Prof. Muhammad S. Khan was an 1851 Exhibition Scholar and received his Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Cambridge, U.K. Currently he is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman. Formerly he was a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, a Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Bath and the University Chemical Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK), and a Visiting Fellow in the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Prof. Khan has received many medals and awards, notably, the H.P. Ray Gold Medal of the University of Dhaka (1986), Junior Gold Medal of the Bangladesh Academy of Science (1994), the Best Researcher Award, College of Science, SQU (2005, 2017), the National Research Award, The Research Council, Oman (2018), and the Most Active Research Group Award, Deanship of Research, SQU (2020). His research interests include the design and development of novel functional materials such as conjugated organic and organometallic polymers, metal organic frameworks and lanthanide coordination complexes for sustainable energy applications. Prof. Khan is the Editor-in-Chief of the SQU Journal for Science and an Editorial Board Member of the MDPI journal Polymers. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.