Prof. Prashant Kumar

Prof. Prashant Kumar is an Associate Dean (International) at the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, the Chair of Air Quality and Health, and the founding Director of the Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) at the University of Surrey, UK. He is also the founder of the successfully running Guildford Living Lab, head of the GCARE’s Air Quality Laboratory, an Adjunct Professor at the School of Engineering at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (since March 2018), and a Guest Professor at Southeast University, China (since June 2021). He was the Deputy Director of Research at the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering from 2018 to 2021. He received his PhD (Engineering) from the University of Cambridge after winning a Cambridge–Nehru Scholarship and an Overseas Research Scholarship Award and earned his MTech (Environmental Engineering and Management) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, with CGPA 9.8/10 and rank 1. Prior to his PhD, he worked at a research institute and in the industrial sector for about 8 years. After his PhD, he joined the University of Surrey as a Lecturer (2009–2012) and subsequently worked as a Senior Lecturer (2012–2015), Reader (2015–2017) and Professor (2017–). He was awarded the University of Surrey's Vice-Chancellors' Award for his outstanding research in 2017.