Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

  • Joined the Editorial Board of Nature Scientific Reports, May 2023
  • Elected as Vice-President of the Plasma Science Society of India (PSSI) in its newly formed Executive Council for the term 2022-2024.

Prizes/Awards

  • Received the Year-2022 Jaidutt Saraswati Sodha PSSI Plasma Award for significant contributions to low-temperature plasma applications particularly for clean air, water purity, environmental safety, and efficient energy systems. The award is given to Indian Scientists annually, below the age of 50 years, who have made significant research contributions through publications in reputed journals in plasma physics (ranging from fundamental phenomena to novel applications, thermonuclear fusions, etc.).
  • Received Foundation Day Award for Recognition of Excellence in Research as Team Member of the project entitled "Pseudospark Discharged Electron Beam Driven Compact Plasma Assisted Slow Wave Oscillator" Conferred on 21st September 2018 by CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani.
  • Received best paper award in the 27th National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (Plasma-2012) organized at Pondicherry University, Puducherry during 10-13 December, 2012.
  • Received "Vishesh Vaigyanik Rajbhasha Vishishtha Samman" for contributions in Hindi in the area of science and technology which was awarded by Bharatiya Rajbhasha Vikas Sansthan, Dehradun during a national conference on "Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sangosti" held at Shimla, India during 10-12 October 2012.
  • Received 2nd Prize for paper presentation in the “First International Conference on Plasma Processing of Organic Materials and Polymers (PPOMP)” held at Mahatama Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India during 25-27 Nov, 2011.
  • Research paper nominated for ENI International Award 2011 entitled “Calibration of a VUV spectrograph by Collisional-Radiative modeling of a discharge plasma” authored by Ram Prakash et al. J. Phys. B: At.Mol.Opt. Phys. 5 July 43 (2010) 144012(5pp). The Eni Enrico Mattei Foundation, Italy, initiates the award.
  • SERC Fast Track young scientist award for the year 2003-04 from DST, Govt. of India. This award contained a three years independent project (i.e. under own principal investigatorship) to implement a few innovative ideas on computational quantitative plasma spectroscopy for fusion research in India.
  • First prize for best scientific paper in the 15th National plasma symposium Plasma-2000, held at SINP Calcutta, India during 5-8 December 2000.
  • Plasma Science Society of India (PSSI) research grant award in year 1998- 1999.
  • First prize for overall performance in the IVth SERC School held at “Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad (Gujarat) during April 6-29, 1998 on the topic “Electromagnetic Probing of Upper Atmosphere”.

Medals

Silver Medal for securing second position in M. Sc.

Fellowships received

  1. Received “Better Opportunities for Young Scientists in Chosen Areas of Science and Technology (BOYSCAST)” fellowship from Department of Science and Technology (DST) Govt. of India for the year 2005-06. Under this scheme, an advance research on “Quantitative plasma spectroscopy and impurity transport in Tokamak plasma” was carried out at Max-Planck-Institute fur Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany during 1st March 2006 to 30th August 2006.
  2. Received Post Doctoral Fellowship from Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar (DAE, GoI organization) during July 2002 to Sep 2004.
  3. Received Senior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India during April 2000 to June 2002.

Awarded Best Research Papers (As Guide):

