Post Doctoral Fellow
Centre for Ecological Sciences
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bangalore, India
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2024: SERB Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for two years at IISc, Bangalore.
2020: Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship from USIEF 2020-21 at the University of California, Davis.
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2016: Summer Research Fellowship by Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore, to conduct research at Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow.
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2016: Junior Research Fellowship by Sports Authority of India (Project – Comprehensive Scientific Assessment of Indian players ).
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2014: Create to Inspire fellowship by WWF India and Microsoft (Project – Urban Biodiversity).
Fellowships
Research Grants
2019: Doctoral Research Grant (US$ 14,107) for conducting research entitled-Exploring tool-use by long-tailed macaques in the Nicobar Islands, India and associated factors.
2018: International Primatological Society Research Grant (US$ 1,500) for conducting research entitled- Tool-aided foraging behaviour by Macaca fascicularis umbrosus of Nicobar island.
Travel Grants
2022: Awarded the ASP Ruppenthal Student Travel Awards to attend 2022 meeting in Denver and present a talk.
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2022: European Union (KREAS) awarded full travel grant to organize a session and presenter in World Archaeology Congress (WAC -9) Prague 3rd to 8th July 2022.
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2019: Student travel grant (€ 1000) by International Society for Advancement of Kinanthropometry Student travel grant for presenting a paper at the ISAK International Conference in Alicante 2nd -10th July 2020 (Postponed to 2022).
2019: Awarded the student travel grant (GB£1000) by British Ecological Society (BES) to present work at the BES Annual conference in Dublin, Ireland from 10th to 13th December 2019. (Declined)
2019: Travel grant (AU$1150) by the Asia Pacific Conference on Human Evolution (APCHE) committee to present work at the APCHE conference in Brisbane, Australia from 25th to 27th June 2019.
2018: Awarded the student travel grant by Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA) to present work at the 21st IPPA international conference in Hue, Vietnam, from 23rd to 28th September 2018.
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2018: SERB-DST International Travel Support for presenting a paper at the International Primatological
Society 27th Congress 2018, Nairobi from 19th to 27th August 2018.
2018: International Society for Advancement of Kinanthropometry Student travel grant (NZ$ 2,000) for
presenting a paper at the ISAK International Conference in Chile 29th June-2nd July 2018. (Declined)
2017: Students Travel Grant by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research to present a paper at a conference in London organized by Primate Society of Great Britain 27th to 29th November 2017.
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