Dr. Shabnam Siddiqui is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University at Shreveport (LSUS), Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. She teaches physics and conducts research for developing electrochemical microsensors using carbon nanomaterials. She applies active learning approaches for teaching physics courses and focuses on developing new methods for learning physics and assessment methods. She studies novel properties of carbon nanomaterials for attaining reliable and real-time sensing of brain chemicals in animal models. She has authored an undergraduate level textbook on Quantum Mechanics, and numerous peer-reviewed articles. She earned a PhD in Physics in quantum computing and quantum information from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Arkansas. She received postdoctoral training at NASA Ames Research Center, California, and the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has also worked at Advanced Diamond technologies, Illinois, and Louisiana Tech University prior to joining LSUS.