Fayaz Hussain joined the Department of Materials Engineering in 2007, first as a Lecturer, then after Assistant Professor in 2010, and promoted as an Associate Professor in 2020, then again promoted as a Professor and Chairman the Department of Materials Engineering in 2022. Prior to this, he worked three years in metal industry. He is also editorial board member of journals of “Frontiers in Materials”, “Electroactive Materials” and “Advanced Dielectrics”. He has completed his PhD from the University of Sheffield, England, UK, in 2016-2017, worked on “KNN based lead-oxide free piezoelectric ceramics”. This ABO3 system has been studied from the perspective of optimizing its performance for multilayer actuators; potentially for energy harvesting applications under the supervision of Professor Ian Reaney at the University of Sheffield. To fabricate the multilayers, a novel Wet-Multilayer-Method (WMM) was also developed to overcome the issues of delamination during firing of multilayers actuators. He has authored/co-authored publications in well reputed journals, around 85 papers including key articles on piezoelectric, capacitor and microwave dielectric ceramics in bulk and multilayers. Current research interests: Synthesis of Piezoelectric Ceramics and their multilayers, Multiferroics, Thermoelectric Ceramics and Microwave dielectrics.