Stood First Rank in the order of merit in the M.Sc. (Applied Geology) final exam. 1999. University of Allahabad.

Qualified GATE-99, All India Rank 46th in Geology & Geophysics subject.~Doctoral Research Fellowship of Physical Research Laboratory (Dept of Space, Govt. of India). Isotope Geochemistry.

CSIR-NET exam Dec.-2001 for the National eligibility Test of Lectureship.

Received the Best presentation award in research student category for the paper "187Re-187Os systematics of Black Shale from the Vindhyans: Implication to their chronology" in ISMAS conference-2001 (Indian Society of Mass Spectrometry) held at Puri, Orissa, India.

DST young scientist prize (second) at the 3rd Meeting of the PAC-ES) at VIT University, Vellore. January, 2008

Isotope Geochemistry of Natural samples, Weathering fluxes of elements to ocean, Erosion and its variability in the Himalaya and the Ganga basin. Methodological developments for Mass spectrometry and chemical extraction for new elements for their isotopic composition TIMS.