Akshat Rathi is an award-winning senior reporter for Bloomberg News . He is the host of Zero , a climate podcast for Bloomberg Green . He has a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Oxford, and a BTech in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai. He has worked for Quartz , The Economist and the Royal Society of Chemistry . His writings have also been published in Nature , The Hindu , Guardian , Ars Technica , and Chemistry World , among others. He lives with his wife in London, UK.