Dr Md Towhid Islam

I have completed my PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK and have received the very prestigious and highly competitive Faculty of Engineering Research Scholarship for International Excellence for my PhD studies. I have worked as Research Assistant on an industrial partnership project (with Johnson Matthey) and as a Research Fellow for British Council Newton Fund Institutional Links award for 2.5 years at the same university. Currently, I am working as Post-Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA) at the University of Kent, UK funded through the newly launched and prestigious UKRI-funded scheme New Horizons. I am working on the development of a novel method to functionalise glasses for a range of applications in fields such as energy, information technology and communications, defence, consumer electronics, transportation, and medicine. Previously, I have developed highly porous phosphate-based glass microspheres (can be manufactured to mimic the composition of inorganic bone), hydroxyapatite microspheres from borate-based glass (hydroxyapatite is the major inorganic constituent of bone) and silicate-based glass microsphere (e.g. 45S5 and S53P4) for biomedical applications at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Nanomaterials, Glass-ceramics, Biomaterials, Polymer composites