Prof. Asase is the Head of the Department of Plant and Environmental Biology at the University of Ghana. He was awarded both his BSc and PhD degrees in Botany from the University of Ghana in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He started his career as a Lecturer in the then Department of Botany at the University of Ghana in 2005. By dint of hard work, he rose through the ranks to the grade of Professor in the year 2020. He also holds an Adjunct Researcher position at the Biodiversity Institute in the University of Kansas. He was previously an academic visitor at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Centre for Agri-Environmental Research (CAER) at University of Reading in the United Kingdom.

Prof. Asase has published extensively and his contributions to scientific knowledge have been disseminated in many internationally reputed journals. He has also attended many national and international conferences and workshops where he has disseminated the findings of his research work. Some of the major funders of his research projects are the JRS Biodiversity Foundation (USA) and Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF; Denmark). He received the prestigious UNESCO Man and Biosphere (MAB) Programme Young Scientist Award in 2010.

Prof. Asase has also served on various committees and boards at the University of Ghana as well as on several national and international committees. He is also a member of several professional societies and serves as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Herbal Medicine. He is the manager of the Ghana node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and a member of the advisory board of the Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum (BITC II). He is also a regular reviewer for many national and international journals.

He is currently the Executive Director of the Centre for Plant Medicine Research.