Ajay Sharma is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University Institute of Sciences, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali. He completed his Graduation (B.Sc. Medical) from Govt. College Hoshiarpur (affiliated to Panjab University, Chandigarh), Master's Degree in Organic Chemistry (Natural product) from Punjab Agriculture University Ludhiana and his PhD (Organic Chemistry - Natural product) from SLIET (Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology, Deemed University) Punjab. He has published over 62 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters in reputed international/national journals and books. He has various honors/Fellowship/Awards to his credit i.e.

Role of honor from PAU Ludhiana, Award of INSPIRE fellowship (JRF) from DST, Award of INSPIRE fellowship (SRF) from DST, MHRD fellowship Award for Ph.D, Merit-cum-topper scholarship during M.Sc. (PAU Ludhiana). He does research in Organic Chemistry, Natural Products Chemistry, Phytochemistry, Food Chemistry. His research activities have focused on isolation and characterization of bioactive extracts from traditional medicinal plants of higher Himalayas and lower Himalayan mountain range and evaluation of their biological potential. He is also working on the green synthesis of metal nano particles using bioactive plant extracts and synthesis of carbon dots from biological sources and evaluation of their various applications.