Associate Professor Ts ChM Dr Nik Ahmad Nizam Nik Malek obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He is Director of Centre for Sustainable Nanomaterials (CSNano), Institute Ibnu Sina for Scientific and Industrial Research (ISI-SIR), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He is also a registered chemist (ChM) under Institut Kimia Malaysia, Professional Technologist (Ts) under Malaysian Board of Technologists, Chartered Chemist (CChem) under Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), President of Malaysian Zeolite Association, and chief editor of Journal of Materials in Life Sciences. His research field is applied materials science for biological and medical applications including zeolite, kaolinite, silver nanoparticles, and silica aerogels nanoparticles.