Member; National Curriculum Review Committee (HEC; Pakistan) (2024)
Patent: JP7401938B Plant environmental stress tolerance improver (2023)
RIKEN EIHO Award Discovery and application of enhanced abiotic stress tolerance in plants using ethanol (2024)
Young Scientist Award (日本土壌肥料学会奨励賞) by the Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (2013)
FASEBUSA Poster Award, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA (2008)
Several Research Articles featured by news websites such as the front page of Mainichi (a leading Japanese Newspaper, 2006), CNN, BBC, Phys.org, MSN, Yahoo, etc.
RIKEN Foreign Postdoctoral Fellowship (FPR) (2013-2016)
Travel Grant for Young Scientists by Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (2012)
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship at “The University of Tokyo”, Japan (2007-2009)
MEXT Scholarship for PhD at The University of Tokyo, Japan (2003-2007)
Conducted the first-ever field experiment of genetically modified plants in Pakistan (2000-2002)
M. Phil. Research Scholarship. National Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. (2000-2002)
2nd position in the Department B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture (Plant Breeding &Genetics) (1999)
B.Sc. (Hons) Merit Scholarship. University of Agriculture Faisalabad Research Publications (1996-1999)