Dr. Muhammad Tahir received his MSc degree in Physics with Gold Medal from the Kohat University of Science and Technology, KPK, Pakistan in 2007. He obtained MS and PhD degrees in Engineering Sciences (Applied Physics), from Ghulam Ishaq Khan (GIK) Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, KPK, Pakistan in 2009 and 2014, respectively. He has worked as PhD visiting researcher at Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, UK in 2011. In 2020, he has completed his postdoctoral research from University of Malaya, Malaysia. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor of Physics and Principal Investigator of the Semiconductor Physics and Devices Laboratory at the Department of Physics, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, KPK, Pakistan. His research interests are semiconductor thin films, renewable energy, thermoelectric devices, organic-inorganic hybrid nanocomposite based sensors and optoelectronic devices.