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Dr. Ahmad Ahsan Nawaz
Dr. Ahmad Ahsan Nawaz held the position of Senior Scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany, prior to coming to Pakistan. In 2015, Dr. Nawaz received Marie-Curie fellowship at TU Dresden, Germany, where he completed his post-doctoral research. In 2009, he was granted a Fulbright scholarship to pursue his Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University in the United States. He received best research dissertation award for Ph.D research. To date. Dr. Nawaz has a publication record, with over 32 research articles published in international journals, along with 9 conference proceedings and 3 U.S. patents. His research has garnered attention from U.S. News, local U.S. newspapers, and Penn State News, and his articles have been cited over 2000 times in esteemed international research publications. Earlier, he was awarded the European Union's Erasmus Mundus scholarship to pursue a double degree masters program from 2007 to 2009, with the first year at the Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France, and the second year at Augsburg University, Germany. Dr. Nawaz obtained his bachelor's degree in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute (GIKI) of Engineering Science and Technology, where he was awarded a gold medal by the president of Pakistan in recognition of his exceptional academic performance in 2006.