Awards & Grants

Research Grants

  • PI on NASA FINESST proposal (FI Lucas Reynoso) to study Ceres simulants, 2024-2027
  • Co-I & Institutional PI on NASA EW grant to understand H partitioning in nominally anhydrous minerals (PI: Dr. Ananya Mallik), 2024-2027
  • Co-I on NSF AAG grant to study the isotopic evolution of dust grains from a supernova explosion to bulk asteroid compositions (PI: Dr. Patrick Young), 2023-2026
  • PI on NASA Emerging Worlds proposal to study supernova and nova stardust in meteorites, 2022-2026
  • PI on the JPL SURP proposal to study volatiles in salts, 2022-2025
  • Co-I and Institutional PI on the ICAR proposal to study water in primitive chondritic meteorites (PI: Dr. Daniel Apai), 2021-2026
  • Co-I on the NSF ASU-SIMS Facility grant (PI: Dr. Richard Hervig), 2018-2024
  • Co-I on a NSF proposal to study Li in kerogen (PI: Dr. Lynda Williams), 2018-2021
  • Co-I on a proposal to Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) to study volatiles in asteroid regolith (PI: Dr. Steve Desch), 2014-2019
  • Co-I on a proposal to Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) to study organic matter in meteorites (PI: Dr. Daniel Apai), 2015-2019
  • NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship, 2007-2010

Awards

  • F. Earl Ingerson Lecture medal, Geochemical Society; Goldschmidt Meeting 2023
  • Scialog Fellow, 2022 & 2023, Research Corporation for Science Advancement funded by Heising-Simons Foundation, Kavli Foundation, Chan Foundation and NASA
  • Brian Mason Award, `Meteorite’ Magazine and the International Collectors Association, 2008
  • Dandevate Prize, Physics Department, Fergusson College, Pune, India, 2000