ACHIEVEMENTS / AWARDS

• Awarded the Santhome Best Paper Award (2025), instituted by the Research and Development Cell of St. Thomas College (Autonomous), Thrissur.

• Recognized as the Best Research Scholar in Botany for high-impact factor publications by St. Thomas College (Autonomous), Thrissur.

• Secured Second Position in the RSC Best Poster Presentation Award at the International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Sciences and Technology (AIST 2025), organized by Newman College, Thodupuzha, Kerala, from 19–21 December 2025.

• Best Poster Award for the paper titled “Flowering Plants of Idukki Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, Kerala” at the International Biodiversity Congress held at the Forest Research Institute of India, Dehradun, from 4–6 October 2018.

• Best Paper Presentation Award for the paper titled “The Diversity and Distribution of Osbeckia L. of Kerala” at the National Seminar on Flowering Plant Reproduction & Diversity, organized by Fatima Mata National College, Kollam, on 9–10 January 2015.

• First Rank Holder in M.Sc. Botany Examination (2014), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.

• Second Prize in the Dr. V. J. Dominic Endowment All Kerala Inter-Collegiate M.Sc. Botany Project Presentation Competition, organized by the Kerala Botanical Society at St. Peter’s College, Kolencherry, on 18 October 2014.

• Qualified for the CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship in Life Sciences, conducted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (Government of India), June 2014, with an All India Rank of 43.

• Qualified for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Life Sciences, conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2014, with an All India Rank of 141.