In January 2022, she was elected to Indian Academy of Sciences. She has been elected member of another prestigious science society, Indian National Science Academy in October 2022. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded her the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2018. She is the first woman recipient of this Prize in the Physical Science category. In 2012, she won the biennial Buti Foundation Award, given by the Indian Physics Association to young scientists who have made outstanding contributions in the area of Theoretical Physics, Astrophysics or Biophysics. She has also been a recipient of the prestigious Ramón y Cajal fellowship in Spain and the Humboldt Research Fellowship, given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.