"The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king."

  Recognition



Prof. I.N.N. Namboothiri :

  1. Jean D'Alembert Senior Fellowship, Paris-Saclay University, France (2022-23)

  2. Departmental Excellence in Teaching Award, IIT Bombay (2020)

  3. Elected Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (2020)

  4. Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal (2014)

  5. Elected Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India (2013-)

  6. Robert Welch Postdoctoral Fellowship (1997-98)

  7. Karnataka Students Welfare Association Scholarship for outstanding performance in MSc (1988)


Group Members :

  1. C. Sivasankara, Best Poster Award, 26th Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) National Symposium in Chemistry (NSC-26), February 6-9, 2020, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu.

  2. Kalisankar Bera, IIT Bombay Best Thesis Award, 2016.

  3. Nishikant Satam, Best Poster Award, International Symposium on Nascent Developments in Chemical Science (NDCS-2015), October 16, 2015, BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan, India, N. S. Satam and I. N. N. Namboothiri.

  4. Nishikant Satam, Best Poster Award, National Symposium on Emerging Trends in Chirality, Medicinal Chemistry and Perfumery (ETCMP-15), February 04, 2015, Vaze College, Mulund, Mumbai, India.

  5. Lakshminarayana Satam, Best Poster Award, International Symposium on Recent Advances in Medicinal Chemistry (ISRAM-2014), National Institute for Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), September 08-10, 2014, Mohali, India.

  6. Divya K. Nair, Best Oral Presentation Award, National Conference on Advances in Synthetic and Material Chemistry (NCASMC-2014), March 10-11, 2014, University of Mumbai, India.

  7. Rahul Kumar, IIT Bombay Best Thesis Award, 2014.

  8. O. P. Oommen, Student Speaker at the 13th NOST Symposium, May 01-04, 2009, Majorda Beach Resort, Goa.

  9. R. Muruganantham, Best Oral Presentation in a Session Award, Students Symposium, Royal Society of Chemistry, West India Section, October 19-20, 2007, Goa University, Goa.

  10. Vishal Rai, Student Speaker at the 12th NOST Symposium, July 7-10, 2007, Majorda Beach Resort, Goa

  11. O. P. Oommen, Best Overall Presentation (Oral + Poster) Award, Students Symposium, Royal Society of Chemistry, West India Section, October 13-14, 2006, M. S. University, Baroda.

  12. Vishal Rai, Young Scientist Award, National Symposium, March 24-25, 2006, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

  13. Vishal Rai, Best Overall Presentation (Oral + Poster) Award, Students Symposium, Royal Society of Chemistry, West India Section, November 25-26, 2005, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.

  14. Madhu Ganesh, Best Oral Presentation Award, Students Symposium, Royal Society of Chemistry, West India Section, September 24-25, 2004, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

  15. Namrata Rastogi, Student Speaker at the 10th NOST Symposium, October 29-November 2, 2003, Majorda Beach Resort, Goa