Varun Punnathanam was awarded Ambujas Young Resercher Award by Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers for 2016 on the basis of his M.Tech Thesis
Received the DST Travel Grant in 2012 to attend the 11th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering held at Singapore
Recipient of the NVIDIA Hardware Request grant
Financial grant from Microsoft Research Lab India Private Limited for two students to present research work at IEEE-WCCI held at Vancouver, Canada
Financial grant from IEEE for PhD Student to present research work at IEEE-WCCI held at Vancouver, Canada
Recepient of R. G. Manudhane Ph.D. Student Excellence Award: Best Ph.D. Thesis Prize in Chemical Engineering for the year 2009-2010 Awarded by the Chemical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay.
Recipient of "Dr. A.V. Rama Rao Foundation's Best Ph.D. Thesis and Research Award in Chemical Engineering / Technology" for the year 2011 from Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE).
Received the DST Travel Grant in 2008 to attend FOCAPO 2008 held at Boston, USA