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Professor Nazmul Karim

Professor Nazmul Karim

 PhD
Professor

Research interests

  • Prof Karim’s research interests lie in the area of new advanced materials (e.g., graphene, other 2D materials) and sustainable digital technologies (e.g., inkjet printing), aimed at developing future textiles for smart and sustainable wearable e-textiles, eco-friendly clothing, and natural fibre-reinforced composites applications.
  • Prof Karim has led/co-led several research breakthroughs, including the first fully inkjet-printed graphene e-textiles, highly scalable methods to produce graphene textiles and 2D materials’ heterostructure-based textiles, and sustainable and multifunctional fibre-reinforced composites.

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Email: Nazmul.Karim@southampton.ac.uk

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About

Dr. Nazmul Karim is a Professor of Sustainable Fashion and 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 led graphene-based wearable electronic textiles (e-textiles) research at the National Graphene Institute (NGI) of the University of Manchester (UK) with Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Kostya S Novoselov (2015-19). He completed his PhD (2015) and MSc (2011) 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.

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