Full Professor of Condensed Matter Physics with over 22 years of experience in teaching, research, and doctoral supervision. Combines experimental and theoretical approaches spanning crystallography, spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, nanomaterials, and density functional theory (DFT), with applications in optoelectronics, renewable energy, thermoelectric, and biomedical nanotechnology. Author of over 130 peer-reviewed publications, one chapter and one book, having supervised eight PhD students and built an extensive international research network across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.