Sandeep Verma is an Indian bioorganic chemist and a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK). At IITK, he heads his own group and holds the Shri Deva Raj Endowed Chair position. He is known for his studies on ordered peptide assemblies and metal mediated systems. Verma is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2010, for his contributions to the chemical sciences.