Along with Professor Yuval Gefen (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) and Professor Ross Murch (Hong Kong Institute of Technology), Varinder is one of only three Foreign Fellows to be admitted for 2024 across the fields of science, engineering, and medicine. In addition, 80 National Fellows were also elected.

Varinder writes, “To be a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India is a truly great honour, which my parents and their forefathers would be exceptionally proud of, with us all having grown up in small villages in India.

"The long and circuitous path had many dead ends but my parents migration to the UK and the educational opportunities it offered, transformed our family and I will be forever grateful.”

Established in 1930, the National Academy of Sciences is the oldest science academy in India.