Mohd Shabbir, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Science, Chandigarh Group of Colleges Jhanjeri, Punjab, India. Prior to this, he had been working as a post-doctoral fellow at the School of Chemical Engineering and Pharmacy, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China. He worked there on regenerated cellulose materials for environmental remediation, sensing, and biomedical applications. He has more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific research publications and six edited books. His current research focuses on biopolymers, cellulose materials, biomaterials for adsorption and catalysis, wastewater treatment, and functional textiles.