Awards:

Honors/ Awards:


  1. Government Open Merit Scholarship at B. Sc. degree during 1989-1991.
  2. Dr. Jagdish S. Shirke Prize by Shivaji University, Kolhapur, for having stood first in the subject of Physics (Principal) at the B. Sc. Exam. held in April 1992.
  3. Shriman Ganpati Ramseth Warange Prize by Shivaji University, Kolhapur, for having stood first at the B.Sc. Exam. held in April 1992.
  4. Government Open Merit Scholarship at M. Sc. degree during 1992-1994.
  5. Smt. Gangubai Dattatraya Kulkarni (Jambhekar), Ichakaranji Prize by Shivaji University, Kolhapur, for having stood first in Physics at the M. Sc. Exam. held in May 1994.
  6. Qualified STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST (SET), MAHARASHTRA (Eligibility Test for Lecturership) in Feb., 2002 in the subject of Physical Sciences conducted by University of Pune as the State Agency accredited by UGC.
  7. Secretary of the Staff, Department of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur.
  8. International recognition: One diffraction patterns included as new materials by ICDD in their powder diffraction files.
  9. Elected as a Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences for the significant contribution in the field of Physical Sciences in the year 2015.
  10. Honoured as Brand Kolhapur
  11. Placed in world’s top 2% scientist

Fellowships:


  1. Project Fellow (UGC) 17/10/1994 to 02/06/1996
  2. JRF (DST Project) 03/06/1996 to 31/05/1998
  3. SRF (DST Project) 01/06/1998 to 31/05/1999

Membership


  1. Life member, Materials Research Society of India (MRSI)
  2. Life member, Semiconductor Society of India (SSI)
  3. Life member, Indian Physics Association (IPA)
  4. Life member, Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT)
  5. Life member: Marathi Vidnyan Parishad Kolhapur region
  6. Member of Shivaji University Students Council - 1992
  7. Life member, The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA):Membership No. L27745
  8. Member of Board of Studies, Shivaji University, Kolhapur

Patents Filed (Indian):

Sr. No Title of Patent Patent number Date
1 Photoelectrocatalytic behavior of Fe2O3, AlFe2O3 and AlFe2O3/TiO2 nanoflakes 2181/MUM/2012 30-07-2012
2 Nanostructures of N/ZnO for photoelectrocatalysis of water impurities 2485/MUM/2012 27-08-2012