Dr Wan Maryam binti Wan Ahmad Kamil

Dr Wan Maryam Wan Ahmad Kamil received her BSc and PhD in Physics from The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom in 2008 and 2013 respectively and is a certified trainer. She is currently an Associate Professor in Physics at the University Sains Malaysia (USM) and is currently serving as the Director at the Industry Network Office USM task with managing networks and engagement between USM and the industry. Her research focus is mainly on sustainable semiconductor laser material and utilising nanotechnology to fabricate wide bandgap lasers. During her PhD, she received training in low-temperature laser-based spectroscopy and nanotechnology at Nottingham University (UK). She later established her own self-built laser spectroscopy in the Nano Optoelectronic Research lab (NORLAB, USM) in pursuit of unravelling the UV random lasing phenomenon. She obtained the University of Southampton travel award under ESPRC in 2018 was a visiting scholar at King Abdullah University of Technology (KAUST) in 2017 and most recently was a visiting Scholar at Australian National University (ANU) in 2019 for a year. She was also nominated to attend the Nobel Laureates Meeting in Lindau, Germany in 2019. She was appointed as the Young Scientist Network fellow under the Academy of Sciences Malaysia in 2024 and actively engages in promoting STEM and preparing for Malaysia’s National Education Framework. Her current work focuses on random lasing from wide bandgap materials (ZnO, GaN, hBN) and its integration with optical fibres. Due to her expertise in laser-matter interaction, she has also conducted training for engineers from Keysight Technologies since 2023 on laser interferometry.