Dr. Muhammad Akhyar Farrukh is working as Professor of Chemistry and Dean/Director Post Graduate Programs at Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. He also holds post of Adjunct Professor of Chemistry/Nanomaterials at Shandong University of Science and Technology, China. He has over 23 years of professional/ research and teaching experience. He also served as TWAS postdoc fellows at Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil and Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia.

He is the Chairman Technical Committee on Nanotechnology at PSQCA-Government of Pakistan, Member of Technical Committee ISO/TC 229 Nanotechnologies of International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Switzerland.

He has been duly awarded three gold medals for his outstanding academic performance in Chemistry and five gold medals including one from the Minister HED and Governor of the Punjab for his excellent performance in research and service to society. He has been awarded many international and national awards including Representative of Pakistan by UNESCO in Morocco, Young Chemist Award by IUPAC in Italy, Young Scientist Awards by TWAS in Egypt and IAP/GYA in Germany, Young Scientist Award by IAP/World Economic Forum in China, Young Researcher Award  by the Council for Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, IUPAC-2015 Award for Chemists as an outstanding chemist from developing countries in S. Korea, Research Productivity Awards with Category A, B, and C, Productive Scientist of Pakistan with rank at 11th in Pakistan in Chemistry category of Young Scientists in 2017 and 2018, SATHA Innovation Award 2018 with Gold Medal. He is ranked as the World’s Top 2% most-cited scientists by Stanford University since 2023.