Honors and Awards (to PI and Students)

Prof. Vivek Polshettiwar (PI)
  • 2024- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award from the President of India (Highest Indian Science Award)
  • 2024- Elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (FASc)
  • 2024- BPCL Innovation Award
  • 2024- President of India, Visitor’s Nominee for the Selection of Professors at various IITs
  • 2023- Falling Walls 2023: Winner in Physical Sciences
  • 2022- CHEMRAWN VII Prize by The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
  • 2022- National Prize for Research on Environmental Chemistry, including CO2 reduction and Green Hydrogen by CNR Rao Foundation, JNCASR, Bangalore.
  • 2022- Editorial Advisory Board, Catalysis Today
  • 2021- Advisory Board Member, Wiley Chemistry Select
  • 2021- Advisory Board Member, RSC Materials Horizons
  • 2021- Silver Medal by Society for Materials Chemistry (SMC), BARC, Mumbai.
  • 2021- Selected as a Fellow under "The (Late) Shri. G. D. Gokhale Lectureship Endowment” by ICT, Mumbai
  • 2021- Selected for Oversea Famous Professor Program, Guangdong Univ. of Petrochemical Technology, China.
  • 2020- Elected as a Fellow National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)
  • 2020-  Young Career Award in Nano Science & Technology by Department of Science & Technology, Gov. India
  • 2020-  Prof. S. S. Sandhu Award, by Indian Chemical Society
  • 2020- Early Carrier Advisory Board Member, ACS Materials Letters
  • 2020- Member of International Advisory Board, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society
  • 2019-  Fellow, Maharashtra Academy of Sciences
  • 2019-  Fellow, Chemical Society of India
  • 2019-  Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal
  • 2018-20- Member of Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS)
  • 2017- Prof. B. D. Tilak Distinguished Lecture
  • 2017- Prof. A. V. Karnik Endowment Lecture
  • 2017- Associate Fellow of Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM)
  • 2017- Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal
  • 2017- Selected as a fully funded participant in Royal Society’s Commonwealth Science Conference, Singapore.
  • 2016- Emerging Investigator by RSC J. Mat. Chem. A
  • 2015- Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), United Kingdom
  • 2015- Selected as one of the 175 Faces of Chemistry Worldwide by Royal Society of Chemistry
  • 2015- Award Membership by the American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2014- Young Associate of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences (MASc)
  • 2013-2018-  Member of Global Young Academy (GYA)
  • 2013- “Asian Rising Stars” lectureship at 15th Asian Chemical Congress, Singapore, by Nobel Laureate Negish
  • 2012- Top 25 Cited Authors in Tetrahedron in 2010-2011
  • 2012- Young Scientist Award (at DSL 2012, sponsored by Springer Verlag GmbH, Germany)
  • 2009- Scientific and Technology Achievement Award (Special Mention) (by US-EPA)
  • 2007-2009- ORISE Research Fellowship (for the development of independent scientist by ORISE & USEPA)
  • 2005-2006- Postdoc Research Fellowship (at ENSCM by Science & Education Ministry, France)
  • 2002-2005- DRDO Research Fellowship (during PhD by Government of India)
  • 1999-2001- Eklavya Scholarship (for meritorious performance during BSc by Gov. of Maharashtra) 

Dr. Rustam Singh (PhD student, 2018)
 
Dr. Mahak Dhiman (PhD student, 2019)
  • Best Oral Award in 7th Asia-Pacific Congress on Catalysis (APCAT-7)-2017, Hotel The Lalit, Mumbai, India.
 
