Prof. Ashish Kumar teaches Chemistry and is the Dean of the Dept. of Science and Technology at Nalanda College of Engineering (NCE), a government-funded engineering college affiliated to Bihar Engineering University. Prior to these appointments, he taught Chemistry at Lovely Professional University (Phagwara, India), which he had joined in 2008. He is a prolific author and most of his research work is focused on corrosion inhibition, materials chemistry, thermodynamics, studies of molecular interaction in liquid medium, and homogenous catalysis. Mr. Abhinay Thakur received an MSc in Chemistry from Maharaja Agrasen University (Baddi, India) in 2018. He has since enrolled at Lovely Professional University, pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Prof.

Ashish Kumar. He is a passionate researcher and his work focuses on corrosion inhibition, materials chemistry and applied green chemistry technologies, quantum chemistry, computational analysis, thermodynamics, and studies of molecular interaction in liquid medium.