About
Dr. Nazmul Karim is a Professor of Sustainable Future Textiles at the Department of Fashion and Textiles. Previously, he was a Professor of Advanced Textiles at Nottingham Trent University, UK (2023-24), and an Associate Professor at the Centre for Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK (2019-23), where he led the establishment of the brand-new 'Graphene Applications Laboratory' and the new research theme 'New Materials: Towards Sustainable Technologies.' Before that, Prof Karim pioneered several graphene-based wearable electronic textiles (e-textiles) and sustainable composites researches at the National Graphene Institute (NGI) of the University of Manchester (UK) with Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Kostya S Novoselov (2015-19). He completed funded PhD (2015) and MSc by Research (2011) degrees at the University of Manchester (UK).
Prof Karim also worked for BASF (2008-10), the world-leading chemical company, after graduating from Bangladesh University of Textiles (BUTex) in 2008. He has academic and industry experiences in fundamental research, innovation, and entrepreneurship, with a passion for getting research out of the lab into real-world applications.