Prior to this appointment, Dr. Hossain was a postdoctoral researcher on ceramic additive manufacturing at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden and Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), South Korea. He has PhD, Masters, and Bachelor degrees all in ceramic engineering and has worked with ceramic materials for more than eight years. His PhD studies focused on waste-derived ceramics, either for low-density materials or for high temperature applications. During his Masters, he synthesized magnetic-dielectric compounds by the sol-gel auto combustion method and analyzed their magnetic-dielectric properties. His main research expertise lies in ceramic processing, including the use of high-end characterization methods to analyze thermal transformations and microstructures so as to ultimately correlate performance with raw materials and processing.