Dr. Mainul Islam

Associate Professor Dr. Mainul Islam is an academic in Mechanical Engineering with specialisation in Composite Materials in the School of Engineering at the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), Australia. He also belongs to the Centre for Future Materials at UniSQ for conducting research. He completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is a graduate and also former Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering of Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh. He got Master degree in Structural Engineering from Kyushu University, Japan. He has been with UniSQ since 2008 just after completing PhD. His current research interests are in the areas of smart and sustainable composites and shape memory polymeric materials especially for infrastructure and biomedical applications. He has over 160 research publications based on his research outcomes. He has been able to secure a total of over $1.5M research funding jointly and individually during his academic career so far. He has supervised over 15 PhD students to their completion. He serves as Editorial Board member for several renowned journals and Technical Committee member for several international conferences. He is a Fellow (FIEAust) and Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) of Engineers Australia and a Fellow of Materials Australia (CMatP). He is also a Higher Education Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA) based in UK.