Professor Amita Das of the Institute for Plasma Research has been elected  Fellow of  Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore in the year 2011 under the section "Physics". Her interests include Plasma Physics, Turbulence and Electron Magnetohydrodynamics.

She has also been elected a fellow of the Gujarat Science Academy this year.

Professor Avinash Khare of the Department of Physics, Delhi University has been elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi in the year 2011.

Ms. Bharathi Magesh of Institute For Plasma Research was awarded the Best Poster award for her presentation "Unfolding the signatures of the fast Hydrogen and Nitrogen atoms  near cathode in an abnormal glow discharge" at the ICTP-IOP-Emerging Nations Science Foundation (ENSF) at ICTP,Trieste,Italy. Her co-authors were Suraj Sinha (Pondicherry University) and S. Mukherji (FCIPT, Gandhinagar).