Dr. Md. Wasikur Rahman received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh in 2003. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences from the University of Turin (UNITO), Italy in 2010. He has experience in teaching, research and administration. He is currently serving as Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of Jashore University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh since September 2023. Prior to this, he joined in the university as Lecturer in 2011 and then promoted to Assistant professor in 2012 and Associate Professor in 2017. He launched his professional career as Assistant Engineer in Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation in 2005.

Dr. Rahman has seventeen (17) years of research and teaching experience in USA, Italy, Malaysia and Bangladesh. He is currently serving at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), United States as an Assistant Research Scientist. He served in the Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering of Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) as Postdoctoral fellow in 2014-2015. During his fellowship at UMP and UNITO, he actively participated in various research projects as guidance of PhD and graduate students. Currently he is supervising eleven (11) research students of different academic levels and supervised around thirty (30) students in the past. At present he has accomplished research expertise in hydrogen storage technology, natural and synthetic polymers; nanomaterials development, characterization and their potential applications in separation processes related to energy, water treatment and waste management towards smart and cleaner environment. He has received research grants (approximately BDT 6 Million) from the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS), Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), University Grants Commission (UGC), internal allocation from the university (JUST) of the country.

Dr. Rahman has authored/co-authored of more than fifty (50) papers in peer reviewed journals and forty (40) proceeding papers. He delivered keynote speeches in India in International Conference on Advanced Material Technologies (ICAMT)- 2016 and International Conference on Materials, Alloys and Experimental Mechanics (ICMAEM)- 2017. He has presented his research work at various national and international conferences and exhibitions (Italy, Spain, Norway, Slovenia, Singapore, Malaysia and India) and received recognition in the form of awards, medals and appreciations. He acquired Silver award in the competition of CITREX- 2015 (Creation, Innovation, Technology & Research Exposition) at UMP.

Dr. Rahman has served as an invited reviewer for a number of international journals including AIChE Journal, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Desalination and Water Treatment, Composites Part B, Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, Journal of Biophotonics, Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization, etc. In total, he has reviewed more than twenty (20) manuscripts from the journals mentioned above. He is a member of Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB).

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DR. MD. WASIKUR RAHMAN

DR. MD. WASIKUR RAHMAN

Dept. of Chemical Engineering

Jashore University of Science and Technology

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