BOOK
India in the Second Space Age of Interplanetary Connectivity
[Routledge India, 2021]
BOOK CHAPTERS
Moving Forward EU-India Relation: The Significance of the Security Dialogues [Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2017]
Editors. Nicola Casarini, Stefania Benaglia and Sameer Patil
Potential and Challenges of India-EU Space Cooperation
Habitability of the Universe before Earth [Academic Press-Elsevier, 2018]
Vol. 1. Ed. 1. Series: Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond; Editors. Alexei Sharov and Richard Gordon
Primitive Carbon: Before Earth and much Before any Life on it.
Differentiation of Enantiomers I [Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013]
Ed. 2. Series: Topics in Current Chemistry; Editor. Volker Schurig
Anisotropy spectra for chiral differentiation of biomolecular building blocks.
Biochirality: Origins, Evolution and Molecular Recognition [Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013]
Topics in Current Chemistry; Editor. Pedro Cintas
Synthesis and Chirality of Amino Acids under Interstellar Conditions.
POLICY PAPERS
March 2022
Gateway House: Indian Council for Global Relations
Achieving the Promise of Hydrogen for India and the World
May 2020
Gateway House: Indian Council for Global Relations
A Space Exploration Industry Agenda for India
July 2019
Gateway House: Indian Council for Global Relations
The Methane Economy: Prospects for a New-Age Fuel and Material in India
Canada-India Track 1.5 Dialogue Paper 3, November 2018
Center for International Governance Innovation & Gateway House: Indian Council for Global Relations
Making Terrestrial Geoengineering Technologies Viable: An Opportunity for India-Canada Climate Leadership
Policy Brief, September 2018
Russian International Affairs Council & Gateway House: Indian Council for Global Relations
Russia-India Cooperation against the Background of Sanctions: Adverse Effects and New Opportunities
White Paper, January 2018
The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine of the United States of America
Life-Detection Technologies for the Next Two Decades
JOURNAL LETTERS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS
ChemPlusChem
2022, e202200116
COSAC's Only Gas Chromatogram Taken on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
2
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
2022, e202201925
ESA's Cometary Mission Rosetta—Re-Characterization of the COSAC Mass Spectrometry Results
Elsevier - Planetary and Space Science
2021, 203, 105267
Evidence for protosolar graphene in Allende and QUE 94366 CV3 meteorites
MDPI Sustainability, 2021, 13 (14), 7614
The Post-COVID-19 Era: Interdisciplinary Demands of Contagion Surveillance Mass Spectrometry for Future Pandemics
American Chemical Society - Earth & Space Chemistry
ACS Earth Space Chem., 2018, 2 (12), pp 1256–1261
Fitting Cometary Sampling and Composition Mass Spectral Results Using Non-negative Least Squares: Reducing Detection Ambiguity for In SituSolar System Organic Compound Measurements.
Nature Publishing Group - Communications Chemistry
2018, 1 (30)
Simple prebiotic synthesis of high diversity dynamic combinatorial polyester libraries.
EDP Sciences - Astronomy & Astrophysics
2017, 600, A56
Decay of COSAC and Ptolemy mass spectra at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Cambridge University Press - International Journal of Astrobiology
2016, 15 (3), pp 231-238
Carbonization in Titan Tholins: implication for low albedo on surfaces of Centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects.
American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science
2015, 349, 6247
Organic compounds on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko revealed by COSAC mass spectrometry.
Elsevier - Planetary and Space Science
2014, 95, pp 45-55
Drainage systems of Lonar Crater, India: Contributions to Lonar Lake hydrology and crater degradation.
Elsevier - Planetary and Space Science
2014, 95, pp 45-55
Drainage systems of Lonar Crater, India: Contributions to Lonar Lake hydrology and crater degradation.
Wiley VCH - Angewandte Chemie International Edition
2014, 53 (1), pp 210-214
Photonenergy‐Controlled Symmetry Breaking with Circularly Polarized Light.
Royal Society Publishing - Chemical Society Reviews
2012, 41, pp 5447-5458
Chirality, photochemistry and the detection of amino acids in interstellar ice analogues and comets.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Universal Mass Spectrometry-Based Life Detection.
Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop, NASA Headquarters , Washington DC, USA, 27 Feb-1 Mar 2017
A perspective on the complex organic composition of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Goldschmidt 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015.
An overview of the measurements made by the COSAC instrument at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria. April 12-17, 2015.
The organic payload of comets and a scenario for the Late Heavy Bombardment phase.
International Symposium on Dating Origin of Life: Present-Day Molecules and First Fossil Record. Göttingen Academy of Sciences & Humanities, Göttingen, Germany. October 16-18, 2014.
The drainage systems developing on a hydrologically active impact crater, Lonar, India.
The Third Conference on Terrestrial Martian Analogues, Ibn Battuta Centre, Marrakech, Morocco. October 25-27, 2012.
