Dr R. S. Swathi
Associate Professor (Chemistry)
Recognitions for Dr. R. S. Swathi:
26. Editor, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Elsevier (April 2024-till date).
25. Editorial Advisory Board Member, ACS Applied Optical Materials, American Chemical Society (2023-2025).
24. Associate Editor, Bulletin of Materials Science, Indian Academy of Sciences (2023-2025).
23. Subject Editor, Comprehensive Computational Chemistry Series, Elsevier (2022-2023).
22. A V Rama Rao Foundation Prize Lecture in Chemistry by JNCASR, Bangalore (2020).
21. Editorial Advisory Board Member, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2018-2020).
20. Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Award of the National Academy of Sciences (NASI), Allahabad (2017).
19. Women Excellence Award, Department of Science and Technology-Science and Engineering Research Board (DST-SERB), Government of India (2017).
18. Young Scientist Award of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (2016).
17. Young Scientist Award of the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (2015).
16. Distinguished Lectureship Award of the Japanese Chemical Society for work on Theoretical Chemistry in the year 2015.
15. Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore for the duration 2014-2017.
14. Dr. J. C. Ghosh medal for the best PhD thesis in Physical Chemistry for the year 2010-2011.
13. Participated at the 59th meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau, Germany as a representative of Siemens Information Systems Limited (I was one among the two representatives selected from India).
12. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for the period 2008-2010.
11. Best Poster Presentation Award at the Discussion meeting on Theoretical Chemistry (TCS-2009) for the poster " Fluorescence resonance energy transfer-Does the rate always have a (distance)-6 dependence? " held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
10. A. R. VASUDEVAMURTHY-S. SOUNDARARAJAN Prize for the best student seminar at the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
9. Best Poster Presentation Award at the First Asian Spectroscopy Conference (ASC-2007) for the poster "Rate of excitation energy transfer from a dye molecule to a metal nanoparticle” held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
8. A. R. VASUDEVAMURTHY-S. SOUNDARARAJAN Prize for the best performance in course work at the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
7. Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE'05) with an All India Rank of 29 (Percentile score: 99.14).
6. Junior Research Fellowship and eligibility for Lectureship awarded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 2004.
5. Institute Silver Medal for being the topper at M. Sc. Chemistry program in the 7th convocation of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam.
4. Royal Society of Chemistry Summer Fellow at the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
3. Rank Certificate by the University of Mysore for topping the university at the undergraduate level.
2. Best Outgoing Student Award at the Regional Institute of Education, Mysore, Karnataka.
1. Prashant Memorial Award for the Best Outgoing Student at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.
Recognitions for students from Dr. R. S. Swathi's group:
4. Chris John:
Best Oral Presentation Award, Fourteenth JNC Research Conference on Chemistry of Materials, October 2018.
Title of the presentation: Revisiting Noble Gas Adsorption on Graphene and Boron Nitride Sheets: How Reliable are the Continuum and Atomistic Descriptions?
3. Gudla Harish:
Best Poster Award, Inter IISER and NISER Chemistry Meet, December 2017.
Title of the poster: Atomistic Model Potentials for Binding on Carbon Nanotubes: Lennard-Jones and Pairwise Potential Model.
2. S Chandra Shekar:
Best Poster Award, Chemistry with Computers - An International Symposium in Chemistry, January 2014.
Title of the poster: Stability of Nucleobases Adsorbed on Graphyne and Graphdiyne.Stability of Nucleobases and Base Pairs adsorbed on Graphyne and Graphdiyne
1. Reshmi Thomas:
(a) Best Poster Award, Inter IISER Chemistry Meet, December 2011.
Title of the poster: Optical Effects Near Metal Nanostructures: Towards Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy.
(b) Seventh JNC Conference on Chemistry of Materials, October 2011.
Title of the poster: Optical Effects Near Metal Nanostructures: Towards Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy.
(c) Participant, 63rd Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates, Lindau, Germany.
(d) Malhotra-Weikfeld Foundation Nanoscience Fellowship Award, 2012.