Mahmuda Akter, Ph.D., is working as a professor in the Department of Apparel Engineering at Bangladesh University of Textiles. She received her Ph.D. in textile engineering from Erciyes University. She earned her M.Sc. in Textile Engineering from Bangladesh University of Textiles. She was appointed as a lecturer in 2011 in the Department of Apparel Engineering at Bangladesh University of Textiles. Prior to becoming a faculty member of BUTEX, she had professional and industrial experience in textile factories. Her major fields of study and interests are graphene, graphene-based nanocomposites, textile materials, technical textiles, textile structural composites, and performance textile finishes.