Details of Honours / Awards Received :        

·         Junior Research Fellowship (CSIR), India :1982 to 1984.

·         Senior Research Fellowship (CSIR), India :1984 to 1987.

·         Research Associateship (CSIR), India : 1987 to 1988.

·         Senior DAAD Fellowship, Bonn, Germany : 3 months (1997).

·         DAAD Fellowship (Mentor), Germany: 14 Days  (1999).

·         Project Award: CSIR Foundation Day Award , CECRI, Karaikudi : Sept. 2000.

·         Visiting Professor, Institute of Materials Chemistry & Engineering, Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan : 2003 (100 Days).

·         Brain Pool Invitation Fellowship, Korean Federation for Science and Technology Societies, Seoul, Korea: 2001 (23 Months).

·         Highest Impact factor Award to Scientist: CSIR Foundation Day Award, CECRI, Karaikudi : Sept. 2004.

·         Member, Research Board of Advisors, American Biographical Institute, USA., 2005.

·         Coordinator in the area of Storage Materials/Batteries under the CSIR National Solar Energy Mission Project (TAP-SUN) (April 2011 to 2017).

·         Lithium Ion Rocking Chair Using Li₂MnO₃ as Positive Electrode -S.Chitra, P.Kalyani, T.Mohan and Gopukumar. S - J. Power Sources, 80 (1-2) 1999, 103 – 106. (Referred as an Invention)

·         Member – Selection committee of SRF/RA under CSIR, Human Resource Division, New Delhi, February 2012.

·         Chairing Session – Materials Research Society (IUMRS 2012), Singapore, June, 2012.

·         Member - Meeting on National Mission on Competitiveness Council for Lithium ion Battery Manufacturing in India, Ministry of Commerce, New Delhi, February, 2013.

·         Chairing Session – 223^rd Electrochemistry Society Meeting, May 2013, Toronto, Canada.

·         Front Cover Page - The research work has been highlighted in the front cover page of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics – A Royal Society Journal, UK : PCCP., 15 (1), 2013.

·         International Advisory Board Member - Asian Conference on Electrochemiscal Power Sources instituted in 2006.

·         Member - DST: Expert Group Meeting : Clean Energy Research Initiative - 2015 to 2018.

·         CASE Distinguished Lecture: Lithium ion Batteries, Department of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA, 20^th to 22^th May 2013.

·         Materials Research Society of India Award, 2015.

·         h- Index: 25

·         Citations :  > Journals - 1578  and Patent - 1         (Self citation not included)