My active involvement in science experiments and extra-curricular activities awarded “Best boy” of RLS Degree college, Belgaum, India in the year 2007.
Appreciation "Plaque" from GTC, Texas, US company, stating “Presented to Dr. Ganapati Shanbhag and his students Mr. Vijaykumar Marakatti and Mr. H. L. Janardhan in recognition of their dedicated research in developing a modified zeolite catalyst enabling continued commercial exploration of this important aromatics technology.
"Letter of Appreciation and Cash Prize" from Chairman of Admar Mutt Education Foundation, for extensive research work for the development of zeolite catalyst, Characterization, and testing catalyst for Toluene alkylation. The Experiment data we generated mad GTC Technology to go commercial exploitation for aromatic production.
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“Best Poster” award for research work on "Tin (II) hydroxy chloride: A Novel Solid Brønsted Acid Catalyst for Selected Condensation Reactions” out of 70 presented in the National Workshop on Catalysis, CSIRNEERI, Nagpur, Maharashtra on 4-5, Feb 2014 sponsored by Catalysis Society of India.
“Best Presenter” award in the Seventh school of analytical chemistry (SAC-7) organized at Heavy Water Plant, Manu guru, Andhra Pradesh (2013) in association with Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) and association of environmental analytical chemistry of India (AEACI). (unfortunately, personal photography was not allowed in this Premise)
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This school takes place every year, students who want to participate in this workshop, I highly recommend to look at this site
http://www.aeaci.org/contact-us/
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Awarded "National Post-doctoral Fellowship" (Principle Investigator, 2016-18) funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board(SERB), Govt of India, which includes salary, overhead, and research grant. (19 Lakh Indian rupees)
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Project: "Design and Development of Ordered Intermetallic supported Nanocatalysts for the conversion of Bio-renewable feedstock"
Based on my industrial and catalysis experience get involved in the project, CO2 conversion to methanol with the start-up company Breathe and was one of the leading team members in the group.
This effort led Breathe to enter the final of NRG COSIA X-prize, USA ($5million green prize) for development of a catalyst for the conversion of CO2 to methanol in the high-pressure reactor
(https://carbon.xprize.org/prizes/carbon/teams/breathe).
My postdoc mentor and Breathe company Co-founder receiving the award at New York summit.
Short listed for "Inspire Faculty" (Ref File No DST/INSPIRE/04/2017/001693) in Materials Science division but was not selected for funding.
Received prestigious "Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship" (MSCA-IF) by the European Union. (H20H20) from Aug 2019-2021 on the project entitled "synthetically tuned electronic and geometrical properties of Intermetallic compounds for the Ammonia Synthesis"
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Link to my project details can be found here
Best Oral Presentation
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Virtual International Conference on Sustainable Energy and
Environmental Technologies (V-ICSEET-2020), Reva
University, Bengaluru.India.
