• Appointed as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Microbiomes (Environmental Microbiomes Section)

• Appointed as a Mentor for the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Future Leaders Mentorship Fellowship (FLMF) program (2025–2027)

• Co-editor of special issue ‘Women in Microbiomes’ for Frontiers in Microbiomes (2024-present) - Click here to Submit!

• Appointed to the Early-career Editorial Board of the ISME Journal (2024-present)

• Appointed to the Early-career Editorial Board of mBio (ASM) Journal (2024-2026)

• Review Editor for Microbiome, Frontiers in Microbiomes, Scientific Reports, Systematic and Applied Microbiology, Marine Environmental Research, Polar Biology etc. (2023-present)

• DFG Research Grant (German Research Foundation) (2025-2028)

• CSIR-UGC Junior and Senior Research Fellowship for PhD (Govt. of India) (2012-2017)

• Travel Grant, Department of Biotechnology (DBT, Govt. of India) (2017)

• Best Poster Prize, International Congress on microbial interaction and applications of Beneficial microbes, Munich (2017)

• Winner of Science fest on Interschool, Tehsil and District levels.

• Supervision and co-supervision of Masters' and PhD students (2017-present)

• Member of examination board of PhD defense committee (2024-present)

• Member of PhD advisory board of graduate students (2020-present)

• Yearly lectures for Bioinformatics/NGS/OMICs course (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology,  Bremen) (2020-2023)

• Course BCH-3101 Molecular Biology (Panjab University, Chandigarh, India) (2017 - six-months)   

• Invited talk at the Institute of Informatics and Mathematics, University of Greifswald, Germany (2025).

• Invited talk at the Centre of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India (2025). Press release: Technical Aspects in Bioinformatics

• Invited talk at the International Symposium on Complex Mixtures in Aquatic Systems (COMPASS) held at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst (2025)

• Invited talk, Alfred Wegener Institute - Coastal Summer School, Helgoland (2024)

• Invited talk, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Wilhelmshaven, Germany (2024)

• Invited Conference talk, Marine Flavobacteriia Conference, Station Biologique de Roscoff, France (2024)

• Interview with German Newspaper - Weser Kurier (Warum Wissenschaftler gefräßige Bakterien mögen) (2023)

• Poster Presentation, Gordon Research Conference (GRC), Boston, USA (2023)

• Poster Presentation, ISME18 Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland (2022)

• Invited talk, PCTE Group of Institutes, Punjab, India (2022)

• Poster Presentation, ASM13, Chandigarh, India (2016)

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