ASI Awards for 2025

Dear Colleague,

It is with great pleasure that we announce the recipients of the ASI awards for the year 2025. The awards will be given out during the upcoming ASI-2026 meeting at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.

1. ASI Zubin Kembhavi Award (Observational and Instrumentation work in Astronomy and allied fields) - GROWTH India Team

2. Laxminarayana & Nagalaxmi Modali Award - Dr. Girish Kulkarni (TIFR)

3. Justice Oak Award for Outstanding Thesis in Astronomy - Dr. Prateek Mayank (Thesis - IIT Indore)

  Honorable Mention - Dr. Meenakshi (Thesis - IUCAA)

4. ASI AstroSat Prize - Rushikesh Sonawane (IISER TVM)  

  Honorable Mention - Gaurav Waratkar (IIT Bombay & Caltech)

5. Young Astronomer Award for the Best Publication - Eshita Banerjee (IUCAA)  

   Honorable Mention -  Amal George Cheriyan (IIST)

Hearty congratulations to all the recipients on behalf of ASI.

Best regards.
Sarita
(Secretary-ASI)