Honors, Awards and Education

Honors and Awards

• Young Scientist Research Award by Board of Research Nuclear Sciences and Department of Atomic Energy, India (2017-2019)

• Young Scientist Scheme award by Department of Science and Technology, India (2015-2018)

• INSPIRE Faculty Award by Indian National Science Academy and Department of Science and Technology, India (2015-2020)

• FOM Fellowship to pursue Ph.D program by Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), The Netherlands (2009-2004)

• DST Fellowship for Masters program by Department of Science and Technology, India (2005)

• MHRD-GATE-Fellowship (2004)

Education

PhD from University of Twente, The Netherlands (2013)

Thesis: Boiling turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Supervisors: Prof. Detlef Lohse (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Prof. Andrea Prosperetti (Johns Hopkins University, The USA)

MS from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research-Bangalore, India (2007)

Thesis: Studies on buoyancy induced open shear flows

Supervisors: Prof. Meheboob Alam (JNCASR-Bangalore)

B.Tech (Mechanical) from Acharya Nagarujuna University-Guntur, India (2004)