Distinctions

Selected for oral presentation at the Gordon Research Seminar on Soft Condensed Matter Physics, 2025
 

Best Paper Award - Professor Obaid Siddiqi Best Paper Award 2024 from Central Instrumentation and Flow Facility, NCBS
 

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

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

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

Awards

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

Best Poster in Biophysics and Biochemistry, at the NCBS Annual Talks 2025

Best Poster in Biophysics and Biochemistry, at the NCBS Annual Talks 2024
Poster award at CompFlu 2023

FEBS-IUBMB Transcontinental Travel Award for the FEBS Mechanics in Biology Course, held at the University of Glasgow, from June 4th to 9th, 2023

Travel grant to attend the Active Matter at Surfaces and in Complex Environments Workshop, held at MPI-PKS Dresden, from June 19th to 24th, 2023

Infosys Travel Award, 2023

First prize for poster presentation at the EMBO Physics of Cells and Tissues Symposium, held at IISc. from 15-16th Feb 2023

Best Poster Award at the NCBS Annual Talks 2023

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

Silver Medal at the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) Competition, 2019
 

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

CBSE National Science Exhibition 2014: Winner, Environmental Sciences

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

Leadership and Community Engagement

Appointed as the graduate student representative on the Internal Complaints Committee at NCBS (2025 - present).

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Served as member of the Early Career Researchers Council at NCBS (2021-22).

Elected as President of the Students’ Senate, IISER Bhopal (2019-20).

Served as a member of the Student Senate, IISER Bhopal for three years (2017-20).

Representative for the Natural Sciences stream (2018-19), Institute Career Development and Placement Council at IISER Bhopal.

Convener (2020) and member (2018-2019) of the Election Committee, IISER Bhopal - responsible for conducting the annual Student Senate elections.

Served as the Secretary of the Career Development Council, IISER Bhopal (2017-2019). 

Worked as a Communications Associate in the Institute Placement Cell, IISER Bhopal (2017-2019). 

Served as the coordinator for the Quiz Club (2018-2020) and the Oratory Club (2017-2019), IISER Bhopal.

Functioned as Head of Operations for the Annual IISER Bhopal Model United Nations Conference 2018.

Co-organizer and host for IISER Bhopal’s inaugural TEDx event on 15th Oct 2017.

Member of the Editorial Board (2017-19) for IISER Bhopal's Institute magazine.