About Sirish
Sirish Subash is a young innovator whose lifelong curiosity about the natural world drives solutions for global challenges. After learning about climate change, he wrote Carbon Block Puzzle (2021), an accessible guide that demystifies its causes and solutions, and delivered community talks to inspire action. During COVID-19, he delved into biochemistry, leading to Biochemistry the Fun Way (2023), a graphic novel to spark biochemistry interest.
In October 2024, he won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge and America’s Top Young Scientist for PestiSCAND, a handheld pesticide residue detector empowering consumers to quickly identify harmful residues on produce. Building on that success, he developed PlastiSeek, a handheld spectrophotometry-based detector that in under three seconds identifies PET, PA, PP, and HDPE microplastics in water with over 91% accuracy—making day-to-day, affordable testing practical.
Through these projects, Sirish has honed rigorous research methods, innovative problem-solving, and clear science communication. He continues refining his detectors, pursuing new inventions, collaborating with peers, and using scientific innovation as a force for positive change.
Aspen Ideas: Health
I’m incredibly excited to share that I’ll be speaking during the closing session of Aspen Ideas: Health 2025 in Aspen, Colorado!
This year’s closing conversations will reflect on the Aspen Institute’s 75-year legacy and its core belief that the mind, body, and spirit are deeply connected. We’ll explore how these elements shape individual well-being and contribute to a healthier, more resilient society. It’s a meaningful opportunity to think about health in its fullest sense—not just as science or policy, but as a shared human experience that touches every part of life.
Aspen Ideas: Health brings together an inspiring community of thinkers, innovators, and leaders, and I’m honored to be part of the dialogue. I look forward to sharing the stage, learning from others, and offering my perspective on how curiosity and action can create real impact—especially when it starts early.
If you’re attending in person, I’d love to see you there. If you can’t make it, a recording will be available online.
Biochemistry The Fun Way!
My latest book, Biochemistry The Fun Way, will take you on an adventure through the wonderful world of biochemistry!
It all starts when Burger Bob arrives at his cousin SciKid’s lab, he isn’t very interested in SciKid’s biochemistry business. However, biochemistry turns out to be much more interesting than Burger Bob thinks. Biochemistry studies all the weird and wonderful machines in the human body. Join Burger Bob, SciKid, and his robot assistant QBIT on their journey through the world of biochemistry! They will take you from the basics to the real-world applications. Biochemistry has never been this fun!
Don’t miss out on this amazing graphic novel! Buy it now wherever you get your books! It is available at Amazon, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, and more.
Carbon Block Puzzle
Whether you are one of those people who has heard about climate
change in the news and doesn’t know what it is or if you know the basics
of climate change but want to know more, Carbon Block Puzzle can help
you. Climate change is a major issue and it’s hard to be sure what is fact
and what is fiction. Carbon Block Puzzle is a direct and comprehensive
way to grasp the foundations of climate change. Climate change is
happening right now, unless more people learn more about climate
change the darkest hours of climate change could come soon. Carbon
Block Puzzle elucidates to readers on climate change and how to impede
it. Only if fact triumphs, will we have a chance at stopping climate
change and winning this game of Carbon Block Puzzle. Carbon Block Puzzle encourages everyone to help stop climate change alongside teaching them about it.
Buy it now wherever you get your books! It is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and more.
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