Dr. Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim

Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim obtained his B.Sc. (1994), M.Sc. (1997) and PhD (1999) from Missouri S&T (formerly known as University of Missouri-Rolla, USA). He is currently served as an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He had published more than 120 journal articles, 17 book chapters and 5 academic books throughout his twenty-year career in USM including “Graphene: A Versatile Advanced Material”. Currently his Scopus h-index is 35 with 4026 citations and he had been granted with ten patents for his R&D products/processes where five of them are at an international level. More than thirty research grants (1 international grant and 5 industry grants) were secured and utilized to support his team’s research activities. He had received fourteen international awards for his research outputs and currently serve as a Guest Editor for Frontiers in Chemistry. He had supervised more than 20 graduate students. His main research areas are Lignin and Lignocellulosic Materials, Nanoparticles, Graphene & Biomaterials and Petroleum Engineering. Recently, he is busy working in the microbial fuel cells topic especially in developing a novel electrode and had published several papers in well reputed journals such as Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Cleaner Production etc. At the moment he is the pioneer on MFCs research topic in the School of Chemical Sciences, USM. He enjoys sharing his industrial experience, where he spent two and half years worked as a R&D Manager at NSE Resources Corporation Sdn Bhd., in his classes.