Dr. R. Sindhu
- Listed among top 2% Scientists of the world for the year 2019 and 2020 (Study conducted by Stanford University, USA).
- National award from BRSI, Professor Chincholkar Memorial Award for the year 2020 for outstanding contributions in the area of Bioenergy (First women scientist to receive this award).
- International award from Journal of Environmental Management (Elsevier) for most downloaded article for the year 2021 for Review Papers.
- Impactful Research Award from Bioresource Technology (Elsevier) for the year 2018 for highest cited article (200 citations in a single year)
- The BIORESTEC 2018 – Best Poster Award, Sitges, Spain
- Best Oral Presentation Award – SEEC 2018, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore