Dr. Asif Shahzad is a Research Fellow at the Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia. His research expertise spans advanced material development, nanotechnology, and environmental remediation, particularly focusing on emerging contaminants such as heavy metals, PFAS, and nanoplastics removal and resource recovery.
He completed his PhD in Environmental Engineering at Kyungpook National University (KNU), South Korea, where he pioneered work on MXene-based materials for heavy metal removal. Following his PhD, he served as an Assistant Professor at Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea, where he focused on the synthesis of advanced MXene materials and the photocatalytic degradation of pharmaceuticals and PFAS contaminants.
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Dr. Asif Shahzad is a Research Fellow at the Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia. His research expertise spans advanced material development, nanotechnology, and environmental remediation, particularly focusing on emerging contaminants such as heavy metals, PFAS, and nanoplastics removal and resource recovery.
He completed his PhD in Environmental Engineering at Kyungpook National University (KNU), South Korea, where he pioneered work on MXene-based materials for heavy metal removal. Following his PhD, he served as an Assistant Professor at Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea, where he focused on the synthesis of advanced MXene materials and the photocatalytic degradation of pharmaceuticals and PFAS contaminants.
Dr. Shahzad further expanded his research experience as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Uppsala University, Sweden, where he designed perovskite oxides and spinel ferrite nanomaterials with optimized magnetic properties for environmental applications.
Before joining UniSA, he also worked at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia, contributing to ARC Linkage Projects related to subnano materials for energy storage devices and PFAS quantification in battery systems.
Currently, Dr. Shahzad's research at UniSA focuses on the development of highly ordered graphite (HOG) and MXene composites through novel techniques for scalable in-situ remediation of acid mine drainage (AMD), metal recovery, and emerging pollutants like PFAS and nanoplastics. His work contributes significantly to advancing sustainable technologies and the circular economy.