Biography:

Dr. Engr. Sheikh Manjura Hoque is serving as the Chief Scientific Officer (Grade-2) and the Head, Materials Science Division, Atomic Energy Centre Dhaka where she joined in 2001. Dr. Hoque received her B.Sc Engg.(1994) from Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET); M.Sc. Engg.(2000) from Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institutes of Science (IISc), Bangalore; and Ph.D.(2007) from Department of Physics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Dr. Hoque conducted research on bionanomaterials as MRI Contrast Dye and Hyperthermia under NIH Grant in 2012-2013 as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University supervised by Prof. Fahmeed Hyder. She published 150 papers and contributed 130 presentations in conferences. She jointly supervised a total of 64 students and 3 postdocs. Dr. Hoque is the Coordinator of the Dhaka Nanomaterials Science Group, a BAN-02/2 program funded by the International Science Programme, Uppsala University, Sweden. She established laboratories of TEM, MRI, XRD, DSC, FT-IR, DLS etc.. Among the many honors, she is the recipient of BAS-Dr. Innas Ali Gold Medal Award (2013) and Best Paper Award from Materials Transactions, JIM(2000).