Vidya Dnyaneshwar Avasare is a Visiting Faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Ashoka University, He graduated B.Sc in Chemistry from Waghire College, Saswad/ Savitribai Phule Pune University and his post-graduated MSc in Organic Chemistry from Savitribai Phule Pune University. His doctoral degree PhD in Organometallics and Catalysis from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. His research areas in Catalysis (Experimental and Computational). Recently, they also started computational catalysis for materials.