Biography

Mohammed Abdul Basith is serving as a Professor in the Department of Physics of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka. He received his B.Sc.(Hons.) in Physics 1997 (examination held in 1999) and M.Sc. in Physics in 1998 (examination held in 2001) from the Department of Physics, Shah Jalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh. He then acquired his M.Phil.  from the Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Dhaka in 2005 in Physics in the field of Magnetism. Basith has achieved PhD degree from the Materials and Condensed Matter Physics group, University of Glasgow, UK in 2011. Dr. Basith started his career as a Lecturer in the Department of Physics, Faujdarhat Cadet College, Chittagong, Bangladesh in 2001. Then he worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Physics of Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur, Bangladesh from 2001-2005. In 2005, he joined as a Lecturer in the Department of Physics, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Dhaka . He joined as an Assistant Professor in the same department in 2011 and promoted to Associate Professor in 2015. He has been appointed as a Professor in the same department in December 2017.

Professor Basith has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK as a recognition of his achievements in physics and contributions to the profession. He won the FORUM 86 Research Excellence Award 2022 (Senior Category) as a recognition of outstanding research accomplishments in the field of Nanotechnology. He has published more than 50 research papers in different prestigious journals like Physical Review Applied, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Nanoscale, etc. Over the last few years, Professor Basith has received research grants from international and national organizations worth 500 thousand USD. In BUET, he has established the Nanotechnology Research Laboratory for the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials for their potential applications. So far, he has supervised more than 30 students for their PhD, M.Phil. and MSc degrees. He is the founder president of the National Young Academy of Bangladesh and is actively involved in organizing events at national and international levels to inspire young minds to build up their meaningful career.

Professor Basith’s research interests include transmission electron microscopy(TEM)  characterization of patterned ferromagnetic nanostructures by lithographic techniques. At present in BUET he is working on preparation and characterization of multiferroic materials for energy related and spintronic applications. He is also conducting micromagnetic simulation of magnetic nanostructures by solving Landau Lifshitz Gilbert (LLG) equation with the aid of simulation package OOMMF.

Awards and Scholarships

1. Glasgow University funded postgraduate scholarship, September 2007 – March 2011
2. Overseas Research Student Award Scheme (ORSAS), September 2007 – March 2011.
3. Japanese Government Monbu-Kagakusho Scholarship for PhD programme (Not avail), Keio University, Japan 2007.
4. Japanese Government Monbu-Kagakusho Scholarship for PhD programme (Not avail), Ehime University, Japan 2005.
5. International Graduate Scholarship for PhD programme, National Taiwan University (Not avail), 2007.
6. State Educational Fund for M.Sc programme from Norwegian University of Science
   and Technology, Norway. 2004 (Not avail).

Current Research Projects

1. Solar hydrogen production via water splitting.
2. Structural, dielectric, ferroelectric and magnetic properties and Tunable exchange bias effect in rare earth doped multiferroics.
3. Development of top-down preparation technique of multiferroic nanoparticles directly from bulk material.
4. Synthesis and characterization of multiferroic and magnetites nanoparticles.
5. Micromagnetic simulations of the influence of edge profiles of ferromagnetic nanowires on the magnetic behavior of domain walls.
6. Understanding and controlling of domain wall behavior in ferromagnetic nanowires by ion irradiated pinning features using micromagnetic simulations.

Peer Reviewer

1. Physical Review Applied (Publisher: American Physical Society).
2. Applied Physics Letters (Publisher: American Institute of Physics).
3. Journal of Applied Physics (American Institute of Physics).
4. Journal of Materials Chemistry C (Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry, UK).
5. RSC Advances (Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry, UK) .
6. Physica B: Condensed Matter Physics (Publisher: Elsevier).
7. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (Publisher: Elsevier).
8. Modern Physics Letters B (Publisher: World Scientific).
9. Materials Research Bulletin (Publisher: Elsevier).
10. Materials Science and Engineering B (Publisher: Elsevier).