Dr. AKIL AHMAD, Ph.D. (ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY)
Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, University of Technology Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Research areas: Environmental Science · Environmental Engineering · Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal · Electrochemical sensors and biosensors · Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
About
Dr. Akil Ahmad is currently working at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia as Associate 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 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. He has published more than 200 research articles and chapters in the journals and publishers of international repute such as Scientific reports, Talanta, Chemical Engineering Journal, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Journal of Molecular Liquids etc. He has also edited more than Ten books of Springer, Elsevier, IGI Global Scientific Publishing etc. H-index and citation in Scopus are 44 and 7689 and in Google scholar, H-index and citation are 50 and 9932. He is guest editor of many reputed journal namely Adsorption Science and Technology-Hindawi, Polymers MDPI, Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry, Cosmetics, Forests and Journal of Chemistry, Hindawi.
Employment
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Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University Associate Professor2025 - Present
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Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University Assistant Professor2021 - Present
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Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Fellow Researcher2020 - 2021
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Universiti Sains Malaysia Teaching Fellow2018 - 2019
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University of KwaZulu-Natal NRF-Postdoctoral Fellow2016 - 2018
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Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Postdoctoral Fellow (UKM, UTM)2012 - 2016
Education
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