Awarded INQUA-funded multi-year project "Landuse-landcover mapping and modelling using pollen and isotopic data in different ecological regions of the monsoon" (LEM) project's International School and Symposium-2023.

Recipient of CAS-PIFI Presidential Visiting Scientist Fellowship 2016 at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Received Best Paper Presentation Award at the National Conference on "Recent Development in Plant and Earth Sciences" held on November 28-29, 2013, at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow.

Awarded CAS-TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences) Visiting Scholar Fellowship 2012 at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Received CAS-TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences) Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2010 at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Awarded Women Scientist Scheme (WOS-A) (SR/WOS-A/ES-18/2009) for the project titled "Studies on Quaternary vegetation, climate change and human habitation in the Central Ganga Plain".

Recipient of Young Scientist Research Project (SR/FTP/ES-127/2010) under Fast Track Scheme by DST, New Delhi in 2010 for the project "Multiproxy records for Quaternary palaeoclimatic change, vegetation dynamics and relative human impact on the environment in the Central Ganga Plain".

Awarded Research Associate position by CSIR, New Delhi from 2007-2010 to work on the Research project (09/107(0312)/2006-EMR-1) titled "Holocene vegetation and climate change of the Central Ganga Plain".

Completed thesis titled "Vegetational History and Inferred Climate in Jammu Region Through Lake Sediment Palynological Studies" in 2005 at the Department of Botany, Lucknow University, Lucknow.

Awarded Senior Research Fellowship by CSIR from 2002 to 2004 at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, with continued work from Jammu.

Received the prestigious BRPM Gold Medal from the Governor for the best research paper presentation at the 21st Annual Session of "Academy of Environmental Biology" on November 7, 2000, at Acharya Narendra Dev Agriculture University, Faizabad.

Served as Junior Research Fellow from 1999 to 2001 at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, under DST Sponsored Project (ESS/ CA/A4-22/96) titled "The Transition of Lacustrine Faunal and Floral Communities across Pleistocene–Holocene in Jammu and Ladakh".

Core Member of Deep Lake Coring Project (QLDP), BSIP

Core Member, Asian Biodiversity Portal Committee, BSIP, Lucknow

Fellow of Palaeobotanical Society of India

Life Member of Palaeontological Society of India

Life Member of Academy of Environmental Biology

Member of Neogene Climate Evolution in Eurasia (NECLIME)

Member of Paleoclimates (PALCOM), INQUA

Member of Terrestrial Processes, Deposits, and History (TERPRO), INQUA

Member and Expert in Paleoclimate, Ecology and Heritage Research Foundation (PALEOHER)

Member of  Pal(a)eo PERCS Community