Debayan Pakrashi

 

 

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Debayan Pakrashi

Associate Professor

Department of Economic Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Office: Room 607, Faculty Building

Ph: 0512-259-6107;

Email: pakrashi@iitk.ac.in

Skype: debayan.pakrashi

AWARDS

Academic Honours and Awards:

  • Awarded the J.J.Goodwin Memorial Prize and Scholarship, 2006.

  • Awarded the Hrishikesh Chattopadhyay and Jajnaseni Memorial Prize, 2006.

  • Awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Award, 2006.

  • Awarded the Swami Vivekananda Award, 2006.

  • Awarded the Indian Culture Award, 2005, 2006.

  • Awarded the Ford Foundation Scholarship, 2007 (declined).

  • Awarded the Merit Scholarship, 2006-2008.

  • Awarded the Graduate Research Scholarship, 2008-2009.

  • Awarded the Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 2008-2009.

  • Awarded the Research Summer Scholarship, 2009.

  • Awarded the Australian Research Council Discovery PhD Scholarship, 2010-2013.

  • Awarded the University of Queensland International Scholarship, 2010-2013.

  • Awarded the Graduate School International Travel Award, 2013.

  • Awarded the position of Senior Research Officer at the School of Population Health, University of Queensland, 2013 (declined).

  • Awarded the University of Stirling Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. 2014-2017.

  • Awarded the M. N. Murthy Excellence Fund, 2014.

  • Awarded the Institute Fellowship from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. 2014-2017.

  • Awarded the University of Queensland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. January 2015- December 2017 (declined).

  • Awarded the 2014 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Theses, 2015 for the best Thesis from the University of Queensland, Australia.

  • Awarded the Australian Alumni Excellence Award India under Young Achiever Category, 2015.

  • Awarded letter of Appreciation from the Director of IITK for teaching, 2015 for Introduction to Economics (large class category).

  • Awarded Best Surge Poster Award 2016 for the project “Vulnerability of Indian widows” with Mr Ayush Agrawal.

  • Awarded letter of Appreciation from the Director of IITK for teaching, 2016 for Introduction to Economics (large class category).

  • Awarded the PK Kelkar Class of 1979 Research Fellowship for Outstanding Young Faculty by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur from 1st May 2017-30th April 2020.

  • Awarded the Prof. M. J. Manohar Rao Award 2016, awarded to young scholars under the age of 35 from The Indian Econometric Society in 2018.

  • Awarded letter of Appreciation from the Director of IITK for teaching, 2019 for Behavioural & Experimental Economics (large class category).

  • Awarded letter of Appreciation from the Director of IITK for teaching, 2019 for Introduction to Economics (large class category).

  • The Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Mathematical Research Impact Centric Support (MATRICS) grant scheme under Quantitative Social Sciences (QSS), 2020-23.