Dr. Mahamuda Shaik is working as an Associate professor in the Department of Physics, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation (KLEF), Andhra Pradesh, India since 2007. She received her master’s Degree, M.Phil in physics from Acharya Nagarjuna University and Doctoral degree from K L E F, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, respectively. She has total 16 years of teaching and research experience in her career. She is BOS member of many Engineering institutions in Andhra Pradesh. She has received many awards and recognitions during her academic, teaching and research career like Best Woman Scientist Award and Best young faculty award (Novel Research Academy-2021 & 2022), Best Teacher Award for (KLEF-2015-16, 2016-17, 2019-20 and 2020-21), Department IQAC in-charge for Quality Contributions (KLEF-2019), Early Career Research Award (DST-SERB-2016-2019), Young Women Achiever’s Award (Venus International Foundation-2016),Woman Scientist (WOS-A) (DST-2012). Under her supervision, one research scholar’s 2 Ph.D’s are awarded, one Ph.D is submitted and 3 more research scholars are perusing their Ph.D. She has successfully completed two sponsored research projects sanctioned by DST, Government of India under women scientist scheme (2012 – 2015/ 15 Lakhs) and Early career research award (DST-SERB/2016-2019/52 Lakhs). She has also published 4 patents. In her research work, she is preparing optical glasses and phosphors that can be used for Laser, optical fiber and solid state lightening applications. Dr Mahamuda Sahik has published 66 research papers in reputed SCI journals. She is also acting as a Project Implementation group member for DST-PURSE (7 Crores) DST-FIST level-1 project (1.07 crores) sanctioned by DST, Government of India. She has presented the results of her research work in more than 85 international and national conferences. Her research citations are more than 2330 and h-index: 29, i10-index: 46. She also acts as reviewer for many international journals of high repute.