Dr. Mohsin Ali Raza has over 23 years of research and teaching experience in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. He earned his B.Sc. (Engg.) in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering from the University of the Punjab, Lahore, in 2000. A year later, in 2001, he began his academic career as a lecturer at the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, University of the Punjab, where he is now a professor.
Dr. Raza earned his MSc. (Engg) degree from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, in 2007. In 2008, he received the prestigious Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award, co-sponsored by EPSRC and Morgan Advanced Materials, UK, to pursue a PhD at the University of Leeds, UK. He completed his PhD in Materials Engineering in 2012.
Upon returning to the University of the Punjab, Dr. Raza established a research group at the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. His group focuses on carbon nanomaterials, graphene, polymer composites, ceramic materials, and energy materials. He has successfully led numerous industrial research projects and supervised many MPhil, MSc, and BSc (Engg.) theses. To date, he has produced three PhD graduates and is currently supervising four more.
In 2014, Dr. Raza secured a grant of PKR 17 million from HEC for the project "Synthesis of Graphene Nanoplatelets and Development of Graphene-Nanoplatelets-Based Composites for Electronic Packaging and Functional Applications," which was successfully completed. He was instrumental in establishing state-of-the-art materials characterization laboratories at the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering.
Dr. Raza has authored more than 64 research articles in peer-reviewed, impact factor journals and has presented at over 25 international conferences. His work has a cumulative impact factor exceeding 220 with citation more than 1700. He is actively involved in teaching B.Sc., MSc, and PhD courses at the institute.
Notably, Dr. Raza has been ranked among the top 2% of researchers globally, according to an evaluation by Stanford University in its 7th version.
Currently, he serves as the Director of the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering at the University of the Punjab.