EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

ü  Served as a Guest Editor for the Special Issue ‘Catalyzed Synthesis of Chiral Amines’ of Catalysts journal (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/catalysts/special_issues/chiral_amines)

ü  Serving as a reviewer of ACS Catalysis, Green Chemistry, ChemCatChem, Bioresource Technology, and several other international peer reviewed journals.

 

EXTRAMURAL FUNDING

ü  Served as a Principal Investigator (as M. K. Bhan Young Researcher Fellow) for the project ‘Valorization of Agricultural Fatty Acid Byproducts for the Biosynthesis of Industrially Important Bioplastic Monomers Using Multi-enzymatic Cascades’ funded by DBT, Government of India (Project cost- 89 Lakh) Oct. 2021- Sept. 2023.

ü  Served as a Principal Investigator for the project ‘Development of Industrial Production Technology for Diabetic Drug Sitagliptin Using Enzyme Catalysts Technology’ funded by Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of South Korea (MOTIE, Korea) (Grant No. 10076343) (Project cost- ~USD 50,000)

 

ü  Awarded with ‘International Young Researcher Award 2020-21’, International Institute of Organized Research (I2OR)

ü  Awarded with M. K. Bhan Young Researcher Fellowship, DBT, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India (2021)

ü  Awarded with Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship, University Grant Commission, Government of India (Thankfully declined).

ü  Awarded with ‘KU-Brain pool Fellowship’, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea (March 2018- Feb 2020)

ü  Awarded with Senior Research Fellowship from DBT, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India (2014-2017)

ü  Awarded with Junior Research Fellowship from DBT, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India (2012-2014)

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 

ü  Lifetime member of Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI) (Membership No: LM 2635)

ü  Member of American Chemical Society (ACS Member Number – 32946757)

ü  Lifetime member of International Society for Research and Development (Membership ID: SR4150900539

ü  Lifetime member of Asian Federation of Biotechnology (Membership ID: KR01137)

 

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

 

 

Exam.

Conducting Agency

Year

 

Subject

 

Remark

CSIR-UGC- NET

CSIR

2012

Life Sciences

AIR 42

DBT-JRF-Program

DBT

2012

Biotechnology and Applied biology

AIR 52

GATE-2012

IIT, Delhi

2012

Biotechnology

AIR 66

GATE-2011

IIT, Madras

2011

Biotechnology

AIR 1430

GPAT-2010

AICTE

2010

Pharmaceutical Sciences

AIR 519

GATE-2009

IIT, Roorkee

2009

Pharmaceutical Sciences

AIR 3215