Membership in Committees

• Chairman, Peer Review Committee, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 2009
• Member of the Jury, DuPont Plunkett Awards, Asia Pacific, 2007
• Member, Management Advisory Committee for Catalysis Research (DST), IIT, Madras, Chennai 2007-11
• Project Director, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India 2005-06 Member, Committee to the Draw the Vision Document for IISERs, Ministry of human Resources Development Development, Government of India, 2004-05
• Visitor�s Nominee for Selection for the Post of Professors in the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai 2005-08
• Chairman, Advisory Committee, Promotion of Innovations in Individuals, Start Ups and MSME�s( PRISM), Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, 2013-present
• Chair, Committee to Select S.S.Bhatnagar Prize Winners in Chemical Sciences, Human Resources Development Group, CSIR, New Delhi, 2012- 13
• Chief Mentor, CSIR�NMITLI Projects to promote public private partnership in R&D, 2011-13
• Chief Mentor and National Coordinator, TAPSUN, a CSIR inter-laboratory programme on Solar Energy harvesting and conversion, 2011 to present
• Member, Joint Venture Committee, National Civil Aircraft Development Programme, 2011-12
• Invited member, Governing Body and Society for CSIR,New Delhi, 2011-13
• Co-Chair, Alcoa-CSIR Innovation Council , 2007-09
• Member, P&G-CSIR Research Management Board , 2005-10
• Member, Governing Body, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, 2008-10
• Chairman, Committee to Revamp Procurement Procedures in CSIR, 2006-2008