "Emerging Trends in TiO2 Photocatalysis and Applications")
• Guest Editor: Materials Today: Proceedings (Elsevier Publishers, Conference proceedings of the International Conference on Green Methods for Separation, Purification and Nanomaterial Synthesis; JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), Bangalore, India)
• Editorial Board Member: Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (Hindawi)
• Peer Reviewer: The J. Physical Chemistry C, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (ACS); Chemical Communications, J. Materials Chemistry C, RSC Advances, Green Chemistry, Royal Society Open Science, Nanoscale, Chemical Science (RSC); Materials Research Bulletin, Materials Letters, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (Elsevier); ChemCatChem, ChemistrySelect, ChemSusChem (Wiley); Chemical Papers (Springer); Nanotechnology (IOPscience); Catalysts, Materials, Applied Sciences, Energies, Water (MDPI); Open Access House of Science and Technology.

Peer Reviewer

• ACS Applied Nano Materials (ACS); New Journal of Chemistry, Catalysis Science & Technology, CrystEngComm (RSC); EnergyChem, Chemosphere, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing (Elsevier); Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry (Wiley); SN Applied Sciences, Biotechnology Letters (Springer); Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Materials Research Express (IOPscience); Molecules, Nanomaterials, Coatings (MDPI); Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie.