Rate My Professor Nazmul Karim

Professor Nazmul Karim holds the position of Professor of Sustainable Future Textiles in the Department of Fashion and Textiles at the University of Southampton. He obtained his PhD in 2015 and MSc by Research in 2011 from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, following his Bachelor’s degree from Bangladesh University of Textiles in 2008. His career trajectory includes serving as Professor of Advanced Textiles at Nottingham Trent University from 2023 to 2024. Previously, as Associate Professor at the Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, from 2019 to 2023, he established the Graphene Applications Laboratory and spearheaded the research theme 'New Materials: Towards Sustainable Technologies.' From 2015 to 2019, he conducted pioneering research on graphene-based wearable electronic textiles and sustainable composites at the National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester, in collaboration with Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Kostya S. Novoselov. Earlier, he worked in industry at BASF from 2008 to 2010.

Professor Karim's research focuses on sustainable materials for future textiles, wearable electronic textiles, smart and sustainable fibre-reinforced composites, the application of graphene and other 2D materials in textiles, and digital textile printing. He has published extensively, with key recent works including 'Inkjet-printed 2D heterostructures for smart textile micro-supercapacitors' (Advanced Functional Materials, 2024), 'Sustainable, wearable, and eco-friendly electronic textiles' (Energy and Environmental Materials, 2024), 'Closed-loop recycling of wearable electronic textiles' (Small, 2024), 'Advances in printed electronic textiles' (Advanced Science, 2024), 'Advances in smart photovoltaic textiles' (ACS Nano, 2024), 'Textile-based triboelectric nanogenerators integrated with 2D materials' (EcoMat, 2024), and 'High-performance stretchable strain sensors based on auxetic fabrics for human motion detection' (ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2024). His research has achieved over 5,700 citations on Google Scholar, underscoring his substantial impact in the fields of future textiles and wearable electronics.