Dr. Ayan Maity (PhD student,  2021)
  • Best Poster Award in 6th DAE-BRNS Interdisciplinary Symposium on Materials Chemistry 2016 in BARC, Mumbai, India.
  • Best Poster Award in DCS Annual Talk 2016 in TIFR, Mumbai, India.
  • Best Poster Award in MRSI Annual Symposium held at IIT, Mumbai during 13-15th Feb. 2017.
  • Best Poster Award in SASChem 2017 satellite meeting in IISER Kolkata.
  • Best Oral Presentation Award in “NANOCON 018” organized by Bharati Vidyapeeth University, bi-annually organizes International Conference on Nanotechnology, Pune, India from 25-26th October 2018.
  • Best Poster Award in “joint event of the Academy and ACS Publications” on November 1st, 2018, at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India.
  • Best Oral Award in “National Conference on Advanced Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications”, (AMEEA-2018), at NIT, Rourkela, India.
  • Received Second Best Poster Award in “New Generation Ideation (NGI) Contest at Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Centre (HPGRDC), Bengaluru, India.
  • IUMRS-ICA 2019 and Thermo Fisher Funding Support Award for attending IUMRS-ICA 2019 meeting in Perth, Australia.
  • Selected for the “Future Research Talent (FRT) travel award 2020” On behalf of the Dean of the College of Science and the Dean of the College of Health and Medicine at the Australian National University.
  • Best Oral Presentation Award in “Materials for Energy Harvesting and Catalysis (MEHC 2020)” (virtual meeting).
  • Received Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Best PhD Thesis award in Chemistry. (2021).
 
Dr. Rajesh Belgamwar (PhD student, 2023)
  • Best Oral Presentation Award in International Conference on Novel Materials and Technologies for Energy and Environment Applications (NMTE2A-2022), BITS Pilani- Hyderabad, India.
  • Third Prize in New Generation Ideation Contest (NGIC) – 2022, Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Centre, Bengaluru, India.
 
Mr. Rishi Verma (PhD student, 2025)
  • Best Oral Presentation Award in International Conference of International Academy of Physical Sciences (CONIAPS) on Sustainable Chemistry for Future Technologies (online) – 2021, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India.
  • Best Poster Presentation Award in TIFR Annual Chemistry Conference (TACC-2021), at TIFR, Mumbai, India.
  • First Prize in New Generation Ideation Contest (NGIC)-2021, HP Green R&D Centre, Bengaluru, India.
  • Best Poster Award in Energy and Materials theme in 3rd Commonwealth Chemistry Posters 2022 (online).
  • Best Oral Presentation Award in Chemical Catalysis Conference & Workshop on Electrochemical Methods and Analysis (Chemcatcon2.0)-2022, IIT Gandhinagar, Gujrat, India.
  • Best Poster Presentation Award at Indo-French Seminar on Catalysis for Sustainability (IFSC)-2023 at IISER Thiruvananthapuram.
  • Best Oral Presentation Award in International Conference, Exhibition on Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2023 (SusChemE 2023), Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai, India.
  • Best Oral Presentation Award in Conference on Catalysis for Energy, Environment & Sustainability (CEES-2024), CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, India.
  • Best Oral Presentation Award in CRSI-ACS Early Career Researchers’ Symposium 2024, KIIT, Bhubaneswar, India.
 
Mr. Saideep Singh (PhD student, 2025)
  • Best Poster Presentation Award, TACC conference-2024, TIFR Mumbai.
  • Best Poster Presentation Award, 10th IUPAC International Conference on Green Chemistry-2024 at Beijing, China.
  • Best Poster Presentation Award, BRICS Young Scientist Conclave-2024 at Guangzhou, China (Online).
  • Best Poster Presentation Award, Catalysis for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES-2023) and CO2 -India Network 2nd Annual Meet at IIT Mandi, India.
  • Best Poster Presentation Award, International Conference on Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (SusChemE 2023), ICT, Mumbai, India.
 
Ms. Gunjan Sharma (PhD student)
  • Best Oral Presentation Award in SusChemE 2023, International Conference, Exhibition on Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 2023 Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India.
  • Best Poster Award in 5th Commonwealth Chemistry Posters Competition held online in September, 2024.
  • First Prize in Industrial Green Chemistry Award 2023-Student Category, Green Chemistry Foundation, Mumbai, India.
  • Winner of 2024 Nano Letters Seed Grant Award (South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa), American Chemical Society.
  • First Prize in Asian Paints Alchemy Competition 2025, Asian Paints, Mumbai, India.
 
Ms. Charvi Singhvi (PhD student)
  • Best Oral Presentation Award in Sustaniable Chemistry III- 2025, at IIT Indore, India.  
  • First Prize in Asian Paints Alchemy Competition 2025, Asian Paints, Mumbai, India.
  • Selected for 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry in 2025.