Iwan received his PhD in Engineering Design and Materials from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norwegia. Moreover, he joined Texas A&M University as Research Associate in Doha campus, Qatar, where he involved in research about metal dusting corrosion (collaboration with Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (Qatar), Lille University (Perancis) and Universite de Montreal (Canada). He then joined the University of Birmingham (UK) as Research Fellow. Dr Iwan worked in discrete computational modelling of twin-screw granulation research, collaborated with University of Sheffield (UK) and University of Surrey (UK).