Dr. Akif Zeb

Surface and Materials Technology
Institute of Materials Engineering
University of Siegen
Paul-Bonatz-Straße 9-11
57076 Siegen
GERMANY
Activities
Design and development of battery materials for
supercapacitor-battery hybrids.
Research Interests
Materials Chemistry, Advanced Inorganic Materials,
Batteries, Energy Storage, Electrocatalysis, Heterogenous
Catalysis, Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs), TMOs, AOPs,
Fenton reactions, CVD, Electrochemistry.
Professional Career
since November 2024
MSCA STAR Fellow and EU Researcher at the Chair of Surface and Materials Technology, Institute of Materials Science, University of Siegen.
December 2022
Assistant Research Fellow at Hunan Joint International Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Technology for Clean Energy, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China.
April 2019
Guangdong Talent Postdoc Fellow at School of Physical and Telecommunications Engineering and School of Chemistry, South China Normal University, Guangzhou.
December 2009 - March 2015
Research Associate and Lab Demonstrator (Junior Faculty) at School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Science and Technology, China.
April 2007 - July 2008
Quality Control Analyst – Werrick Pharmaceuticals and Welwrd Pharmaceuticals, Islamabad, Pakistan.)
Academic Career
2018
PhD Inorganic Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
2014
MS Materials and Surface Engineering, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
2011
MPhil Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
2007
MSc Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan.
2004
BSc Chemistry, Botany and Zoology, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan.