Dr. Munawar Khalil is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Indonesia. He earned his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Bogor Agricultural University in 2007, followed by an M.Eng.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Malaya in 2011. In 2015, he completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at New Mexico Tech, USA, where he conducted research under Dr. Ning Liu and Dr. Michael D. Heagy. Dr. Khalil's research focuses on the rational design of low-dimensional functional nanomaterials for applications in catalysis, renewable energy, biomedical devices, electronics, sensing devices, the oil and gas industry, and energy storage. His scholarly contributions include over 120 publications, with a citation count nearing 3,000 and an h-index of 29. Dr. Khalil has been recognized with the NMT Founders Award and the Ambassador Award for Excellence from the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Washington, D.C.
