Awarded the PhD Research Fellowship by UGC India (January 2010-January 2015).
3rd Best Poster Award during the 1st DCS Symposium on Chemistry at IISER-K, India 2010.
Best ACS Poster Award during the 5th International Symposium on Advanced Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SABIC-2017), Kolkata, India, 2017.
Selected as SBIC Young Presenters in the 5th International Symposium on Advanced Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SABIC-2017), Kolkata, India, 2017.
Best Presentation Award during the 5th DCS Symposium on Chemistry at IISER-K, India, 2017.
IOSRD Achievement Award 2017, IOSRD Award Conference 2017, 29th-30th December 2017, Avadi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600065, India.
Awarded Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Overseas Postdoctoral Fellowship 2017, supported by the Government of India.
Chancellor’s Grant for Post-Doctoral Studies (2025-2026) at Rutgers University-Camden, Department of Chemistry, New Jersey, USA.

S. C. Sau, Interstellar Molecules for Homogeneous Catalysis. “1st DCS Symposium on Chemistry at IISER-K”, Mohanpur, India. 30-31st December 2010. (3rd Best Poster Award).
S. C. Sau, Living Catalyst for Room Temperature Activation of Aryl Chlorides in Suzuki–Miyaura Cross Coupling. “International Symposium on Recent Trends of Research in Chemistry at Midnapore College”, West Bengal, India, 31st October and 1st November 2011. (Poster Presentation) (Best Poster Award).
S. C. Sau, Living Catalyst for Room Temperature Activation of Aryl Chlorides in Suzuki–Miyaura Cross Coupling. “Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (MTIC-XIV)”, Hyderabad, India. 10-13th December 2011.
S. C. Sau, Abnormal N-Heterocyclic Carbene Copper (I) Complex: Applications Spanning from Catalysis to Cytotoxic Effect on Cancer Cells. “Frontiers in Modern Biology 2012 at IISER-Kolkata”, Mohanpur, India. 4-5th February 2012.
S. C. Sau, Abnormal N-Heterocyclic Carbene: An Excellent Building Block to Design Homogeneous Catalyst. “Indo-French Symposium”, NISER-Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India, 24-26th February 2014.
S. C. Sau, Metal-Free Reduction of CO2 to Methanol under Ambient Conditions. “5th International Symposium on Advanced Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SABIC 2017)” Kolkata, India, 7-11th January 2017. (Best ACS Poster Award).
Frontiers in Inorganic Chemistry: Catalytic and Biomedical Applications Symposium (3rd January 2020 at IISER-Kolkata) BRICS Symposium.

S. C. Sau, Integrating Organometallic Catalysis with Organocatalysis: A Consecutive Catalytic Approach in One-Pot. “2nd DCS Symposium on Chemistry at IISER-K”, Mohanpur, India. 7th November 2012.
S. C. Sau, Metal-Free Reduction of CO2 to Methanol under Ambient Conditions. “5th International Symposium on Advanced Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SABIC 2017)”, Kolkata, India, 7-11th January 2017. (SBIC Young Presenters).
S. C. Sau, Catalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide into Methanol Under Ambient Conditions. “5th DCS Symposium on Chemistry at IISER-K”, Mohanpur, India. 18th November 2017. (Best Presentation Award).