Ahmad. A

About

Dr. Ashfaq Ahmad works as a research scientist in the Department of Biology and Chemical Engineering at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University Teknologi Petronas (UTP), Malaysia, and his B.S. (Hons.) in Biotechnology from the Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology (SUIT) in Pakistan. He worked as a teaching assistant and researcher at UTP throughout his MSc and Ph.D. studies. He also worked as a Research Advisor (Research and Development) at the Nan Yang Academy of Science in Singapore. His research interests include microalgal biotechnology and engineering for bioenergy production, environmental remediation, industrial wastewater treatment and the production of high-value biochemicals. He has also worked in the fields of microalgae as feed for aquaculture, biorefinery approaches for biomass valorization, food waste fermentation for lactic acid production, and its catalytic conversion into polylactic acid polymers for bioplastics and biomedical applications. Dr. Ahmad has published more than 45 peer-reviewed journal articles in highly reputed scientific journals and participated in several international conferences. He has authored or co-authored several book chapters and published one Elsevier book as the lead editor.

Employment

• Khalifa University of Science and Technology Research Scientist
  2023 - Present
• Khalifa University - Sas Al Nakhl Campus Libraries Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  2019 - Present

Education

• Universiti Teknologi Petronas PHD in Chemical Engineering
  2014 - 2018

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (142)

• Efficient cultivation and scale-up of marine microalgae Fistulifera peliculosa and Nannochloropsis oculata for sustainable aquaculture applications
  Chemical Engineering Journal Advances 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceja.2025.100720
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• Biological effects of culture medium on Tetraselmis chuii and Dunaliella tertiolecta: Implications for emerging pollutants degradation
  Chemosphere 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142868
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• An overview of biodegradable poly (lactic acid) production from fermentative lactic acid for biomedical and bioplastic applications
  Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s13399-022-02581-3
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• Recent breakthroughs in integrated biomolecular and biotechnological approaches for enhanced lipid and carotenoid production from microalgae
  Phytochemistry Reviews 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s11101-022-09804-5
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• Enhanced short-chain carboxylic acids yield in dark fermentation by cyclic product removal
  Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s13399-020-01010-7
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• Enhanced lactic acid production from food waste in dark fermentation with indigenous microbiota
  Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s13399-020-00801-2
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• An overview of microalgae biomass as a sustainable aquaculture feed ingredient: food security and circular economy
  Bioengineered 2022 DOI: 10.1080/21655979.2022.2061148
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• Polymerization of lactic acid produced from food waste by metal oxide-assisted dark fermentation
  Environmental Technology & Innovation 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.eti.2021.101862
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• Lactic acid recovery from date pulp waste fermentation broth by ions exchange resins
  Environmental Technology & Innovation 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.eti.2021.101438
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• Comparative study of lactic acid production from date pulp waste by batch and cyclic–mode dark fermentation
  Waste Management 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2020.10.029
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