Prof. Uma Ramakrishnan - Awards and Recognition
2024: Obaid Siddiqui award, Sastra University, Elected International Honorary member, AAA&S
2023: DBT Wellcome Trust India Alliance, Senior Investigator Award Renewal; Molecular Ecology Prize; featured in "Women in the Wild: stories of India's most brilliant wildlife biologists",Juggernaut.
2021: Beacon Award, Society for Conservation Biology; Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences,Kalpana Chawla Young Woman Scientist Award, Karnataka State
2020: Fellow, Indian National Science Academy; Homi Bhabha award for Science Education
2019: Featured in '31 fantastic adventures in science' a book on Indian women scientists
2018: Featured in Indian Women in Science Calendar
2017-2022: DBT Wellcome Trust India Alliance, Senior Investigator Award
2016-: International Core Faculty, Program in Conservation Genomics, Stanford University
2016: Parker Gentry Conservation award; Fulbright Fellow
2015: Bass Fellow, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
2014: WIRED Innovation Fellow (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wired-innovation-fellows)
2013: INK Fellow (http://inktalks.com/fellows/about)
2012: Outstanding Scientist Award, Department of Atomic Energy
2011: Senior Research Visiting Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore
2010-2015: Ramanujan Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
2010-2013: Member, National Board for Wildlife, Government of India
2006: Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, US National Academy of Sciences
2005: Research Fellow, Wildlife Conservation Society, India program
1994- 1996: MSc fellowship from the Department of Biotechnology, India