Asif Qureshi is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and head of the Department of Climate Change at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad. He received a D.Sc. in environmental science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, and a B Tech from IIT Kanpur. His research group's core interest is in environmental health. They employ collaborative approaches and seek to better understand the cycling of chemicals in the environment and biotic exposure.