Saad Khan

Bio

Saad Khan is INVISTA Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. After finishing his PhD in Chemical Engineering at MIT, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at AT&T Bell Laboratories, prior to joining NC State. Saad has varied research interests ranging from developing (i) functional materials such as aerogels for clean air (CO2 capture) and water (heavy metal removal) to (ii) biodegradable material platforms for targeted delivery of actives for enhanced crop protection. In the latter context, his research group has collaborated with researchers in Africa to help small farm holders there in enhancing crop yield (Nature Food, 2023; Nature Sustainability, 2022) using a ‘wrap and plant’ approach. He is also engaged in using particulates (Adv. Funct. Materials, 2022) and nanofibers (ACS Sustainable Chem. 2019) for rainfast foliar and seed applications, respectively, among other things. Khan has supervised over 60 PhD students and several postdocs, whose work has resulted in over 260 publications (h index 74) and 17 patents. Khan has won several awards including being a Fellow of the Society of Rheology and RJR Reynolds Tobacco Award for Research, Teaching & Extension at NC State.