Achievements

The research and teaching contributions of the School of Physical Sciences (SPS) have been widely acknowledged. Most students graduating from SPS are well placed in academics and industry. Several faculty members have also received prestigious awards and are elected fellows of renowned scientific academies. A representative list of awards/honors/achievements of the faculty and students of SPS is provided below.

Faculty Awards/Honors

Faculty Name

Awards and Honors

Sanjay Puri

S. S. Bhatnagar Prize

J. C. Bose Fellow

Visitor’s Award

INSA Vice-President

Fellow of INSA and IAS

INSA Young Scientist

Satyamurthy Award

B. M. Birla Prize

Pritam Mukhopadhyay

Swarnajayanti Fellowship

ISC Young Scientist Award

CRSI- Bronze Medal

JSPS Fellowship

Sobhan Sen

Fellow of NASI

CRSI - Bronze Medal

APA Young Scientist Award

JSPS Fellowship

Riddhi Shah

Fellow of NASI

INSA Young Scientist Award

JSPS Fellowship for Senior Scientists

Satyabrata Patnaik

DAE Young Achiever Award

Merill-Lynch Innovation Award

Scopus Young Scientist Award

Fulbright Fellowship

Commonwealth Fellowship

Brijesh Kumar

INSA Young Scientist Award

Associate IAS

Associate of the Abdus Salam ICTP

Subhasis Ghosh

MRSI Medal

Kedar Singh

BOYSCAST Fellowship

UGC-Raman Fellowship

Poonam Mehta

IUCAA Visiting Associateship

Bharat Vikas Award

Fellowships from European

Organization for Nuclear Research

And Brookhaven National Lab

Tanuja Mohanty

DST-DAAD Research Fellow

DST Fast Track Young Scientist

CSIR Research Associate Award

Debashis Ghoshal

INSA Teachers Award in Physics

Ram Prasad Prajapati

Buti Young Scientist Award, PSSI
Associate of the IUCAA
BRICS Young Scientist Award
Young Scientist Award, Vijnana Bharati
DST Fast Track Young Scientist Award

Pawan Kumar Kulriya

Member, NASI

DST Fast Track Young Scientist Award

Fulbright Fellowship

Pushpendra Kumar

SAGE, FAPESP Fellowship

FONDECYT Fellowship

SERB-NPDF D.S. Kothari Fellowship

Ram Sagar

BBSRC UK Fellowship

Brain Korea-21 Fellowship

Manish Kumar

Raman Fellowship

Pijus Kumar Sasmal

CRSI Young Scientist Award

Vijay Goel

DST Young Scientist Award

R. Rajaraman

(Former Faculty)

S. S. Bhatnagar Prize

INSA Vice-President

Fellow of INSA and IAS

Leo Szilard Lectureship Award

Co-Chairman of International Panel on Fissile Materials

Deepak Kumar

(Former Faculty)

S. S. Bhatnagar Prize

Fellow of IAS

Associate of the Abdus Salam ICTP

Humboldt Fellowship

R. Ramaswamy

(Former Faculty)

J. C. Bose Fellowship

President of IAS

INSA Vice-President

Vice-Chancellor, Univ. of Hyderabad

Fellow of INSA, IAS and TWAS

Senior Associate of Abdus Salam ICTP

Rupamanjari Ghosh

(Former Faculty)

