- Appointed as Head of the partner group of Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research at IoP, Bhubaneswar in 2017
- Max-Planck society postdoctoral fellowship-2014
- Prof. Anil Kumar memorial medal for best thesis (Experimental physics) IISc, Bangalore, 2010-2011
- Best Ph.D thesis award, 55th DAE-Solid state physics symposium, India, 2010
