Dr. Akif Zeb has a PhD from USTC. He has done Masters in Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry as well as Materials and Surface Engineering from NUST and QAU, Pakistan with 8 years of experience as a Faculty Member in National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan. He has also got experience in pharmaceutical industry as research and development and quality control chemist. His research interests are focused on design and development of nanomaterials for energy, environment, catalysis and diagnostics fields. He has an extensive research experience in synthesis and characterisation of nanomaterials and their applications in electrochemical, analytical, photocatalysis, catalysis and analytical chemistry fields with more than 20 SCI publications in journals of repute such as ACS Nano, Nanoscale, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Dalton Transactions, Catalysis Science and Technology, Langmuir, Journal of Physical Chemistry C and Electrochemica Acta.