Muhammad Umer Iqbal

In 2020, I earned my degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the Institute of Space Technology (IST), Islamabad, where I completed my thesis on thermoelectric functional ceramic oxides. I then worked for two years as a graduate research assistant on the project “Hybrid Structured Thermoelectric Materials for Energy-Harvesting, Cooling, and Biomedical Applications.” During my master’s studies, I also published three peer-reviewed research articles in the field of functional and energy materials.

This experience deepened my interest in clean-energy research and strongly motivates my prospective PhD on clean hydrogen synthesis in Funglass. During the ongoing period, I learn science related to crystalline and amorphous metal-organic frameworks and also presented my research at EuropaCat 2023 and 98. Glass Technology HVG-DGG 2025 international conferences.

Dissertation topic: Novel Binary Semiconductor-Based Materials for Sustainable and Clean Energy: from Synthesis to H2 Generation

Supervisor: Dr. José Joaquín Velázquez García

Co-supervisor: Prof. Lothar Wondraczek (Otto-Schott Institute, Jena)

Department: Department of Functional Materials

Beginning of study: 5 March 2022

Date of dissertation exam: 31 August 2026

List of publications:

2025

  • Synergistic Effects of Ti3C2 MXene and ZIF-8 for Efficient Photocatalytic Degradation of Tetracycline in Wastewater, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2025.118925
  • Enhanced thermoelectric performance of yttrium-doped ZnO ceramics via secondary phase formation and conventional sintering, DOI: 10.1039/D5RA03749B
  • Thermally evaporated Cu2− xSe thin films embedded with PbSe nanoinclusions: a multiphase system for thermoelectric applications, DOI: 10.1039/D5RA03803K

2023

2021

Conference Presentation and Paper:

  • 2025: 98. Glass Technology HVG-DGG, May, Goslar, Germany
  • 2023: Europa Cat, August, Prague, Czechia

Processing and properties of advanced ceramics and glasses, October 25-27, 2023, Stará Lesná, Slovakia

Participation in projects:

Hybrid Structured Thermoelectric Materials for Energy-harvesting, Cooling, and Biomedical Applications

Other professional activities:

  • 2023-2024: Research training stay at Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
  • 2019-2021: Graduate Research Assistant- Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 2016-2017: Production Engineer- Amreli Steels Limited, Karachi, Pakistan

Inorganic technologies and materials I and Inorganic technologies and materials II

Modules:

Experimental mechanics, Collodial systems: cheracterization and utilization

Academic year 2024/25

Inorganic technologies and materials I

Inorganic technologies and materials II

Muhammad Umer Iqbal
Muhammad Umer Iqbal
PhD student

E-mail: muhammad.iqbal@tnuni.sk
Tel.: +421 32 7400 515
Office: n. 405