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
For group members
■ 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