Md. Akhtaruzzaman

Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman is a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Islamic University of Madinah. After receiving his BSc and MSc in Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from The University of Dhaka, Bangaldesh he has been awarded the Japanese Government’s Monbukagakusho Scholarship, and joined at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) in Okazaki, Japan where he obtained his PhD degree in March 2003.. He was a recipient of the Japan Society for Promotion and Science (JSPS) fellowship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. His areas of expertise are the rational design of organic/inorganic semiconductors, Nano-materials for various applications, including Dye-sensitized Solar cells, Perovskite solar cell, Graphene/Quatum dots-based Hybrid solar cells, Bulk-heterojunction Solar cells, Organic Thin-Film Transistors, Sensor, Flexible Memory Devices, Nano-electronics and Electroluminescence devices, and published over 150 papers, reviews in peer-reviewed journals, and patents, and book chapters. He received the best faculty award from the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) at UKM during 2019-2022. He supervised more than 50 PhD and Master Thesis. Dr. Akhtar is involved in many research projects (local and international) as a principal investigator and a co-principal investigator.