  • Best paper award on research paper entitled "Study of Humidity Effect on Indoor Air Purification by Atmospheric Pressure Cold Plasma Source" authored by Ramavtar Jangra, Kiran Ahlawat, M. Krishna Mohan, and Ram Prakash for presentation by Ramavtar Jangra in the National Symposium on Gaseous Discharges (NSGD-2023) held at Pondicherry University, Puducherry during 8-11 August, 2023.
  • 2nd Prize on paper entitled "Cold Plasma-based Nitrogen Fixation for Global Agricultural Needs" in the theme "Technologies for Sustainability" authored by Shikha Pandey, Sushma, Ritesh Mishra and Ram Prakash for poster presentation by Shikha Pandey in the 3rd Industry Day of Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur held during 3rd-4th February, 2023.
  • Best paper award on research paper "DBD Plasma Based High-Efficiency Indoor Air Purifier" authored by Ramavtar Jangra, Kiran Ahlawat, Ambesh Dixit, and Ram Prakash for the oral presentation by Ramavtar Jangra in the 37th National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (Plasma-2022) held at IIT Jodhpur during 12-14 December, 2022.
  • Best paper award on research paper "Indigenous High Power Pseudospark Switches for Fast Pulse Power Applications" authored by R. P. Lamba, U. N. Pal, and Ram Prakash for the best oral presentation by Mr. R. P. Lamba in the 36th National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (Plasma-2021) held at Birla Institute of Technology, Jaipur during 13-15 December, 2021.
  • BUTI Young Scientist Award on research paper “Optimization Studies of Pseudospark Sourced Electron Beam for Development of Plasma Assisted Slow Wave Oscillator” authored by Niraj Kumar, Udit Narayan Pal and Ram Prakash, given to Ph. D. Scholar Mr. Niraj Kumar in the 31st National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (Plasma-2017) organized at at IPR, Ghandhinagar during 7-10 Nov, 2017.
  • Best paper award on research paper "Indigenously developed pseudospark discharge based high current switch" authored by Ram Prakash Lamba, B. L. Meena, Udit Narayan Pal, Niraj Kumar and Ram Prakash in the 31st National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (Plasma-2017) organized at IPR, Ghandhinagar during 7-10 Nov, 2017.
  • Best paper award on research paper "Development of Cold Plasma Jet Using Floating Helix Electrode Configuration" authored by G. Divya Deepak, N. K. Joshi and Ram Prakash in the 31st National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (Plasma-2017) organized at IPR, Ghandhinagar during 7-10 Nov, 2017.
  • 2nd Prize on research paper "Indigenous development of high power plasma switches for strategic applications" authored by Udit Narayan Pal, B. L. Meena, H. K. Dwivedi, R. P. Lamba, Mahesh Kumar and Ram Prakash in the Young Scientists’ Conclave (YSC) of India International Science Festival-2016 held at NPL, New Delhi 8-11 Dec. 2016.
  • Ist Prize on research paper "Atmospheric-Pressure Dielectric Barrier Discharge Cold Plasmas for Societal Applications" authored by Pooja Gulati, U.N. Pal and Ram Prakash which was presented in the International Workshop on Emerging Opportunities and Trends in Basic and Applied Science (EMOTABS-2016) held at Dau Dayal Institute of Vocational Education, Dr B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra during 22 - 24 January 2016.
  • 2nd Prize on research paper "Dispersion relation analysis for deeper corrugation of a rippled wall slow wave structure" authored by Nalini Pareek, Niraj Kumar , U. N. Pal and Ram Prakash which was presented in the National Plasma Scholars' colloquium (PSC-2015) held at the Department of Physics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata from 6-7 August 2015.
  • Best paper award on research paper "Laboratory plasma based simultaneous light emission source of visible and VUV lights useful for VUV- spectrometer-detector system calibration" authored by Gheesa Lal Vyas, Ram Prakash, Udit Narayan Pal, Ranjana Manchanda and Nilanjan Halder which was presented in the 3rd Rajasthan Congress held at Manipal University, Jaipur during February 28- March 02, 2015.
  • Best paper award on research paper title "Dielectric barrier discharge based VUV/UV excimer plasma sources for societal and industrial applications” authored by Ram Prakash, U.N. Pal, Pooja Gulati, Niraj Kumar, G. L. Vyas, Jalaj Jain, Mahesh Kumar and V. Srivastava which was presented in the 27th National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (Plasma-2012) organized at Pondicherry University, Puducherry during 10-13 December, 2012.
  • BUTI Young Scientist Award on research paper “Development and characterization studies of DBD based ultraviolet light sources” authored by U. N. Pal, S. Konar and Ram Prakash, given to Ph. D. Scholar Mr. U. N, Pal in the 27th National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (Plasma-2012) organized at Pondicherry University, Puducherry during 10-13 December, 2012.
  • 3rd prize on research paper “Perspective of technology development for high power plasma assisted microwave source 'PASOTRON'” authored by Niraj Kumar, Udit Narayan Pal, Deepak Kumar Verma, Jitendra Prajapati, Mahesh Kumar, Bharat Lal Meena, Vishnu Srivastava, Y. Choyal and Ram Prakash, given to Ph. D. Scholar Mr. Niraj Kumar in the “National Conference on Vacuum Electronic Devices & Applications (VEDA- 2012)” organized at CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, Rajasthan during 21-24 Sept. 2012.
  • 3nd Prize on research paper “Analysis of discharge parameters and optimization study of coaxial DBDs for efficient excimer light sources” U. N. Pal, Pooja Gulati, N. Kumar, M. Kumar, V. Srivastava and Ram Prakash given to Ph. D. Scholar Mr. U. N, Pal in the “First International Conference on Plasma Processing of Organic Materials and Polymers (PPOMP)” held at Mahatama Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India during 25-27 Nov, 2011.
  • Best paper award for the research paper “Opacity Effect on Photon Emissivity Coefficients (PECs) of Neutral Helium Line Emissions and its Impact on Line Ratios” authored by J. Jain, G. L. Vyas, R. Kumar, R. Manchanda and Ram Prakash, given to Ph. D. Scholar Mr. Jalaj Jain in the 25th National symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (Plasma-2010) held at IASST, Guwahati, during 8-11 Dec, 2010.

Start-up Awards:

  • M/s Divya Plasma Solutions Pvt.Ltd -A start-up company promoted by Ram Prakash from Department of Physics received the Ist Prize in the two days Exhibition on the occasion of the National MSME Conclave-2023 organized by the Ministry of MSME Govt. of India at IIT Jodhpur during 21-22 September, 2023.
  • M/s Divya Plasma Solutions Pvt.Ltd -A start-up company promoted by Ram Prakash from Department of Physics received the Ist Prize in the two days Exhibition on the occasion of the Industry Day of IIT Jodhpur during 01-02 February, 2024.

Other Distinctions

  • Chaired a Technical Session on Plasma Applications in the 36th National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (Plasma-2021) organized at Birla Institute of Technology, Jaipur during 13-15 December, 2021.
  • Invited as a consultant by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Atomic & Molecular Data Unit on “Capabilities of Collisonal-Radiative Modelling and Atomic Data Needs for Fusion Plasma Spectroscopy” during 8-12 June, 2009 at Wagramer Stresse 5, PO Box 100, 1400 Wien, Austria.
  • Chaired a Technical Session in the 40th IOP Annual Spring Conference on Plasma Physics held at University of York, York, U.K during 25-28, March, 2013.
  • Received an Award Citation for the excellent work in Plasma Technology from Poddar International College Jaipur at the auspicious occasion of National Science Symposium on “Emerging Trends and Opportunities in Basic and Applied Sciences” held on 30th January 2010 at Poddar International College Jaipur.
  • Chaired a session in an International Workshop on “Observational and Modeling Anomalies” in the 14th Atomic Data and Analysis Structure (ADAS- 2008) International Workshop held at Institute of Energy Research–Plasma Physics, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany during 29th Sep-2nd Oct 2008.
  • Marquis Who's Who has published biographical profile in the 32nd Edition of Who's Who in the World (2015).