Amruth Alfred, originally from the island of Sri Lanka, is RGC Junior Research Fellow at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on uncovering the nature of Dark Matter (DM), a mysterious substance that comprises a staggering 85% of mass in our Universe, through the technique of Gravitational Lensing - the phenomenon of how mass bends light as predicted by Einstein's General Relativity. This work was featured on the front cover of Nature Astronomy, and has been rated as within the top 1% among all research articles across all journals for online attention. Amruth is the recipient of the 2023 Hong Kong Young Scientist Award which is given annually to the best PhD research in Hong Kong within Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, along with the 2023 IAU PhD Prize Honorable Mention which is given to the most remarkable PhD theses of the year.