Short Biography: Dr Khurshid Ayub is currently working as a Professor at the department of chemistry, COMSATS University Abbottabad Campus. He did his PhD from the University of Victoria (Canada) in 2008 in organic Materials under the supervision of Prof Dr Reg Mitchell. He Remained a post doctoral fellow in the labs of Prof Dr Bob Lemieux at Queen’s University (Canada) from January 2009- October 2010 where he did work on Liquid Crystals. Dr Khurshid joined COMSATS in 2010. He is a well known Computational Materials Chemist and his research covers different topics in computational chemistry including catalysis, nonlinear optics, sensors, photoswitches etc. He has published over 530 research articles in well reputed international scientific journals in the domain of computational chemistry with cumulative impact factor of more than 2000. Citations of his research articles are more than 31196. His h-index and i10 index are 61 and 312, respectively. He has supervised 13 PhD students as supervisor and co-supervisor and over 60 MS/MPhil students. He is a regular reviewer of over 100 international peer reviewed scientific journals. He has over 10 years of teaching experience in computational, analytical and general chemistry