Asymmetric Photochemistry of Amino Acids in Interstellar Ice Analogues and Comets.
21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Durham University, UK. September 09-13, 2012.
Formation and Chiroptical Properties of Amino Acids in Interstellar Ice Analogues.
COSPAR Assembly, Mysore, India. July 14-22, 2012.
The Future of India’s Space Exploration Program with Heavy-lift Launch Vehicles – Interaction with Global Frameworks and Indigenous Technologies.COSPAR Assembly, Mysore, India. July 14-22, 2012.
COSAC on Rosetta and its spin-off MOMA onboard ExoMars.
International Symposium on International Symposium on Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets: Observations and Modelling at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India. July 23-24, 2012.
Photochemical synthesis, chirality and detection of amino acids in interstellar ice analogues and comets.
NASA Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon), Atlanta, United States, April 16-20, 2012.
GRANTS & AWARDS
Feb. 2016 - Jan. 2018
Title: Assessing Fischer-Tropsch and Haber-Bosch type catalytic potential of meteoritic iron minerals
Amount: US$ 60,000
Association: Principal Investigator
Grant: John Templeton Foundation, Philadelphia PA, USA grant to ELSI Origins Network
Jun. 2017
Title: Elucidating the formation of organic compounds in carbonaceous chondrites
Amount: ¥ 5000000 (~ US$ 45000)
Association: Co-Investigator
Funding Agency: KAKENHI grants-in-aid from Japan Society for Promotion of Science
Jun. 2016
Title: Residual Gas Analyzer (RGA) for Identification and Measurement of Time Course Evolution of Gaseous Products in Prebiotic Synthesis Experiments
Amount: ¥ 1,100,000 (~ US$ 10000)
Association: Co-Investigator
Funding Agency: MEXT Japan grant to Earth Life Science Institute
Jun. 2015
The Dieter Rampacher Prize for 2014
Award: The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Munich, GERMANY
Feb. 2015
The 2014 Rising Star Award
Award: The Ruia College Alumni Association, Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai, INDIA
Sep. 2014 - Nov. 2015
Postdoctoral Fellowship,
Grant: German Aerospace Center (DLR) Grant in support of European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, GERMANY
Jul. 2012
COSPAR Travel Grant Prize
Prize: The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), Paris, FRANCE
Sep. 2011 - Sep. 2014
International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) Doctoral Fellowship
Grant: Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, GERMANY
Aug. 2009 - May 2011
National Merit Scholarship
Award: Department of Biophysics, University of Mumbai, INDIA
INVITED LECTURES
i
Rishihood University, Sonepat, INDIA (November 2021)
Godrej & Boyce Strategy Team, Mumbai, INDIA (September 2021)
United Nations India, New Delhi, INDIA (May 2021)
Sushma Swaraj Institute for Indian Foreign Services, New Delhi, INDIA (February 2021)
Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo, JAPAN (January 2021)
Institute of Climate Change, National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA (November 2020; 21)
Ministry of External Affairs Center for Contemporary China Studies, New Delhi, INDIA (October 2020; 21)
ELARA Capital, Mumbai, INDIA (September 2020)
Bombay Stock Exchange Institute, Mumbai, INDIA (July 2020)
Indian Council on World Affairs, New Delhi, INDIA (July 2020)
FLAME University, Pune, INDIA (December 2019)
Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, INDIA (December 2019)
Halifax International Security Forum, Halifax, CANADA (November 2019)
Russian International Affairs Council, Moscow, RUSSIA (November 2019)
Flame University, Pune, INDIA (October 2019)
Interdisciplinary Programme for Climate Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, INDIA (May 2019)
The Energy and Resources Institute New Delhi and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung New Delhi, INDIA (March 2019)
Indian Institute for Science Education and Research, Pune, INDIA (February 2019)
Center for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, CANADA (October 2018)
Maritime Research Center, Indian Maritime Foundation, Pune, INDIA (August 2018)
Institute for Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA, Sagamihara, JAPAN (October 2017)
NASA Headquarters, Washington DC, USA (March 2017)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA (February 2017)
Indian Institute for Science Education and Research, Mohali, INDIA (January 2017)
Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo, JAPAN (February 2016)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, GERMANY (August 2015)
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, INDIA (July 2015)
Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, INDIA (February 2015)
Ramnarain Ruia College, University of Mumbai, INDIA (February 2015)
Department of Geobiology, University of Göttingen, GERMANY (October 2014)
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen, GERMANY (January 2014)
Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai, INDIA (December 2013)
LATMOS, University of Paris VI, Paris, FRANCE (February 2013)
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, INDIA (July 2015; July 2012)
Planetary Exploration Research Center, Chiba Institute of Technology, JAPAN (October 2010)
Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, University of Tokyo, JAPAN (October 2010)