Summary

Prof. Ir Dr Amir Azam KHAN is presently working as Principal and Dean at the School of chemical and Materials Engineering (SCME), NUST. He has extensively worked on the development and characterization of nitride ceramics and ceramic based composites in the AlN/Mo system, as well as low pressure plasma spraying of refractory films (W, Mo) over metallic and ceramic substrates. After completing his Doctorate in 1995, his services were acquired by Université de Limoges, France, to do research for the porcelain industry. He produced and characterized Ag films deposited over porcelain substrates with an objective to use these films for the induction heating of porcelain. He was awarded Best Young Scientist Award in 2001 by the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He was also bestowed with Palmes Académiques by the French Government for his invaluable services in education and research. He was invited by the Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany, as an invited researcher and speaker in 2001. He has supervised large number of PhD and Master students and has published more than 100 research articles in International Journals, Conferences and Colloquia. He has also authored three books. He is also on the Expert Panel of King Fahad University, Saudi Arabia. He is Specialty reviewer to the following Journals: • Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Elsevier UK • Surface Engineering, Maney Publishers UK • Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Elsevier UK • Journal of the American Ceramic Society, JACerS, WILEY, USA • Ceramics International, Elsevier UK • Tribology, Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces, Taylor and Francis, UK • Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, WILEY, USA • Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Elsevier, UK • Materials Chemistry and Physics, Elsevier, UK • Oriental Journal of Chemistry, India • Polymer Composites, WILEY, USA • Surface Review and Letters, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore • International Journal of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Springer, USA • Current Organocatalysis, Bentham Science, Netherlands • Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, ASM, USA He is a Professional Engineer with Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), Chartered Engineer (UK), Fellow Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK) and EUR ING (Brussels). His present areas of research include Renewable Energy Materials, Surface Engineering of Ceramics, Polymers and Composites, Synthesis of Nano Powders, Non Destructive and Destructive Characterization/Testing of Materials.

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