Dr Sajjad Mofarah received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from UNSW Sydney in 2020, specialising in applied electrochemistry and the development of ultrathin metal-based coordination polymer–derived materials for catalysis and energy storage. In 2019, he was appointed as a Research Assistant at UNSW, advancing pioneering work on heterojunction nanostructures.

Following his doctorate, he joined the UNSW SMaRT Centre as a Research Associate, where he contributed to cyclic reprocessing of battery materials into high-value nanostructures, the structural and architectural engineering of advanced materials, and state-of-the-art characterisation of metal- and polymer-based systems.

Since 2022, Dr Mofarah has been leading a major industry-supported commercialisation program focused on next-generation battery technologies, driving the scalable development of novel cathode and electrolyte materials for high-performance sodium- and lithium-ion batteries.