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Professor

Shaheer Akhtar

Visiting Professor

Engineering

Orcid identifier0000-0001-7698-2619
  • Visiting Professor
    Engineering

BIO

Professor M. Shaheer Akhtar is recently joined as a visiting professor in the Department of Engineering at La Trobe University. He completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, 2008, from Jeonbuk National University, Republic of Korea. Presently, he is working as a full-time professor in the Graduate School of Integrated Energy-AI at Jeonbuk National University, Republic of Korea.

His research interests include the photo-electrochemical characterizations of thin film semiconductor nanomaterials, composite materials, polymer based solid-state films, solid polymer electrolytes and electrode materials for hybrid organic-inorganic solar cells, small-molecule-based organic solar cells, and energy storage devices.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor
    Jeonbuk National University, Graduate School of Energy-AI, Jeonju, South Korea1 Oct 2021 - present
  • Associate Professor
    Jeonbuk National University, New and Renewable Energy Materials Development Center (NewREC), Jeonju, South Korea1 Oct 2014 - 30 Sep 2021
  • Assistant Professor
    Jeonbuk National University, New and Renewable Energy Materials Development Center (NewREC), Jeonju, South Korea3 May 2010 - 30 Sep 2014

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Post Doctoral Fellow
    Jeonbuk National University, School of Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering, Jeonju, South Korea2 Mar 2009 - 30 Apr 2010
  • Post Doctoral Fellow
    Jeonbuk National University, Semiconductor Physics Research Center (SPRC), Jeonju, South Korea1 Apr 2008 - 27 Feb 2009

DEGREES

  • PHD
    Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea1 Sep 2004 - 22 Feb 2008
  • M.Sc. in Chemistry
    Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India3 Jul 2000 - 28 Jun 2002
  • B.Sc. in Chemistry
    Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India1 Jul 1997 - 29 Jun 2000

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Hindi
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Korean
    Can read and speak
  • Urdu
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • Arabic
    Can read