Introduction:

Dr. Muhammad Ali Hashmi was born in 1987 in Gujar Khan, District Rawalpindi, Pakistan and received his early education from Sohawa (Jhelum) and Rawalpindi. He got his MSc degree in the subject of Chemistry with a specialization in Organic Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry, University of AJ&K, Muzaffarabad, in 2009. Dr. Hashmi received his MS degree from the Department of Chemistry, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Abbottabad in 2012 availing Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan's Indigenous Ph.D. scholarship. He completed his Ph.D. research work and degree requirements and got a scholarship offer for a Ph.D. at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand. He moved to VUW in March 2015.

He worked on Isolation and characterization of important molecules from the leaves of Olea ferruginea (Wild olive). He submitted his Ph.D. thesis for examination to CIIT in December 2015 and got a Ph.D. degree from CIIT in September 2016. During his stay at VUW, he worked in the field of computational chemistry and developed an algorithm (MICE-PES) to accurately sample the conformational space of conformationally flexible natural products.

During his Ph.D. study, Dr. Hashmi also worked as a Lab Demonstrator at VUW undergraduate labs. He completed his Ph.D. degree from the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences (SCPS), VUW, New Zealand in May 2018. After that, he returned to Pakistan to serve his home country and joined the Department of Chemistry, University of Management & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan in 2018 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry under Interim Placement for Fresh PhDs (IPFP) program of HEC Pakistan. Dr. Hashmi joined the University of Education Lahore, Attock Campus as Assistant Professor (TTS) in March 2019. His research interests include the computational investigation of Hydrogen Evolution Reaction, Electrochemical Sensors, conformational analysis of flexible systems and their physical properties, prediction of accurate NMR spectra using computational chemistry tools; mechanistic investigation of organic synthetic pathways; single-atom catalysis, fullerenes/carbon nano-onions (CNOs), their electronic structure and physical properties, etc.

He has published 61 research papers in impact factor journals of International repute by April 2023. Dr. Hashmi has presented his research work in many National and International Conferences in Pakistan as well as abroad.