Dr. Munawar Khalil

Dr. Khalil is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Universitas Indonesia and currently serves as the Director of Research and Development under the Office of Vice Rector for Research and Innovation, Universitas Indonesia.  

He earned his PhD in chemistry from New Mexico Tech (NMT), USA in 2015. He holds bachelor’s degree in chemistry from IPB University and obtained master’s degree in chemical engineering from University of Malaya, Malaysia in 2011. Before joining UI in 2016, he was HIR Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center of Energy Science and briefly worked as Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Nanotechnology and Catalysis (NANOCAT), University of Malaya, Malaysia. 

He was the recipient of the 2015 NMT Founders Award and Ambassador Award for Excellence from the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Washington DC in 2014. In 2020, he received the Bright Scientist Award from the Dean of Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Indonesia. Recently, Khalil was also listed in 2023 Stanford’s list of world top 2% scientists (Elsevier). He also currently serves as Editorial Board Member at SN Applied Sciences (Springer-Nature Journal), Chemistry Africa (Springer-Nature Journal), Makara Journal of Science (UI), and Journal of Research and Development on Nanotechnology (ITB).  

His research interests include the rational design of low-dimension functional nanomaterials with specific application in catalysis, renewable energy, biomedical, electronics and sensing devices, oil and gas industry, and energy storage. He has published in total 108 documents in Scopus, where 93.3% of them are in the Q1 and Q2 journals. (Scopus h-index: 25; total citations: 1,972; FWCI: 1.3).