Dr. Salman Noshear Arshad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM). He is also affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Hydrogen Technologies and Carbon Management. Before joining KFUPM in 2025, Dr. Arshad served as a faculty member at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), where he established and led a research group working on multifunctional nanofibers and nanocomposites for sustainable energy, environmental remediation, and structural applications. His research combines materials synthesis, electrospinning, nanostructure design, and advanced characterization to develop functional materials with controlled composition, morphology, and interfacial and surface properties. Dr. Arshad’s research has been published in leading journals, including Advanced Materials, Acta Materialia, Carbon, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Chemical Communications, Fuel, etc. He is also a co-inventor of a United States patent on the synthesis of surface modulated and high-strength carbon nanofibers.

Research Interests

Dr. Arshad’s research focuses on the design, synthesis, and characterization of nanostructured materials for sustainable energy and environmental technologies. His main research interests include:

• Development of low-cost and scalable electrocatalysts for green hydrogen production and electrochemical energy conversion and storage
• Carbon-based hierarchical, porous and composite materials
• Electrospun functional nanofiber membranes for water treatment, air filtration, and environmental remediation
• Upcycling waste into value-added chemicals and functional materials

Educational Qualifications

Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

B.S., Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan

Professional Experience

2025 - Present: Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

2025 - Present: Research Scholar, Interdisciplinary Research Center for Hydrogen Technologies and Carbon Management, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

2021 - 2025: Tenured Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan

2014 - 2021: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan

Courses Taught at KFUPM

• MSE 207: Materials Science for Chemical Engineers
• MSE 201: Introduction to Materials
• MSE 307: Materials Processing & Properties Lab

Dr. Arshad’s prior experience involves teaching courses in materials science, physical chemistry, polymer science and characterization techniques for materials.

Representative Publications

• F Ahmad, Khawar, M Faisal, M Yousuf, M Zaheer, S Çitoğlu, H Duran, Salman N. Arshad*, Sequential MOF-Derived Strategy for Uniformly Dispersed ZnO/Co₃O₄ Nanocrystals in Porous Carbon Nanofibers for Supercapacitors (2026), ACS Applied Engineering Materials 7(4), 4002-4012.
• Rabiya J. Awan, Zeliha Ertekin, Senem Çitoğlu, Hatice Duran, Salman N. Arshad* and Mark D. Symes*, Hollow nickel ferrite nanofibers templated using waste expanded polystyrene as electrocatalysts of the hydrogen evolution reaction (2026), Materials Advances 7(14), 7012-7021.
• Z Muhammad, M Saeed, S Çitoğlu, H Duran, SN Arshad*, Selective Plastic Photo Upcycling to Acetic Acid via Coupled Oxidation and CO₂ Reduction Over an S‐Scheme g‐C₃N₄/Fe₂O₃ Heterojunction (2026), ChemPlusChem 91 (4), e202500710.
• Z Muhammad, F Sajjad, SN Arshad, CM Pelicano, Solar‐Driven In Situ Hydrogen Peroxide Production Over Metal‐Free Carbon Nitrides for Environmental Remediation (2026), ChemPhotoChem 10 (4), e202500434.
• Khawar, M Yousuf, F Ahmad, S Çitoğlu, H Duran, SN Arshad*, Synergistic NiCo₂S₄ and carbon nanofiber hybrids delivering high capacitance and cycling stability (2026), Journal of Energy Storage 152, 120578.
• I Aziz, RJ Awan, A Hashmi, X Chen, X Hu, W Zhang, SN Arshad*, Hierarchically confined FeNiCoMn alloy nanoparticles enable the development of durable bifunctional air cathodes for zinc-air batteries (2026), Chemical Communications 62 (35), 8923-8927.
• F Sajjad, SN Arshad, F Aftab, MA Ehsan, A Saeed, S Manzoor, B Iqbal, MN Ashiq, One pot fabrication of FeNi-BTC MOFs as effective electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (2025), Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 119556.
• Zobia Siddique, Salman Noshear Arshad, Muhammad Ali Ehsan, Faryal Aftab, Akhtar Munir, Suryyia Manzoor, Sadia Fatima, Farah Sajjad, Javed Ahmad, Hatice Duran, Senem Çitoğlu, Flower-like nanoscale Ni(OH)₂/MnCO₃ electrocatalyst for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction in wide pH range (2025), Fuel (394), 135164.
• Bashir, I., McGettrick, J.D., Kühnel, M.F., Sarfraz, B., Arshad, S.N., Rauf, A., Sustainable Formate Synthesis: Integrating Ethylene Glycol Oxidation with Carbon Dioxide Electrocatalysis Using Redox-Stabilized Earth-Abundant Electrodes (2024), ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 12(12), 4795-4802. 
• Abdullah, M., Iqbal, J., Ur Rehman, M.S., Khalid, U., Mateen, F., Arshad, S.N., Al-Sehemi, A.G., Algarni, H., Al-Hartomy, O.A., Fazal, T., Removal of ceftriaxone sodium antibiotic from pharmaceutical wastewater using an activated carbon based TiO₂ composite: Adsorption and photocatalytic degradation evaluation (2023) Chemosphere, 317, art. no. 137834. 
• Tahir, A., Haq, T.U., Aftab, F., Zaheer, M., Duran, H., Kirchhoff, K., Lieberwirth, I., Arshad, S.N.*, Amorphous to Crystalline Ni₃S₂ Nanostructures Anchored on N-Doped Carbon Nanofibers for Electrochemical Splitting of Water (2023) ACS Applied Nano Materials, 6(4), 2336-2345. 

Patent

Chasiotis, I.; Naraghi, M.; Arshad, S. N. “Carbon Nanofibers Derived from Polymer Nanofibers and Method of Producing the Nanofibers.” U.S. Patent No. 8,608,992.