Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker serves as the founder and Director General of Advanced Material Future Preparedness Taskforce (AMPT) — an international, public interest organization of over 20 country chapters, orchestrating the global use of Frontier & Advanced Materials to solve humanity’s most immediate challenges-.

Cinker is a globally recognized R&D Strategist, graphene commercialization expert and a system change advocate. She received a PhD in the field of Condensed Matter Ultrafast Spectroscopy from Vanderbilt university and has spent the past decade expediting the commercialization of Graphene and advanced materials from breakthrough to industrialization. She previously served as the Executive Director of the U.S. National Graphene Association, the main organization and body in North America of over 5,000 international members and organizations.