Dr N. Anand
Assistant Professor Grade I (Earth, Environmental and Sustainability Sciences)
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- Associate, Indian Academy of Sciences, 2023
- Excellence in teaching award, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, 2023, 2024
- Editorial board member, Current Science, Indian Academy of Sciences (2025)
- Guest Editor for the Journal of the Optical Society of America-A and Applied Optics (2025)
- Department of Science and Technology (DST) Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) – DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship 2020 awarded by the Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India
- Convenor and Chair, Advances in Aerosol Observations over the Polar, Marine, High-Altitude and Remote Environments, European Geoscience Union, Vienna, Austria, 2025 (EGU25)
- Youth delegate from India at the United Nations Climate Change conference (COP25) held at Madrid, Spain in December 2019, in the Global Alliance of Universities on Climate
- Best PhD thesis award from the Optical Society of India (OSI) awarded during the Frontiers in Optics and Photonics 2021 (FOP21) organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD)
- National Working Group committee member, Organics in Space research collaboration (2023).
- Young scientist travel grant under the International Travel Support scheme awarded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India, in 2019
- Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, research fellowship (2015 – 2020)
- Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, Master's student fellowship (2012 – 2014)
- Jeremy Grantham fellowship for outstanding academic records during PhD work, awarded by Divecha Centre for Climate Change, IISc Bengaluru (2016 – 2020)
- Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) student travel grant to attend the SPIE Optics + Photonics conference at San Diego, California, USA in August 2019
- Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan National Social Science Exhibition-cum-National Integration Camp Quiz, 2007: Fourth prize in the Nationals and first in the Southern zone
- First prize in the University of Kerala youth festival Quiz, 2010; Fourth in the South Zone Inter University Youth Festival Quiz, 2010
- Technical Programme Committee member for the Optical Society of America (OSA) international conference – Propagation Through and Characterization of Atmospheric and Oceanic Phenomena (pcAOP) 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- Reviewer for the journals: Optics Letters, Applied Optics, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Optics Express, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Access, SPIE Optical Engineering, Optical and Quantum Electronics, IET Optoelectronics, IOP Journal of Optics, IOP Environmental Research Communications, Springer Journal of Optics, IOP Physica Scripta, IOP Journal of Physics Communications, and Optik
- Reviewer for Optica Amplify scholarship 2023, 2024; Optica Women Scholars program 2022, 2023, 2024