Dr. Nishith Verma is Chevron Corporation Chair Professor of chemical engineering at IIT Kanpur (India). He pursued B.Tech. in chemical engineering (1982-86) from IIT Kharagpur (India) and Ph.D. in chemical engineering (1991-95) from the University of Arizona, Tuscon (USA). Prof. Verma worked as Process Engineer (1995-97) at BOC Gases (now Linde Engineering), NJ (USA), before joining IIT Kanpur as Assistant Professor. His research interests include environmental remediation techniques, nanomaterials, catalysts, sensors, and lattice Boltzmann method-based modeling. Prof. Verma is Recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship and Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship. He was Head, chemical engineering department, 2011–13, and Coordinator, Center for Environmental Science and Engineering, 2011–13, both at IIT Kanpur.