Major Awards and Accolades

Major Awards and Accolades

Recognised for excellence in teaching by Program in General Biology (1992) and Graduate and Professional Students Association (1993) at WSU, Pullman.

Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (1997-2000).

Invited to contribute to the Nature Publishing Group’s Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (1999).

Invited to deliver the first C. N. R. Rao Award Oration of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore (2000).

Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute of Advanced Studies, Berlin) March - July, 2001.

Associate Member, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore (2006-present).

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Biological Sciences (2009).

Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali (2009-present).

Young Leader in Science & Technology (Laksmipat Singhania National Leadership Awards) for 2010.

Prof. Har Swarup Memorial Lecture award of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (2017).

Fellow and Founding Member of the Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists (2018).