Dr. Khan did his Masters in Industrial Chemistry and PhD in Chemistry (Bioremediation of  organic compounds) from AMU Aligarh in the year 2007 and 2011 respectively. During his doctoral study, he also worked with his co-supervisor Prof. Vinod Tare in the Environmental Engineering and Management section of the department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur. He has qualified the NET examination and was awarded JRF and SRF during his doctoral studies. After completing his PhD, he was awarded the Erasmus Mundus Fellowship by the European Union to work at the prestigious University College of London as post-doctoral researcher. He remained there till late 2012 and thereafter joined the department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, IIT Delhi as Project Scientist under the DST Fast Track Young Scientist Scheme. He is also the recipient of  Dr. DS Kothari post-doctoral fellowship by the UGC. He has joined the department of Chemistry, AMU Aligarh in early 2014. He has been shifted to the newly created department of Industrial Chemistry on 01.02.2023.

Dr. Khan is working in the area of alleviating the global warming and energy crisis through carbon capture. He is utilizing the technique of microbial electro-synthesis to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide to biofuels/value added chemicals through bioelectrochemical systems (BES). He is also working on microbial fuel cells to harness the energy stored in chemical compounds into electrical energy by catalytic action of microorganisms. His work further includes characterization of the microbial communities using 16S rRNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR), denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and quantitative real time PCR. Moreover, Dr. Khan is also interested in the development of nanomaterials electrocatalysts with excellent redox properties to be used as sensors for emerging pollutants or target analytes (e.g. antibiotics, biochemicals etc) or electrode materials for energy storage devices (batteries and supercapacitors).

He has completed four major research projects funded by the DST, UGC, SERB and UPCST along with a industry sponsored project with a cumulative funding of over 90 Lakhs. He is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry as well as the American Chemical Society. He is a life member of the Chemical Research Society of India, Indian Council of Chemist and the Indian Science Congress. He is the member of the Water Science Forum of RSC too and Faculty Advisor of ACS International Chapter AMU Aligarh. Dr. Khan is also serving as  external referee of an Italian research funding agency (Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo). He is serving as Guest Editor and Editor (special issue) of Frontiers in Energy Research and Frontiers in Microbiology. He is also serving as reviewer of many international peer reviewed journals. He has recently been appointed as External Member of the Board of Studies, D/o Industrial Chemistry, Dr. A.H. University, AP.

Dr Khan has published more than 80 research papers including review articles and book chapters with internationally reputed publishers and delivered numerous lectures/invited talks in national and international conferences/workshops. In addition, he has edited two books on Modern Age Environmental Problems and Their Remediation using Applied Nanotechnology published by Springer. His work has received a total citations of around 3500 with h index of 34 and i10 index of 62. He has been granted an international patent while two Indian patents are in the publication stage. In one of his patents, he has developed a ternary nanocomposites based acetone sensor that can be used as a diagnostic tool for detection of diabetes by marking acetone produced during keto-acidosis.

Following is the list of few journals in which he has made his contribution-