Dr. Kamalesh Prasad who is currently a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK was born on September 26, 1976 in the state Assam in India. At present he is working as a Principal Scientist in the Natural Products and green Chemistry Division of Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, a constituent laboratory under the aegis of CSIR, New Delhi, INDIA. He is also working as an Associate Professor in the Academy of Scientific and innovative research (AcSIR), a CSIR spinoff for human resource development and training. Dr. Prasad is the recipient of CSIR-Young Scientist Award in 2010 for his significant contribution in the research done on polysaccharides and CSIR-Raman Research Fellowship in 2016. His current research interests are bio-mass processing using new solvent systems, polysaccharides and their modification and natural product chemistry. He has published 93 research articles along with 10 book chapters. He is also co-inventor of 12 international patents and he involves in technology development and their know how transfers to entrepreneurs. He has visited graduate school of engineering, Kagoshima University, Japan, University of Leicester, UK and INSA-Lyon, France and University of Aveiro, Portugal as visiting researcher.