Awards and Honours

Sourav Sengupta

• Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Innovative Student Projects Award at Doctoral Level for Ph. D Thesis in 2022

• Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) Ambujas Young Researcher’s Award in 2016

• Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Innovative Student Projects Award at Master’s Level for M. Tech Thesis in 2016

• All India Rank 36 in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2014 in Chemical Engineering (among 15844 candidates)

• Campus Placement offer (during Bachelors programme) in 2013 from Indian Oil Corporation Limited, a Fortune 500 company. Worked there for one year, resigned thereafter to pursue higher studies. 

• Selected for the TIFR Visiting Students’ Research Programme (VSRP) in 2012, a competitive summer fellowship programme awarded by Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India. 

• Selected for the JNCASR Summer Research Fellowship Programme (SRFP) in 2011, a competitive fellowship programme jointly awarded by Department of Science & Technology (DST), India and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) Bangalore, India. 

• Qualified in National Standard Examination in Astronomy (NSEA) 2006, (i.e., 1st Level of Astronomy Olympiad), by being among Top 300 students across India, and became eligible to appear for Indian National Astronomy Olympiad (INAO), conducted by HBCSE, TIFR, Govt. of India. Also, recipient of the Certificate of Merit, for being placed in the State's Top 1% (in the state of West Bengal), issued by Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT), in NSEA 2006. 

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