- Hydro-Quebec Excellence Fellowship, 2007, Canada
- Korean Research Foundation Fellowship, South Korea, 2007
- Ministry of Science and Technology Research Fellowship, South Korea, 2004
- Brain Korea 21 Fellowship, South Korea
- Max-Planck-Society Fellowship, Germany 2001
- Department of Science and Technology Fellowship, India, 1999
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Fellowship (with NET), Government of India, 1999.
- Award for best outgoing student in B.Sc. Chemistry. 1996.
- Invited to Marks Who’s Who in the World for distinguished scholars, 2007
- Invited to 2015-16 Times Higher Education World University Ranking, 2015
- ScienceDirect Ranks 3rd most downloaded articles in Chemical Physics Letters, July 2005
- Top 1 % research chemist based Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering Studies, India, 1999 (score of 98.8 percentile).
