Dr. Hardian is currently a Research Scientist at the group of Prof. Gyorgy Szekely at KAUST. His main research interest encompasses the development of advanced membranes (including polymer and composite nanomaterials), and the application of advanced materials characterization techniques (spectroscopy and imaging) to investigate the material properties. Dr. Hardian obtained his BSc in Chemistry from Indonesia University of Education followed by an MSc in Environmental and Energy Management from University of Twente (Netherlands). He also received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship to pursue a double MSc degree in Materials Science from INP Grenoble (France) and TU Darmstadt (Germany). Following that, he was awarded a Marie Sklodowska Curie Action (MSCA) scholarship to complete his PhD in Materials Science from Aix-Marseille University (France), where he worked on engineering defects in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for molecular separation, under the supervision of Dr. Philip Llewellyn.