{"id":2949,"date":"2026-08-07T11:09:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:10:01","slug":"congratulations-dr-ahmad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/news\/2026\/congratulations-dr-ahmad\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Dr. Ahmad!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Group member <a id=\"ember504\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mesbah-ahmad\/\">Mesbah Ahmad<\/a> successfully defended his PhD dissertation on \u201cAdvanced Manufacturing of Biopolymer Composites for Sustainable Soft Electronics and Eco-friendly Packaging\u201d. Throughout his PhD, Mesbah achieved significant milestones by working on several projects and collaborating with other research groups. Mesbah effectively represented the Velev group at several conferences and symposiums and mentored many undergraduate students. <br \/><br \/>As Mesbah starts his new corporate journey with Corning, we wish him the very best in all his future endeavors. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2950\" src=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/IMG_6210-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/IMG_6210-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/IMG_6210-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/IMG_6210-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/IMG_6210-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/IMG_6210-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group member Mesbah Ahmad successfully defended his PhD dissertation on \u201cAdvanced Manufacturing of Biopolymer Composites for Sustainable Soft Electronics and Eco-friendly Packaging\u201d. Throughout his PhD,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":992,"featured_media":2950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}