Distinctions

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Future Investigator Award - travel grant sponsored by the Division of Soft Matter and American Physical Society, for the Global Physics Summit 2026 at Denver, USA

Graduate Research Excellence Award - travel grant sponsored by the Forum on Graduate Student Affairs, American Physical Society, for the Global Physics Summit 2026 at Denver, USA

Foreign Travel Grant, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India, 2026

International Travel Support Grant, Anusandhan National Research Foundation, India, 2026

Sun Pharma Science Scholar Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences, 2025

Professor Obaid Siddiqi Best Paper Award, Central Instrumentation and Flow Facility, NCBS, 2025

EMBO Frontiers in Cytoskeleton Research Workshop Travel Grant, 2025

Best Poster in Biophysics and Biochemistry, at the Conversations on Biology Annual Talks, 2025

APS DBIO Travel Award - sponsored by the Division of Biological Physics and American Physical Society, for the March Meeting 2025 at Anaheim, USA

Infosys Travel Award, 2024

Distinguished Student Award - sponsored by the Forum on International Physics and American Physical Society, for the March Meeting 2024 at Minneapolis, USA

First-author paper selected as Editors’ Highlight in Nature Communications - top 50 papers in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2024

Best Poster in Biophysics and Biochemistry, at the Interconnected Life Annual Talks, 2024

First-author paper selected as Featured Article in Biophysics Reviews, 2024

First prize for poster presentation at the EMBO Physics of Cells and Tissues Symposium, IISc., 2023

FEBS-IUBMB Transcontinental Travel Award, FEBS Mechanics in Biology Course, U. Glasgow, 2023

Best poster award in Biological Soft Matter at CompFlu, IIT Madras, 2023

Travel grant to attend the Active Matter at Surfaces and in Complex Environments Workshop, MPI-PKS Dresden, 2023

Best Poster Award at the Patterns in Biology Annual Talks, NCBS, 2023

Infosys Travel Award (declined), 2022

Silver Medal at the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) Competition, 2019
Bronze Medal as Team Mentor at iGEM 2021

Secured all-India Rank 33 in the CSIR UGC NET Examination 2020, out of 83,055 candidates in the Life Sciences category (top 0.1 percentile). Qualified for the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF)

Elected President of the Students’ Senate, IISER Bhopal, 2019-2021

KVPY Fellow (2016-2021): Competitive national-level fellowship awarded to undergraduate students pursuing basic sciences by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

CBSE National Science Exhibition 2014: Winner, Environmental Sciences

IRIS (Initiative for Research and Innovation in Science) National Fair 2014:

• Outstanding Award in Environmental and Earth Sciences 

• Gujarat Council of Science and Technology Merit Award

INSPIRE Award from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, 2013