Dr. Munshi earned his M.S. and Ph.D. respectively in 2013 and 2017 from the Colorado State University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Being an alumnus of the department that he now serves as a faculty member, Dr. Munshi holds strong ties through his various roles over the several years. Dr. Munshi also served briefly as the Chief Research & Development Officer for Ohio based Toledo Solar Inc. that is one of the cadmium telluride-based solar panel manufacturing company. Briefly after joining the industrial R&D Dr. Munshi felt he was better suited to work in an academic research laboratory where the research is less restrictive.

Dr. Munshi’s research and teaching interests have a strong focus on thin film and surface treatment with specialization in materials science and engineering as well as process development in this area. He is recipient of the prestigious IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference best research paper award for two consecutive years – 2016 and 2017. In 2020, while serving at CSU as a Research Scientist he was awarded the CSU Administrative Professional Council Star Award for his dedicated research efforts as well as his service to the academic research community and his colleagues. He has also been part of several conference organization committees such as the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC) as session and area chair. He has also authored numerous journal and conference publications and has lead teams of graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to demonstrate some of the highest efficiency cadmium telluride-based solar cells in the world.

Presently, Dr. Munshi is one of the principal investigators at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC). He also works closely with several chapters within the Navajo Nation with the goal of clean and sustainable electrification of the underserved families from the Indigenous Community. In addition to research in thin film photovoltaics, he is also involved with development of anti-microbial surface development for potential applications in biomedical implants.