Sherdil Khan

Adjunct prof. of Physics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and team leader of Laboratory of Nanomaterials for Renewable Energy and Artificial Photosynthesis (NanoREAP), Institute of Physics, UFRGS. Completed post-doctorate (2017) and PhD in Physics (2015) from UFRGS, MSc Physics from the Hazara University, Pakistan (2007) and BSc (Mathematics and Physics) from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan (2003). Permanent faculty member of the Postgraduate program in Physics and Postgraduate program in Materials Science, UFRGS. Main research interests are to develop nano-architectured semiconductor devices for applications in green energy generation. These applications include photochemical and photoelectrochemical water splitting, dye-sensitized solar cells and photoreduction of CO2. In particular, he is interested to investigate optical, morphological, electronic and structural properties of nanomaterials via advanced characterization techniques and to find their correlation with solid/liquid interfaces via electrochemical techniques such as electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and other photoelectrochemical analyses. In recognition to his best academic performance, he was awarded Gold Medals in BSc and MSc in Pakistan. In 2014, he was granted with Bernhard Gross Award, by the Brazilian Materials Research Society. Researcher ID (C-5978-2016)