Md. Khaja Nazeeruddin elected RSC fellow and EURASC member
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has elected Prof. Nazeeruddin to Fellow status, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the advancement of the chemical sciences.
The European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) has unanimously accepted the nomination of Prof. Nazeeruddin to its membership of the best European scientists in material science.
The Royal Society of Chemistry, founded in 1841, with now over 54000 members, is a British, world’s leading chemistry learned society, for the advancement of the chemical sciences and the dissemination of chemical knowledge.
The European Academy of Sciences, founded in Belgium in 2003 and with about 600 members, is an international association of distinguished scholars that aims to recognize and gather the best European scientists in order to strengthen European science and scientific cooperation and utilize the expertise of its members in advising European bodies for the betterment of European research, technological application and social development.
Prof. Nazeeruddin currently leads the “Group of Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials” at EPFL-Valais and has joint affiliations with universities in South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Brunei. His present research focuses on perovskite solar cells, CO2 reduction, hydrogen production, and light-emitting diodes. He is the author of more than 550 peer-reviewed papers, ten book chapters, holds over 75 patents and has more than 60’000 citations with an h-index of 116.
Prof. Nazeeruddin has been named by Thomson Reuters as “Highly Cited Researcher” and one of the “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” from all scientific domains.