1998 - 2003; Ph. D. in Chemistry - Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India.
1996 - 1998; M. Sc. in Chemistry, Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, India.
1993 - 1996; B. Sc. in Chemistry, Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, India.

2017 - Present: Associate Professor - Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
2012 - 2017: Assistant Professor - Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
2008 - 2012: Research Professor - Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea
2004 - 2008: Postdoctoral Fellow - Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea

Best outgoing Post Graduation Student Award -1998, from Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, India.
University Research Fellowship - 1999.10 to 2002.01, from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India.
Young Scientist Award – 2001, from Indian Council of Chemists, India.
Senior Research Fellowship – 2002.02 to 2004.07, from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India, New Delhi.
IUCr Young Scientist Support – AsCA 2004 – from Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA), Hong Kong.
The Best Poster Award (Second Place) – 2010, in 2nd World Class University (WCU) Symposium on Nanobio Materials and Electronics, GIST, South Korea.
The Best Paper Award – 2016, in The International Conference on Advance Materials (SCICON’16), Oral presentation, Coimbatore, India.
The IRES Excellent Paper Award – 2018, for the category Best Presentation (Oral) / Best Content, at the The IRES International Conference, Chennai, India.
Best Poster Award – 2019, in International Forum on Functional Materials (IFFM), Poster presentation, Gangneung, South Korea.
Research Leadership Award of the Year 2020 - International Distinguished Researcher in Inorganic & Hybrid Nanomaterials Chemistry – Awarded by Research Under Literal Access (RULA), India.
Best Poster Award – 2020, in The International Conference on Web on Scope of Research in Science Post COVID-19, Poster presentation, Chennai, India.
Best Paper Award (Second Place) – 2020, in International Virtual Conference on Advances in Chemical Sciences - 2020, Oral presentation, Chennai, India.