SERB fellowship for GNDU faculty

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, March16

The Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), New Delhi, has awarded a prestigious SERB-POWER fellowship for three years to Dr Vandana Bhalla of Department of Chemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University. Dr Vandana is among the first persons to get this fellowship of SERB.

Dr Vandana will get a grant of Rs 10 lakh per year and a personal monthly fellowship of Rs 15000. Dr Vandana Bhalla works in the area of supramolecular chemistry and material chemistry. She has published 193 research papers in international journals of high impact factor. The h-index of her publications is 47 with nearly six thousand citations. Dr Vandana has delivered many invited talks/lectures in different national and international conferences in India and abroad.

The SERB-Power fellowship has been started with an aim to promote opportunities for women in the field of exploratory research. Dr. Vandana Bhalla said that she was elated at being awarded the fellowship and that she owes this achievement to Guru Nanak Dev University and her research team.