Masaō Ashtine completed his Undergraduate and Master's degrees from York University in Canada before making his way to the UK for his PhD at the University of Cambridge. Masaō's research has always been centred around the environmental sciences, with a specific focus on renewable energy and climate change in the latter years. His current position as Lecturer in Alternative Energy is at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus in Jamaica where he is a researcher at the Department of Physics.