Asheesh Kumar is a scientist (Ramanujan Fellow) at CSIR—Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun and an assistant professor at AcSIR (Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research). He is in the list of world’s top 2% scientists released by Stanford in 2022 and associate member of Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC). He has worked as a senior research associate at the University of Western Australia, National University of Singapore, Singapore and as a visiting scientist at the CSIRO, Western Australia. He received his MTech degree and PhD degree at IIT, Roorkee, India and CSIR—National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, respectively. His broad research focus is on energy, environment and sustainability.