Dr. Abu Bin Imran is a Professor of Chemistry at BUET. He completed his BSc and MSc in Chemistry at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, in 2004 and 2006. In 2009, he received the MEXT scholarship for his Doctor of Engineering at Nagoya University, Japan, under Professor Yukikazu Takeoka. He then worked as a NEDO project researcher and Assistant Professor at Nagoya University, and as a VBL Fellow there. In 2021, he received a Fulbright Fellowship for research at Rice University, followed by a postdoc in Chemistry at UNC Chapel Hill in 2022. His honors include the MBT Center Research Encouragement Award (Japan, 2010) and the Bayer Science and Education Foundation Fellowship (Germany, 2013). He has been an Associate Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences since 2024. Dr. Imran has about 60 journal publications in Nature Communications, Science Advances, Chemical Communications, and Macromolecules, plus 50 book chapters, one edited book (Innovations in Nanomaterials), and 80+ conference proceedings. His work has 3,200 citations, an h-index of 26, and an i10-index of 50. He sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Modern Polymer Chemistry and Materials and reviews for 70+ journals. He leads the Soft and Smart Materials Laboratory at BUET, researching smart hydrogels, nanomaterials, plastic upcycling, sensors, bio-composites, photochemistry, stretchable electronics, supercapacitors, and supramolecular systems, while mentoring future researchers.