Umme Zakira joined as a postdoctoral researcher in March 2022. She completed herMS in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington in August 2017, where her research was focused on life cycle assessment and cost-benefit analysis of landfill mining. She started her PhD in Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University in 2018, successfully defending her dissertation in February 2022. She worked on the development of sustainable building materials during her doctoral study. Her research interests include synthesis of geopolymer, rheological characterization, additive manufacturing (3D printing), nanoindentation testing and nanomechanical characterization, dielectric properties, electro-kinetic study, and microstructural investigation of materials.