Edidiong Asuquo undertook an MSc in Catalysis at the Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool in 2007 with research focus on heterogeneous catalysis for glycerol utilization in the production of chemical intermediates under the supervision of Prof. Ivan Kozhevnikov. He completed his PhD at the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester in 2016. His research was on adsorption of heavy metals from wastewater using adsorbents obtained from hydrothermal carbonised, pyrolysed and chemically activated biomass feedstocks with Prof. Alastair Martin.

In 2014, he joined the Open Innovation Hub for Antimicrobial Materials in the Surface Science Research Centre, University of Liverpool, led by Prof. Rasmita Raval as a Research Innovator working an industrial collaboration project sponsored by Innovate UK with Industrial and Academic Partners (University of Liverpool, International Paints (AkzoNobel), Revolymer & University of Newcastle).

In 2018, he joined the Organic Materials Innovation Centre (OMIC) in the School of Chemistry, University of Manchester as a PDRA in Prof. Peter Budd’s research group working on an EPSRC project on EPSRC funded grant- Organic Mixed Matrix Membrane Technologies (ORGMEMT) for Post Combustion CO₂ capture in collaboration with Prof Andrew Cooper FRS -University of Liverpool. This was focused on polymeric mixed matrix membranes for gas separation applications.

In 2019, he moved to the Advanced Nanomaterials Group in the School of Materials, University of Manchester as a PDRA working on graphene-polymeric thermal conductive composites for lighting applications in an EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) grant with Dr Mark Bissett and Prof. Ian Kinloch. Thereafter he worked within the Advanced Nanomaterials Group in the School of Materials on a University of Manchester innovation Factory (UMIF) funded project to commercialise and scale-up the production of 2D materials (graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (MoS₂ and WS₂) based polymeric membranes for water purification applications with Dr Mark Bissett and Prof. Robert Dryfe.

He then moved to the Catalysis and Porous Materials Research Group as PDRA with Prof. Arthur Garforth and Prof. Chris Hardacre in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Manchester in 2021 and his current project is on polymer waste recycling with Industrial Partners. He is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), associate member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).