with a number of science organizations, in June 2016. He has delivered several keynote or invited lectures including those at the workshop on Advanced Tools for Nanoscopic Materials Characterization (2015), and Nanodays 2015. Awards and honors Ravishankar was selected for the Swarnajayanthi Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology for the year 2009–10. He received the MRSI Medal of the Materials Research Society of India in 2011 and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2012. The Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as their fellow in 2015. See also Nanotechnology References External links Further reading Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science 1970 births Indian scientific authors Indian metallurgists Indian materials scientists Banaras Hindu University alumni Indian Institute of Science alumni Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science University of Minnesota alumni Toyohashi University of Technology alumni Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences Living people