Vice-Chancellor, Shiv Nadar University

Streeshakti Science Samman

Notable Placements of SPS Students

Name	Designation	Institute/Organization	Pass-out (Year)
Upendra Harbola	Professor	IISc Bangalore	2003
Sharvan Kumar	Assistant Professor	IISc Bangalore	2018
Subir Kumar Das	Professor	JNCASR Bangalore	2001
Subhabrata Dhar	Professor	IIT Bombay	2000
Amitabha Nandi	Associate Professor	IIT Bombay	2008
Pramod Kumar	Associate Professor	IIT Bombay	2011
Joyee Ghosh	Associate Professor	IIT Delhi	2009
Pragya Shukla	Professor	IIT Kharagpur	1992
Awaneesh K. Singh	Professor	IIT BHU	2010
Panch Ram	Assistant Professor	IIT BHU	2019
Murari Singh	Assistant Professor	IIT Tirupati	2015
Vishwa Pal	Assistant Professor	IIT Ropar	2014
Prabhat K. Jaiswal	Associate Professor	IIT Jodhpur	2014
Saroj Nayak	Professor	IIT Bhubaneswar	1995
C. S. Yadav	Professor	IIT Mandi	2009
Sunil Pratap Singh	Associate Professor	IISER Bhopal	2008
Sachin Dev Verma	Assistant Professor	IISER Bhopal	2013
Prasenjit Das	Assistant Professor	IISER Mohali	2018
Nibedita Pal	Assistant Professor	IISER Tirupati	2013
Ravi Kumar Pujala	Associate Professor	IISER Tirupati	2014
Anil K. Singh	Professor	NIT Rourkela	2010
Shagolsem Lenin Singh	Associate Professor	NIT Manipur	2007
Imtiaz Noor Bhatti	Assistant Professor	NIT Kurukshetra	2019
Awadhesh Prasad	Professor	DU	1998
Ajit K. Mahapatro	Professor	DU	2003
Om Prakash	Assistant Professor	DU	2010
Utkarsh	Assistant Professor	DU	2010
Jyoti Shukla	Assistant Professor (INSPIRE Faculty)	DU	2019
Sanjay Siwach	Professor	BHU	1997
Satyendra Prakash Pal	Assistant Professor	BHU	2014
Avinash Chand Yadav	Assistant Professor	BHU	2014
Sangeeta Ujjwal	Assistant Professor	BHU	2016
Syed Rashid Ahmad	Professor	Jamia Milia Islamia	2007
Haider Hasan Jafri	Assistant Professor	Aligarh Muslim University	2013
Sarita Yadav	Assistant Professor	Allahabad University	2013
Neeta Bidhoodi	Assistant Professor	Allahabad University	2014
Manish Shrimali	Professor	Central University of Rajasthan	2005
Anjana Bagga	Associate Professor	Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University	2004
Varsha Rani	Assistant Professor	Doon University, Dehradun	2017
Deepak Asthana	Assistant Professor	Ashoka University	2014
T. Umeshkanta Singh	Associate Professor	Bennett University	2010
Nirmal Punetha	Assistant Professor	Amity University, Manesar	2013
Manoranjan Kumar	Professor	SN Bose, Kolkata	2003
Sudha Srivastava	Professor	JIIT, Noida	2001
Bhaskar Sen Gupta	Associate Professor	VIT, Tamil Nadu	2008
Niladri Sarkar	Professor	BITS Pilani	2005
Madhu Priya	Associate Professor	BITS Mesra Ranchi	2011
Alok Kumar	Assistant Professor	Sikkim Central University	2019
Nita Parekh	Professor	IIIT Hyderabad	1994
Awadhesh K. Dubey	Professor	Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya Bilaspur	2012
Surendra S. Negi	Professor	University of Houston Galveston, USA	2001
Ndege S. Clovis	Associate Professor	University of Kinshasa Democratic Republic of Congo	2022
Kaustubh Manchanda	Assistant Professor	Abu Dhabi University	2013
Rajeev Ahluwalia	Professor	ASTAR, SINGAPORE	1997
Shrish Tiwari	Senior Principal Scientist	CCMB Hyderabad	1996
Pawan Kumar	Assistant Professor	Swami Shraddhanand College, DU	2021
D. Srikala	Associate Professor	Hansraj College, DU	2011
Rohtash Kumar	Assistant Professor	Dayal Singh College, DU	2020
Shivani Chaudhury	Assistant Professor	Hansraj College, DU	2022
Ganesh Gurjar	Assistant Professor	Ramjas College, DU	2022
Rachna Chaurasia	Assistant Professor	Ramjas College, DU	2021
Anil Awasia	Assistant Professor	Shivaji College, DU	2025
Amit K. Morewal	Assistant Professor	Shaheed Rajguru College, DU	2021
Arpit Gaur	Assistant Professor	Motilal College, DU	2024
Lachit Bora	Assistant Professor	Kamrup College, Assam	2020
Rahul Ranjan	Assistant Professor	Harish Chandra P G College Varanasi	2018
Jogesh Rout	Assistant Professor	Shree Ram College, Rampur	2020
Lalruatfela Renthlei	Assistant Professor	Lunglei Govt. College, Mizoram	2009
Mohd. Sirtaz	Assistant Professor	DAV College, Azamgarh	2018
Pradip Kumar	Principal Scientist	CSIR-AMPRI, Bhopal	2012
Shiv J. Singh	Associate Professor	Institute of High-Pressure Physics Warsaw, Poland	2012
Soumya Aggarwal	Assistant Professor	IILM University	2023
Abhishek Anand	Assistant Professor	JLNGC, Haripur, Manali	2017
Lav Kumar Singh	Assistant Professor	MITS, Gwalior	2022
Kalyanashis Mandal	Assistant Professor	Brainware University, West Bengal	2018
Arpita Aparajita A. N.	Scientific Officer	IGCAR, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu	2014
Nikhil Kumar	Assistant Professor	DDU Gorakhpur University	2008
S. D. Kaushik	Scientist-G	UGC-DAE CSR, Mumbai	2009
Prakriti Neha	Assistant Professor	MATS University, Chhattishgarh	2019
Pallavi Priyadarshini	Scientific Officer-E	BARC, Mumbai	2015
Sahil Yadav	Scientific Officer	BARC, Mumbai	2024
Abdullah Ahmad	Medical Physicist Trainee	BARC, Mumbai	2022
Swati Mehta	Scientist	ISRO	2019
Pushpendra Yadav	Scientist	DRDO, Hyderabad	2023
Anudeep Singh	Scientific Officer	RRCAT, Indore	2023
Henna Popli	TD Yield & Process Engineer	Intel Corporation, US	2014
Manoj Prajapati	Assistant Professor	CHARUSAT, Gujarat	2021
Amit Sharma	Assistant Professor (UGC-FRP)	MCARS, Jamia Millia Islamia	2005
Deepak Kumar Sahu	Assistant Professor	LNMU, Darbhanga, Bihar	2018
Somenath Jalal	Assistant Professor	Netaji Mahavidyalaya, Hooghly

Achievements

Faculty Awards/Honors

Faculty Name

Awards and Honors

Notable Placements of SPS Students

Name

Designation

Institute/Organization

Pass-out (Year)