Dr. Asim Ali Yaqoob received his doctor of philosophy in material chemistry from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim. Currently, he also worked as Incharge de Researcher at INRAE, PROSE Unit, 92160, Antony, France. Currently, he is serving at City of Oxford College OXFORD UK, while he is also Director of CHEMO SCIENCE BUNCH FORUM LIMITED UK. He has been working on a bioelectrochemical system to recover the value-added product from wastewater, coupled with renewable energy generation. His primary research interests are in material science, with applications to energy and the environment. He also extended the biomass-based material application to bioelectrochemical fuel cells. The objective is to convert the waste material into a value-added product through bioelectrochemical fuel cells to produce renewable energy for environmental applications such as methane production, hydrogen production, wastewater treatment
Dr. Akil Ahmad is currently working at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, as Assistant Professor in chemistry and having the experience of seven years as Research Fellow, Teaching Fellow, Postdoc and Visiting Researcher from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia. He has completed Ph.D. in analytical chemistry (2011) with the topic "Modification of resin for their use in the separation, preconcentration and determination of metal ions" from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India. His research interest is in the areas of environmental pollutants and their safe removal, synthesis of nanoparticles and nano-sorbents (GO, CNT), photo-degradation and antimicrobial effects, water and wastewater treatment, and adsorption and ion-exchange.
Dr. Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim obtained his B.Sc. (1994), M.Sc. (1997), and Ph.D. (1999) from Missouri S&T, USA. He is currently Professor of lignocellulosic materials at the School of Chemical Sciences (SCS), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, and has published more than 200 research articles throughout his twenty-four-year career at SCS USM. He has been granted fourteen patents for his R&D products/processes locally and internationally and received fourteen international awards for his research outputs. His main research areas are lignocellulosic materials, microbial fuel cells, electrode fabrication, biocomposite, and petroleum chemistry.