Awards/Fellowships:
1. National Scholarship Award for outstanding performance in Matric Examination from the Government of Punjab in 2002.
2. Awarded a "Certificate of Merit" for being placed in statewise top 1% in the National Graduate Physics Examination (NGPE) 2006-2007 conducted by Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT).
3. Qualified the National Eligibility Test (NET) with Junior/Senior Research Fellowship, CSIR-UGC, India in Physical Sciences (December 2008).
4. Qualified the Graduate Aptitude Test (GATE), Physics, 2009, All India Rank: 200; Percentile: 96%.
5. "Training and Research in Italian Laboratories (TRIL)" Fellowship funded by International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy during 2016-2017.
6. Institute Fellowship, Elettra Sincrotrone Light Source, Trieste, Italy (2017- 2020).
Significant Travel Grants:
1. Travel Grant to participate and give a talk in "International conference on Nanophotonics and Micro/Nano Optics" at Munich, Germany; awarded by Elettra Sinctrotrone, Trieste, Italy (2019).
2. Financial support by European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France for performing Beamtime Experiments on “Structural and functional modulations induced by direct-writing X-ray nanolithography in technologically relevant oxides” at ESRF (2015).
3. International Travel Support Awarded by Science and Engineering Board, DST, India for giving Oral Presentation at "ICMAT 2013: International conference on materials for advanced technologies" in Suntec, Singapore (2013).
Special Hightlights:
1. Our Research on “Terahertz tuning of Dirac plasmons in Bi2Se3 Topological Insulator” mentioned in "Elettra Highlights" of Elettra Sincrotrone Light Trieste, Italy (2020, Section: Structure and Dynamics, Page: 84-85).
2. Our Research on “THz-pump/THz-probe time-resolved spectroscopy at TeraFERMI” mentioned in "Elettra Highlights" of Elettra Sincrotrone Light Trieste, Italy (2018, Section: Photon Sources and Instrumentation, pages: 132-133).
3. Our Research on “A superconducting device drawn by focused X-rays without etching the crystal”, mentioned in "ESRF Highlights" at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France (2016, Section: X-ray Nanoprobe, Page: 35-36).
