Mohammad Islam

Mohammad F. Islam is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Lehigh University, focusing on aggregation and adsorption behavior of polyelectrolytes. He then moved to the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral fellow. There he worked on colloidal systems and carbon nanotubes. Since joining Carnegie Mellon, Islam has received the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Kavli Frontiers Fellowship, and the College of Engineering George Tallman Ladd Research Award.