Bio: Dr. Irshad Kammakakam received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Incheon National University, South Korea in 2015. Dr. Kammakakam joined Nazarbayev University in the fall of 2023 as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. His research focused on developing advanced organic porous materials and functional polymeric membranes for energy-saving separation technology and environmental green energy applications. Before joining Nazarbayev University, Dr. Kammakakam was a Research Scientist at the Advanced Materials Chemistry Center, Khalifa University, UAE. He also worked as a Visiting Scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea (March 2015 to November 2016) and completed multiple Postdocs at the European Institute of Membranes, France (June 2017 to May 2018), the University of Alabama, USA (May 2018 to August 2021), and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia (August 2021 to November 2022). He has an outstanding record of publications (a total of 34 Publications in Web of Science) with more than 3000 citations with an h-index of 21, and invented many patents (1 US, 3 Korean Issued, and 4 Korean Filed ). Dr. Kammakakam has been involved in many international projects mainly the Department Of Energy and NASA on “Design and Synthesis of Ionic-polymers as Separation Membranes as well as Shape-memory and Self-healing applications”. Dr. Kammakakam has bagged many awards and achievements including the recipient of the 2020 Future Faculty Mentoring Program sponsored by the EdDiv of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the award for most cited article of RSC in 2022. He also serves as an academic editor as well as a reviewer in several high-impact factor Q1 journals, including ACS Macromolecules, Polymers, Membranes, and Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry.