Parul Verma is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, starting in May 2024, with a strong background in Chemical Engineering. Previous experience includes serving as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, San Francisco from May 2020 to February 2024, and as a Doctoral Student at Purdue University from August 2014 to May 2020, where a PhD in Chemical Engineering was obtained. Parul also gained research experience as a Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in August 2018. Educational qualifications include a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, completed in 2014, alongside internships and research at ITC Limited and Purdue University.