Shakeel Ahmed is an assistant professor of chemistry at the Higher Education Department, Jammu and Kashmir, India, and Government Degree College Mendhar, Jammu and Kashmir. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, USA; the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK; the International Association of Advanced Materials, Sweden; and the Asian Polymer Association and Society of Materials Chemistry, India. He is also a fellow of the Linnean Society of London and the International Society for Development and Sustainability, Japan. Dr Ahmed has published more than 25 books on nanomaterials and green materials.

>200) and several book chapters and review articles. His research interests include pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical nanotechnology, nanomedicine, pre-formulation profiling, solid-state characterization, nanomaterials, microneedles technology, and polymer grafting.