Faculty Naim Rashid

Naim Rashid

Associate Professor
  • Military College of Engineering
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Summary

Dr. Naim received a Ph.D. in Civil Environmental Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea. He worked as a Fulbright Research Scholar at the School of Sustainable Engineering and Built Environment, Arizona State University, and the University of California, the USA, as a researcher at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation. He has >09 years of experience as Assistant Professor at Quaid-e-Azam University and COMSATS University Islamabad. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Water Resources Engineering and Management, NUST. His research focus is on water and wastewater treatment, sustainable energy production (bio-energy focus), carbon capture, and life cycle assessment studies. He published 55 articles in top tier (Q, Q2) journals, 05 book chapters contributing to >4000 citations, and an h-index of 31. Dr. Rashid has published an article (non-technical) in a highly reputed SCIENCE journal. He is listed among the top 2% of scientists in the world. He is the recipient of (1). Fulbright scholar award, USA (2). International Green Talent Award, Germany (3). Global Young Academy Fellowship (4). Erasmus Mundus Scholarship award for Ph.D. studies (did not opt) (5). HEC Overseas Scholarship award

Academic Background
PhD (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology August 16, 2010 - August 16, 2013
Honours and Awards
Publications
Evaluation of cell disruption methods for protein and coenzyme Q10 quantification in purple non-sulfur bacteria March 07, 2024 Ojima Z Wada, Naim Rashid, Patrick Wijten, Paul Thornalley, Gordon Mckay, Hamish R Mackey, Frontiers in Microbiology - Volume:15, Pages: 12
Simultaneous treatment of fruit juice industry wastewater and single-cell protein synthesis using purple non-sulfur bacteria December 29, 2023 Naim Rashid, Mirna N. A. Abdelnabi, Annette Shoba Vincent3, Hamish Mackey, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery - Volume 13, Pages 16321-16332
Carica papaya Crude Extracts Are an Efficient Source of Environmentally Friendly Biogenic Synthesizers of Silver Nanoparticles December 07, 2023 Ghulam Zahara Jahangir, Tayyabah Anjum, Naim Rashid, Madeha Sadiq, Rida Farooq, Mubeen Akhtar, Sana Hussain, Anwaar Iftikhar, Muhammad Zafar Saleem, Rehan Sadiq Shaikh, Sustainability - Volume 15(24), Article Number 16633
Effect of nutrients deficiency on biofilm formation and single cell protein production with a purple non-sulphur bacteria enriched culture December 01, 2023 S. Shaikh, Naim Rashid, U. Onwusogh, Gordon Mckay, Hamish R. Mackey, Biofilm - Volume 5, Article Number 100098
Photobioreactor Design for Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production Using Anoxygenic Photoheterotrophs: A Review August 21, 2023 Sultan Shaikh, Naim Rashid, Gordon McKay, Gordon McKay, Fermentation - Volume 9, Issue 8, Article Number 778
Experimental and mathematical nonlinear rheological characterization of chicken fat oil-a sustainable feedstock for biodiesel June 10, 2023 Abrar Faisal, Fahed Javed, Mohsan Hassan, M. R. Gorji3, Sarfaraz Akram, Naim Rashid, Fahad Rehman, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery - Volume 13, Issue 8, Pages 7043-7050
Integration of Real Industrial Wastewater Streams to Enhance Chlorella vulgaris Growth: Nutrient Sequestration and Biomass Production February 25, 2023 Fahed Javed, Naim Rashid, Tahir Fazal, Ainy Hafeez, Fahad Rehman, Water Air and Soil Pollution - Volume 234, Issue 3, Article Number 164
A review of waste management approaches to maximise sustainable value of waste from the oil and gas industry and potential for the State of Qatar January 15, 2023 Muhammad Shahbaz, Naim Rashid, Junaid Saleem, Hamish Mackey, Gordon McKay, Tareq Al-Ansari, Fuel - Volume 332, Part 2, Article Number 126220
Nitrogen influence on suspended vs biofilm growth and resource recovery potential of purple non-sulfur bacteria treating fuel synthesis wastewater January 01, 2023 Sultan Shaikh, Naim Rashid, Gordon McKay, Albert Liberski, Hamish Mackey, Biochemical Engineering Journal - Volume 190, Article Number 108754
Green synthesis of biodiesel from microalgae cultivated in industrial wastewater via microbubble induced esterification using bio-MOF-based heterogeneous catalyst January 01, 2023 Fahed Javed, William B. Zimmerman, Tahir Fazald, Ainy Hafeez, Maria Mustafa, Naim Rashid, Fahad Rehman, Chemical Engineering Research and Design - Volume 189, Pages 707-720
Let’s talk about authorship September 30, 2022 Naim Rashid, Science, ISSN:0036-8075, eISSN:1095-9203, Volume: 356, Issue: 6338, Pages: 591-591, Published: 12 May 2017 - Volume 377, Issue 6614, Pages 1574-1575
Conferences
Researcher Hamad bin Khalifa University September 14, 2019 - January 31, 2023
Fulbright Scholar Arizona State University September 26, 2016 - September 27, 2017
Senior Researcher University of Leipzig March 06, 2016 - June 06, 2016
Assistant Professor Quaid e Azam University May 22, 2015 - August 15, 2015
Assistant Professor COMSATS University January 12, 2009 - January 25, 2021