An article with ICAER 2017 at IIT Bombay received the Best Paper Award.
Bharat Vikas Award 2017 by ISR Bhubaneswar.
An article with Solar World Congress 2015 was selected among top 15 out of 400 contributions.
An article with TSFP in Munich was selected among the top 20 out of 220 contributions.
Articles with NURETH were considered among select contributions.
The reported research work in "Gas entrainment in pool type LMFBR" was selected as one of the High Impact Breakthroughs (see www.igcar.ernet.in) in the (PFBR) design by the IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India.
ANR Post-Doc Fellowship (France).
Korea Science and Engineering Foundation Fellowship (Korea/India).
Scholarship/Fellowship during Bachelors, Masters, PhD in India and Germany.
Ranked in the "National Graduate Physics Examination (NGPE)-1997", which was conducted by the Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) among the top 1% students in India.
Review assignments
Annals of Nuclear Energy, Elsevier
Applied Energy, Elsevier
Applied Thermal Engineering, Elsevier
EuroSun, ISES
Frontiers in Energy Research, Frontiers
Heat Transfer Research, Begell House
Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow, Elsevier
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, Elsevier
Int. J. Thermal Sciences, Elsevier
J. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, Springer
J. Cleaner Production, Elsevier
J. Cryogenics, Springer
J. Optical Society of America, OSA
J. Enhanced Heat Transfer
Rev. MNRE project
Nuclear Engineer and Design, Elsevier
Physics of Fluids, AIP
PhD thesis examiner (IIT Madras, Guwahati)
Sadhna, Springer
Solar Energy, Elsevier
Solar World Congress
SolarPACES
Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, ASME
Other assignments
Chair/Co-Chair (example): NURETH Japan, SCWR Symposium Germany, Solar World Congress (2013 Mexico; 2015 S. Korea; 2017 Abu Dhabi).
Technical Program Committee (example) of Solar World Congress 2015 & 2017, Int. Conf. on Polygeneration (2015, India; & 2017, Mexico), EuroSun (2018, Germany).
State-of-the-art lecture, 33rd National Convention of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Engineers (India), 2017, Udaipur.
An Invited Speaker at Indo-Global Education Summit & Expo 2017, Indus Foundation, New Delhi.
An Invited Speaker at INDOGFOE 2017 (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, DST and IIT Kanpur), Jaipur.
An Invited Speaker/Session Coordinator at NMD-ATM 2016 (Indian Institute of Metals & IIT Kanpur), Kanpur.
A Key-note Lecture at International Conference on Polygeneration (ICP) 2015, Chennai.
An Invited Speaker at BHEL on Solar Energy during 2014 - 2016 (best session), G. Noida.
An Invited Speaker at Institute of Engineers (India), 2015, Udaipur.
An Invited Speaker at SERIIUS Symposium, IISc Bangalore, 2014, Bangalore.
