Education

• BS, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Pakistan, 2010
• MSc, Advanced Materials and Processes, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, 2012
• PhD, Medical Biotechnology, Technical University of Berlin, Germany, 2016
• Postdoc, Regenerative Therapies, Charite University Hospital Berlin, Germany, 2019
• Postdoc, Polymeric Biomaterials, University of Pennsylvania, 2022

Research Interests

• Novel tissue regenerative therapies
• Polymeric biomaterials
• Microscale engineering tools
• 3D stem-cell culture
• Musculoskeletal trauma

Publications

Awards

• Poster Prize (1st), CMBE Conference, 2022
• Featured Speaker and Future Faculty Fellow, BME UNITE Webinar Series, 2021
• Sci-Art Competition (1st Prize), Society for Biomaterials, ECTM SIG, 2021
• Postdoctoral Recognition Award, Society for Biomaterials, 2021
• Outstanding Reviewer Award, Biomedical materials (IOP Publishing), 2019
• International Research Fellowship, German Research Foundation (DFG)2019-2022
• Basic Research Prize, German Society for Orthopedics and Traumatology, 2017
• Doctoral Dissertation Prize, German Society for Traumatology, 2017
• Outstanding Publication in Regenerative Medicine Award, Charit? Berlin, 2016
• Poster Prize (1st Place), Symposium in Molecular Medicine, Universit?t Ulm, 2016
• Poster Prize (2nd Place), Myology Summer School-Max Delbr?ck Center Berlin
• Young investigator Award, Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery-Charit? Berlin, 2015
• Senior Design Project Award (1st Place), Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, GIKI, 2010