5/3/2024
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MechSE doctoral student Shahriar Muhammad Nahid was recently awarded a Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Award (GSA), as a Silver award recipient. He was honored in April during the MRS 2024 Spring Meeting and Exhibit in Seattle, Washington, where he also presented his research.
The MRS Graduate Student Awards honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high level of excellence and distinction. The award application is open to students who have authored or co-authored an abstract submitted for that particular MRS meeting. The MRS GSA is a prestigious and competitive award and a majority of past awardees have joined top-tier institutions as faculty members or leading researchers.
Nahid is co-advised by Professors Arend van der Zande and SungWoo Nam (now on faculty at the University of California, Irvine). In his research, Nahid has explored how the distinctive characteristics of 2D materials, such as lower dimensionality and enhanced flexibility, interact with the optoelectronic properties of ferroelectrics. In his most recent work, he experimentally identified the underlying mechanism of the photovoltaic effect in a 2D ferroelectric material. This study provides the design rules for utilizing the ferroelectric photovoltaic effect at the nanoscale which will be useful towards self-powered opto-electronic applications.
Nahid earned his BSc from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2018. He is the winner of numerous awards for his research and teaching, including Best Contributed Talk Award (MRS Spring 2023), Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship (Grainger College of Engineering, 2022), Teaching Fellowship (MechSE, Spring 2023), and the Teaching Excellence Award (MechSE, 2024).