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Dr. Sikander Azam Associate Professor, Department of Physics Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan Dr. Sikander Azam is an accomplished physicist specializing in condensed matter physics, with expertise in electronic structure, optical, magnetic, and thermoelectric properties of advanced materials. He earned his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from the University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam, focusing on doping-induced effects on optical properties of pyrochlores. His research employs first-principles density functional theory (DFT) to investigate structural, electronic, and transport phenomena in rare-earth materials, semiconductors, and low-dimensional systems. He has published over 306 peer-reviewed research articles with a cumulative impact factor exceeding 960, alongside a book chapter on organic thermoelectric materials. His work has achieved an h-index of 28 and an i10-index of 102, reflecting significant contributions to theoretical and computational physics. In addition to research, Dr. Azam has extensive teaching and supervision experience. He has supervised or co-supervised 3 PhD students and 6 international PhD students and has mentored over 100 MPhil students in their research projects. He is also proficient in advanced computational codes such as Wien2k, BoltzTraP, Elastic, and Gibbs, and actively collaborates with international researchers. His current research interests include: Optical and magnetic properties of bulk and 2D systems Thermoelectric materials for energy applications Doping and electronic structure engineering near the Fermi level Computational modeling of correlated electron systems