Awards and Honours :

  • Visiting Faculty, Yeungnam University, South Korea 2009, 2010
  • Best Poster Award in the conference FDAMR (Future Directions in Advanced Materials Research) 2008.

Invited Talks:
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  • "Self-Propulsion of Motors & Droplet Dynamics on Porous-Granular Beds", at IIT Kanpur, 2012.
  • "Self-Propulsion of Motors Decorated with Catalytic Metal Nanoparticles", 2nd Indo-German Workshop on Advances in Reaction and Separation Processes, at Magdeburg, Germany, 2012.
  • "ElectroMagnetoHydrodynamic and ElectroOsmotic Instabilities of thin liquid films" Advanced Instability Methods, Mumbai, India, 2012.
  • "Self-propulsion of catalytic motors decorated with nanoparticles: Emulating the voyage of the microorganisms" at Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India, 2012.
  • "Dynamics of Thin Films: A Journey from Random to Ordered Microstructures", QIP short-term course, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, India, 2011.
  • "Dynamics of Thin Films: A Journey from Random to Ordered Microstructures" - CMERI, Durgapur, India, 2010.
  • "Dynamics of Thin Films: A Journey from Random to Ordered Microstructures" - WCU Nano Center, Yeungnam University, South Korea, 2010.
  • "A Journey from Random to Ordered Microstructures" - Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 2010.
  • "Instability and Dynamics of Thin Polymer Bilayers", MPI, Dresden, Germany 2008.