Prof. Asim Bhaumik is presently working as a Senior Professor in the School of Materials Sciences at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the CSIR–National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, in 1997. He was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at The University of Tokyo during 1997–1999. Then, he was Associate Researcher at Toyota Central R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan during 1999–2001. He has international collaboration research projects with scientists from Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Russia, Taiwan and Egypt. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of several journals and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). His area of research interest includes designing novel porous COFs, POPs, MOFs, and functionalized mesoporous materials for energy and environmental applications, such as H2/CO2 storage, the adsorptive removal of heavy metals Hg/As/Cd/Pb from contaminated water resources, electrocatalysis for electrochemical water splitting, photocatalysis, heterogeneous catalysis for CO2 fixation reactions, biomass conversions and the synthesis of organic fine chemicals. Prof. Bhaumik has published over 525 original research articles with more than 27,000 citations.