Awards /Fellowships 

 

·        INS Gold Medal 2007 (Indian Nuclear Society)

·        Science & Technology Excellence Award 2006 (DAE)

·        DAE Group award for post irradiation examination(PIE) of fuel and structural materials of the FBTR after 100 & 155 GWd/t burn up (2008- Dr.T.Saravanan, SMARTS)

·        DAE Group award for Hydrogen sensor development (2008-Shri.Bagavathiappan, SMARTS)

·        IIM Second Prize for the best Journal paper published in 2007 [Physica E (2007) 20-25].

·        First Prize for best ORAL presentation   Second International Conference on Frontiers in Nanoscience and Technology Cochin Nano2009 held at CUSAT during Jan 3-6, 2009. 

·        First Prize for best POSTER Second International Conference on Frontiers in    Nanoscience and Technology Cochin Nano2009 held at CUSAT during Jan 3-6, 2009.

·        CSIR Senior Research Fellowship

·        GATE Junior Research Fellowship

·        Mar Philexinos Gold Medal for the Best M.Sc. Student

·        Travel grant from International Program in the Physical sciences, Sweden to attend International workshop on  lasers in Shanghai, China.

·        Post Doctoral Fellowship (University of Hull, United Kingdom)

·        Post Doctoral Research Fellowship from French Government (CIES, France)

·        Japanese Government Monbusho Research Fellowship (University of Tokyo, Japan)

·        Swiss Government Research fellowship (Basel University, Switzerland)

·        Post Doctoral Fellowship (University of Uppsala, Sweden)

·        Post Doctoral Fellowship (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)

 

•         Our Work on ferrofluid based sensors has been included in a movie called “Black Magic” telecasted  in UGC Channel of DD

•         External reviewer for promotion (Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnogy, TVM)

•         Peer Review member, DRDO, NPOL, Kochi

•         Member, Nanotechnology ISO standards, Govt of India

 

 

·        Won a Perpective Research Fund  project on “Development of advanced nanofluid” (530 lakhs for 2009-2013)

 

 Reviewer    International & National  Journals 

 

·               Reviewer of the projects of  CSIR, DST, BRNS, Netherland Govt.

·               Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (Taylor & Francis)

·               International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Elsevier, Netherland)

·               Applied Physics Letters (AIP, USA)

·               J.Applied Physics (AIP, USA)

·               Chemical Physics Letters (AIP, USA)

·               J.Phys.Chem B & C (ACS, USA)

·               Crystal Growth & Design (ACS, USA)

·               Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (ACS, USA)

·               Biomacromolecules (ACS, USA)

·               Physica Scripta (IOP, UK)

·               Nanotechnology (IOP, UK)

·               Measurement Science & Technology (IOP, UK)

·               Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (IOP, UK)

·               Journal of Physics :Cond.Matter  (IOP, UK)

·               European Physical Journal B, D & E (IOP, UK)

·               Physics Letters A  (Elsevier, Netherland)

·               Materials Science and Engineering B (Elsevier, Netherland)

·               Journal of Experimental Nanoscience (Taylor & Francis)

·               Materials Research Bulletin  (Elsevier, Netherland)

·               Journal of Molecular Liquids (Elsevier, Netherland)

·               New Journal of Physics

·               Materials Chemistry and Physics (Elsevier, Netherland)

·               Solid State Sciences (Elsevier, Netherland)

·               European Polymer Journal (Elsevier, Netherland)

·               International Journal of Thermal Sciences (Elsevier, Netherland)

·               Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering  (Open journal, USA)

·               Current Science (IAS, India)

• Life member, MRSI  (LMB 1059)
• Life member, Indian Laser Association (ILA), 
• Life member, Indian Society for Nondestructive Testing (ISNT)
• Life member, Indian Physics Association (IPA),
• Life member, Indian Society for Magnetic Fluid(ISMF), 
• Life member, Indian Nuclear (INS) 

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1. Member Medical Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Sectional Committee, MHD 20- BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS (2009 onwards  )  

 

2. Member National technical committee  - International conference on nanoscience and Technology ICONN-2010 held at SRM university during Feb 24-26, 2010.

 

3. Advisory committee Member-     International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICANN) during December 09-11, 2009, organized by the  Centre for Nanotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.

 

4. Advisory committee Member-   Indo-US workshop on "Advanced magnetic materials and their applications"   held at IIT Bombay during March 2-4, 2009.

  

5. Member of the National Scientific and Technical Committee- national seminar on “Nanotechnology and Its Applications”   held at Synergy Institute of Engineering and Technology, Dhenkanal, ( very close to Cuttack,  Orissa ) on 17th and 18th July 2009

 

6. Advisory committee Member-   Advance Nano materials (ANM-2008) at Aveiro, Portugal  during June 23-25, 2008

 

7. Advisory committee Member-  International conference on nanoscience and technology (ICONSAT-08)  held at Chennai trade centre during Feb27-29, 2008.

 

8. Advisory committee Member-  International conference on nanoscience and  technology, Cochin during January 4-7, 2009.

 

9. Advisory committee Member-  Nanoscience & Technology in Diagnostic application and Drug Delivery" held during 6 & 7 August, 2008, VHNSN College, Virudhunagar  

 

10. Advisory committee Member-   Two-days National Conference on "Nanomaterials" on 17th to 18th October 2008, Karunya University, Coimbatore  

 

11. Convenor-  International workshop on   Nanoscience & Technology for Health Care: Medical Diagnosis, Imaging and Drug Delivery-   Organized at the ICSER Auditorium, IIT-Madras, Chennai on  26  February 2008 as part of ICONSAT-08. Against the anticipated strength of 75, more than 160 participants have registered the workshop and was a huge success.