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## Meet the editor

Faheem Uddin earned a Ph.D. in Textile Special Finishing from the University of Manchester, UK. His current research interests are in the processing of the textile fiber, clay study, flame retardancy, cellulose/cotton cross-linking, and environment-friendly processing. He is the principal author of more than 40 research publications in reputed journals. He is the author of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) award-winning research paper

on montmorillonite clay that is a highly cited paper to date and has over 26 000 ResearchGate reads. He is a fellow of The Textile Institute, United Kingdom, and received the Best Research Paper Award by HEC, Pakistan, and the Research Productivity Award, PSF, Pakistan, and RULA Best Researcher of The Year 2019. He is presently serving as a professor at Iqra University, Karachi, Pakistan.

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