Prashant Kumar is a Professor & Chair in Air Quality and Health, founding Director of Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE; www.surrey.ac.uk/gcare), and Associate Dean (International), at the University of Surrey, UK; an Adjunct Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; and a Guest Professor at the Southeast University, China.

His fundamental and application-oriented crossdisciplinarity research is focused on the interfaces of clean air engineering, human health and smart/sustainable living in cities/megacities. His current research projects are focused in broad multidisciplinary areas of air pollution monitoring/modelling, low-cost sensing, nature-based solutions, climate change mitigation and developing innovative technological and passive (e.g. green infrastructure) solutions for air pollution exposure control for both developing and developed world.

He has published >265 journal articles, with about the same number of conference articles, presentations and reports, attracting >12,200 citations with a h-index of 56 and an i10-index of 197. He has secured >9M of individual research funding from RCUK, international bodies, charities and industry. He serves editorial board of several journals and reviews/advises as a panel member many funding agencies worldwide.