Awards/Honors/Fellowships

• Post doctoral Fellowship- University of Liege, Belgium. October 2009 to September 2010.
• Post doctoral Fellowship- University of Liege, Belgium. October 2008 to September 2009.
• Post doctoral Fellowship- University of Liege, Belgium. October 2007 to September 2008.
• Research Associate-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (ICAR), India December 2005 to September 2007
• Senior Research Fellow : Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (ICAR), India September 2001 to April 2005
• Travel grant: CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL), Geelong, Australia August 2006 to October 2006
• Selected by Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India for “Interactive Meet of Indian Research Scholars with European and Indian Science Icons”. Attended the meet on February, 8, 2007 at New Delhi and had an opportunity to interact with Noble Prize winners and also our former President of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

Journal Referee

• Emerging infectious disease (CDC)
• Eurosurveillance (ECDC)
• Journal of Virological Methods (Elsevier)
• MethodX (Elsevier),
• BMC Microbiology (BioMed Central)
• Expert Review of Vaccines (Taylor & Francis online)