Dr. Shabnam Siddiqui is a research assistant professor at Louisiana Tech University, LA. She teaches physics and conducts research for developing electrochemical microsensors using carbon nanomaterials. She applies active learning approaches for teaching physics courses and focuses on developing new methods for learning physics, and quantum mechanics. Dr. Siddiqui studies properties of carbon nanomaterials for attaining reliable and real-time sensing. She has authored over 20 peer reviewed journal papers. She earned a PhD in physics in quantum computing and quantum information in 2006 from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, AR. Dr. Siddiqui received postdoctoral training at NASA Ames Research Center, CA, and the University of Pittsburgh, PA. She had also worked at Advanced Diamond Technologies, IL prior to joining Louisiana Tech.