Zeeshan Ahmed is currently a project leader in the Sensor Science Division at NIST. His background includes work in Photonic sensing, Surface enhanced deep UV resonance Raman spectroscopy off structured Aluminum nanoarrays, time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy of (bio)polymers and Terahertz spectroscopy of biomaterials and pharmaceuticals. He received his PhD from University of Pittsburgh in 2008 and BSc from George Mason University in 2001.