Rafiqul Islam
Professor
University of Dhaka
Bangladesh
Biography
Dr. Rafiqul Islam was the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology of the University of Dhaka. He is a Professor and former Chairman of the Dept of Applied Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, University of Dhaka. He is the Director, Center for Climate Change Study. Dr. Islam did his Ph.D. from Azerbaijan Institute of Petro-Chemical Processes, Academy of Sciences in 1985. He became the Winner in the Moscow Olympiad of Young Scientists in 1984. Dr. Islam was a visiting Professor in many renowned universities of Asia and Europe and availed many prestigious Post-Doctoral Fellowships like Marie Curie Bursary by the Commission of the European Communities in Clausthal Technical University, Germany; UNESCO Fellowship in East China University of Science & Technology Shanghai; Alexander von Humboldt & Europe Research Fellowship in Stuttgart University, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, University of Geneva, Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands and Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship in the University of Nottingham, UK. Professor Islam made more than 70 publications in national & international journals on Energy & Environment related research. He is Member of several Professional Bodies in Bangladesh and abroad. He was the Organizing Secretary of Bangladesh Chemical Society and Vice-Chairman of Bangladesh International Chemical Congress of 2008 and 2012. Prof Islam was appointed as First Ambassador Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Germany in Bangladesh for two terms until 2016 and was the country Adviser for the DelPHE (Development Partnership for Higher Education), UK. He is also the First President of the Bangladesh Association of Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows and the elected President of the Alumni Association of German Universities in Bangladesh..
Research Interest
His research interest includes energy efficiency improvement and CO2 emission reduction, technology of processing fossil fuels, water treatment and environmental pollution, membrane and nano-technology, climate change mitigation.