Research Awards:
Young Engineer's Award
Environmental Engineering Division
The Institution of Engineers (India)
2021 - 2022
Young Scientist Research Award
Board of Nuclear Sciences, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai.
Young Scientist Research Fellow
Tamilnadu State Council for Science & Technology, TNSCST
Summer Research Fellow
Indian Academy Sciences (IAS) & National Academy of Sciences (NASI)”, Bangalore.
Best Chemical Engineering Project
Srishti'18 - National Level Technical Project Exhibition and Competition’ in association with “National Instruments (NI)"
Best Environmental Engineering Project
PoweRIT - National Level Project Competition’ in association with “Zoho"
Best Design Project
Aarambam - National Level Project Competition’ in association with “Native Lead Foundation"
Research Grants:
2024 #DAADRISEWorldwide
Research Internship offers for UG #German Students:
1) Computational ecotoxicity studies of persistent personal care products (IN-EN_BI-6062) Mentor: Padmanaban V C
2) Metagenomic analysis of antibiotics resistance genes: Fate & Migration (IN-EN_BI-6064) Mentor: Kheerthana Ramesh
3) Optimized synthesis of biosurfactant & lipase toward a circular economy (IN-EN_EN-6065) Mentor: Roshan Jaiswal
Research Internship offers for UG #German Students:
1) Computational ecotoxicity studies of persistent personal care products (IN-EN_BI-6062) Mentor: Padmanaban V C
2) Metagenomic analysis of antibiotics resistance genes: Fate & Migration (IN-EN_BI-6064) Mentor: Kheerthana Ramesh
3) Optimized synthesis of biosurfactant & lipase toward a circular economy (IN-EN_EN-6065) Mentor: Roshan Jaiswal
2025 #DAADRISEWorldwide
Research Internship offers for UG #German Students:
1) Tracking AMR through Phylodynamics integrated genomic surveillance (IN_BI_0377) Mentor: Kheerthana Ramesh
2) Exploring differential sulphated polysaccharides from Marine Macroalgae
(IN_BI_0378) Mentor: Diya Das
Research Internship offers for UG #German Students:
1) Tracking AMR through Phylodynamics integrated genomic surveillance (IN_BI_0377) Mentor: Kheerthana Ramesh
2) Exploring differential sulphated polysaccharides from Marine Macroalgae
(IN_BI_0378) Mentor: Diya Das
DBT BIRAC: E-Yuva Award
Project Title: SURFMIN - Microbial surfactants assisted biohydrometallurgy towards the recovery of critical minerals from electronic waste
DBT BIRAC E-Yuva Awardees: Prerna M Gaidhani, Prerna Patil, Tania Dhul, Rayavarapu Gowtham Kishore;
Mentor: Dr V C Padmanaban
Funding Agency: DBT BIRAC, Govt of India; Duration: 2024 - 2025
Project Title: Antimicrobial resistance surveillance in the municipal black water of northeast India and its remediation through advanced oxidation processes
MSME Hackathon: R Kheerthana
Funding Agency / Amount: MSME, Govt of India / 15 Lakhs
Duration: 2024 - 2025
Project Title: Design of continuous heterogeneous photo-catalytic reactor immobilized with nano composites (as nano spheres) for the degradation of textile dyes.
Project Supervisor: Dr.V.C.Padmanaban
Project Fellow: N.Maheswari
Funding Agency: Indian Institution of Engineers, Kolkatta, India.
Duration: 2019 - 2020
Board of Nuclear Sciences, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai.
Project Title: Process Development for the degradation of textile dyes by wild type and radiation induced mutants.
Project Investigator: V.C.Padmanaban
Duration: 2013 - 2016
Indian Academy Sciences (IAS) & National Academy of Sciences (NASI)”, Bangalore.
Project Title: Design of Packed Bed reactor for the degradation of textile dyes.
Research Fellow: V.C.Padmanaban
Project Mentor: Prof.R.S.Singh, IIT-BHU
Duration: 2015 - 2016
Tamilnadu State Council for Science & Technology, TNSCST
Project Title: Kinetics studies on degradation of textile dyes by gamma radiation: Optimization through RSM & ANN.
Research Fellow: V.C.Padmanaban
Project Mentor: Dr.N.Selvaraju, NIT Calicut
Duration: 2015 - 2016
Indian Institution of Engineers, Kolkatta, India.
Project Supervisor: V.C.Padmanaban
Duration: 2012 - 2013