Abrar Jawad Haque, an alumnus of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), has been awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellowship under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme.

He will begin his three-year PhD in September 2025 at the University of Hamburg, Germany, with additional research placements at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, and Leiden University, Netherlands. Abrar was also offered another Marie Curie fellowship in Belgium and a fully funded PhD at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia.

The fellowship, funded by the EU, covers living expenses, research costs, mobility, and family support. Abrar’s doctoral research will focus on nanodevices for bionanoparticle detection—combining nanotechnology and biosensing for healthcare and environmental diagnostics.

He joined IUB in Fall 2018 and completed his BSc in EEE in 2022. In 2023, he received the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Scholarship in Smart Systems Integrated Solutions, offered jointly by Aalto University (Finland), University of South-Eastern Norway, and Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary). As part of the programme, he interned at CERN in Geneva and conducted his thesis at SINTEF, Oslo, focusing on piezoelectric MEMS.

As an undergraduate, Abrar worked as a Research Assistant at the IUB Photonics Simulation Lab under Dr Mustafa Habib Chowdhury and later served as a Teaching Assistant under Prof Dr Md Abdur Razzak. His undergraduate thesis was published in Applied Optics in 2023.

Abrar credited IUB’s research environment for shaping his academic path. Dr Chowdhury noted that Abrar’s achievements reflect both his dedication and the department’s commitment to fostering quality research at the undergraduate level.