• Bhagyalakshmi & Krishna Ayengar Award, IIT-Madras, 2024.

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• Winner – Royal Society of Chemistry’s Inspirational Committee Award, 2022. 

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• Dr. G.P. Kane Distinguished Speaker Award, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2016

• Rev. Fr. Yeddanapalli Memorial Award, Loyola College, Chennai, 2016.

• Royal Society of Chemistry Service Award, 2014.

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• Sistla Kameswari Young Scientist Award (Catalysis), Catalysis Society of India, 2002.

• Mayavati Memorial Young Scientist Award (Solid State Chemistry), IASSCAS, 2001.

• JCPDS Award, Powder Diffraction File Data Set 40, 1204-06, Int. Centre for Diffraction Data, Pennsylvania, 1990.

• Elected Fellow, Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata, 2023.

• Elected Fellow, The Academy of Sciences, Chennai, 2016.

• Elected Fellow, Madras Science Foundation, Chennai, 2015.

• Elected Fellow, The Royal Society of Chemistry, London, 2002.

• Elected Fellow, Maharashtra Academy of Sciences, Pune, 2001.

• Professor T. Balakrishnan Endowment Lecture, University of Madras, Chennai, 2022.

• Member, Mission Mode Project: Catalysis for Sustainable Development, CSIR, 2017-2020.

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• Member, Higher Secondary Textbook Writing Committee (Chemistry – 2nd Year), State Council of Educational Research and Training, Chennai, 2019.

• Member, Higher Secondary Textbook Writing Committee (Chemistry – 1st Year), State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), Chennai, 2018.

• Member, Empowerment and Equity Opportunities for Excellence in Science (Chemical Sciences), DST, 2016-2019.

• Member, Programme Advisory Committee Member (Physical Chemistry), DST, 2012-2015.

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• Rev. Sr. Annamma Philip Endowment Lecture, Stella Maris College, Chennai, 2012.

• Professor S. Lakshminarasimhan Endowment Lecture, A.M. Jain College, Chennai, 2012.

• Member, German Excellence Initiative, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bonn

  (GERMANY), 2011.

• Professor N. Venkatasubramanian Endowment Lecture, Vivekananda College, Chennai, 2010.

• Member, Higher Secondary Textbook (Chemistry – 2nd Year) Writing Committee, State Council of Educational Research and Training, Chennai, 2019.

• Member, Board of Management, Vels University, Chennai, 2019 onwards.

• Member, Higher Secondary Textbook (Chemistry – 1st Year) Writing Committee, State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), Chennai, 2018.

• Group Leader, IIT-Madras Delegation to University of Cardiff, Cardiff (UK), 2018.

Group Leader, IIT-Madras-University of Manchester Delegation, Chennai, 2017.

Group Leader, IIT-Madras Delegation to University of Manchester, Manchester (UK), 2015.

• Coordinator, RSC – India Road Show, IIT-Madras, Chennai, 2014.

• Speaker, The New Indian Express ThinkEdu Conclave, Chennai, 2014.

• Group Leader, 4th Indo-Russian Delegation (Catalysis), St. Petersburg (RUSSIA), 2013.

• Group Leader, 3rd Indo-Russian Delegation (Catalysis), Chennai, 2011.

• Deputy Leader, 2nd Indo-Russian Delegation (Catalysis), Novosibrisk (RUSSIA), 2009.

• Vice-President, Catalysis Society of India, Chennai, 2018 onwards.

• Member, Indo-French Delegation (Catalysis Design by NMR), Lille (France), 2017.

• Honorary Treasurer, Royal Society of Chemistry‒South India, 2015 onwards.

• Member, UK Science & Innovation Network / RSC Delegation to Durban (South Africa), 2014.

• Member, The University of Queensland and India Delegation to Brisbane (Australia), 2014.

• Member, Dublin City University’s Research College & Advisory Panel (Ireland), 2014 onwards.

• Honorary Chairman & Treasurer, The Royal Society of Chemistry‒South India, 2011-2015.

• Member, Indo-Hungary Delegation (Catalysis), Chennai, 2010.

• Member, Indo-UK Delegation (Catalysis), Pune, 2006.

• Treasurer, Catalysis Society of India, 2003-2005.

• Secretary, Catalysis Society of India (Mumbai Chapter), 2002-2004.

• Associate Editor, Journal of Sustainable Materials Science and Engineering, World Scientific, 2024 onwards.

• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Media SA, 2019 onwards.

• Editorial Board Member, Materials Today Sustainability, Elsevier Publishers, 2018 onwards.

• Editorial Board Member, Catalysis in Green Chemistry and Engineering, Begell House Publishers, 2018 onwards.

• Editorial Board of Referees, ARKIVOC, Arkat USA Inc., 2024 onwards.

• Associate Editor, Advanced Porous Materials, American Scientific Publishers, 2013-2018.

• Bhagyalashmi & Krishna Ayengar Prize(Surya Kumar Vatti), Excellence in Research Award, IIT-Madras, Chennai,  2023.

• Best Oral Presentation Award (Vandana Verma), International Conference on Recent Trends in Material and Magnetism (ICRTMM-22), Loyola College, Chennai, 15 & 16 December 2022.

• EUROMOF2021 Poster Award (Rimita Bose) – 4th European Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks and Porous Polymers,  Krakow, Poland, 2021.

• Best Thesis Award (Rajesh Kumar Parsapur) – LANGMUIR PRIZE, Department of Chemistry, IIT-Madras, 2019.

• CSI Best Poster Award (Sanjeev Gupta) – 17th National Workshop on Catalysis for Clean Energy and Sustainable Future, Delhi, 2019.

• IMMS10 Best Paper (Poster Presentation), 10th International Mesostructured Materials Symposium, Los Angeles, USA (Surya K. Vatti), 2018.

• Hindustan Platinum Best Paper (Oral Presentation), 23th Natl. Workshop on Catal., Bengaluru (Sanjeev Gupta), 2018.

• RSC Advances Poster Presentation Prize, RSC-NIT Symposium on Heterogenous Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry, Tiruchy (Sanjeev Gupta), 2016.

• Hindustan Platinum Best Paper, 17th Natl. Workshop on Catal., Hyderabad (K. Suthagar), 2016.

• Prof. Ramamurthy Endowment Prize for Best M.Sc. Dissertation (V. Vijay Kumar), 2012.

• Hindustan Platinum Best Poster, 15th Natl. Workshop on Catalysis, Chennai (B. Kuppan) 2011.

• Hindustan Platinum Best Paper, 2nd Indo–Pacific Conf. on Catalysis, Pune (K. Vidya), 2000.

• Hindustan Platinum Best Paper, 14th Natl. Symp. on Catal., Chennai (R.J. Mahalingham), 1998.