Prof. Faiz Ahmed Khan completed his PhD from the University of Hyderabad (Prof. G. Mehta) in the year 1994. In the same year, he joined Technische Universitaet, Dresden Germany (Prof. H,-U, Reissig) as a Humboldt Postdoctoral fellow (1994-96). In 1996 he joined as a lecturer at IIT Kanpur and became assistant Prof. in 1997. In 2005 he became Prof. at IIT Kanpur. Then he joined the Department of Chemistry at IIT Hyderabad as a Professor in 2010.