AWARD & RECOGNITIONS:

1.      International Travel Grant from DST-SERB, Government of India

2.      Award by IICHE on recognition of achievement in enrolment of members during 2014.

3.      Best Poster Presentation on “Kinetics, Isotherm and Mechanism study of Treatment of Cr(VI) contaminated waste water by using Sorghastrum Nutans(L)Nash-Natural grass” at The 11^th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, September 4-9, 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal.

4.      Best Paper award for paper title “Bioleaching of Nickel from spent Fluid catalytic cracking catalyst by Aspergillus niger” presented at SCHEMCON, Pune, 12^th -13^th September 2015.

5.      Best oral presentation under the category of adsorption for paper title “Process technology for removal of Chromium by using sludge from pig iron industry”, CHEMCON-2016, 28^th -30^th December, 2016, Chennai, India.

6.      My students got IIChE Awards for the Year 2015 - Late Lakshmi Nandakumar Award of the Institute for best presentation in SCHEMCON 2015 by a Lady Student.

7.      IIChE Awards for the Year 2016: VICAL Awards – 1^st Prize, IIChE for the best Technical Paper presentation in SCHEMCON 2015.

 MEMBER OF PROFESSIONAL BODY:

1.      Life Member, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IICHE), ID No: LM – 52380

2.      Honorary Regional Secretary, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IICHE) Goa regional Chapter.

3.      Life Member, The Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), Membership No: 55093

4.      Senior Member, Universal Association of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineers (UACSE), ID No: SNM1010002465.

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER

1.       International Journal of Biotechnology, Chemical & Environmental Engineering (IJBCEE).

MEMBER OF ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR CONFERENCES/ WORKSHOP/ SHORT TERM COURSES

1. Member of Scientific Advisory Board 13^th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems – SDEWES- 2018, 30^th September - 4^th October, 2018, at Palermo, Italy.
2. Local organizing Committee Member of DAE – BRNS Biennial Symposium on Emerging Trends in Separation Science and Technology (SESTEC – 2018), May 23-26, 2018.
3. Joint Coordinator for the two days’ workshop on “Process Modeling and Simulation” Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani- KK Birla Goa Campus 21^st -22^nd December 2017. 
4. Member of Scientific Advisory Board 12^th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems – SDEWES- 2017, 4^th - 8^th October, 2017, at Dubrovnik Croatia.
5. Joint coordinator for the two day’s workshop on “Environmental Management System” Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, 20^th -21^st October, 2016.
   
6. Member of Technical Committee for 3 days symposium on “Aluminium Industry the Evolving Asia Pacific Story” by IBAAS, 26^th -28^th September, 2016, Goa.
7. Scientific Committee member of G16-Asian: 5th International conference on research frontiers in Chalcogen cycle science & technology, Goa, 19^th -21^st December, 2016.