- Recipient of ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) Visiting International Fellowship, USA, 2023.
- Research grant from University of Padua, Seal of Excellence, May 2022 (Principal Investigator, Outgoing phase).
- Research grant from Higher Education Commission, Pakistan “Smart potable water harvesting grid for adaptive social capacity in varying humidity and insolation regions”, Oct 2022 (Co-Principal Investigator).
- Research grant from NED University for a project entitled “Urban Photobioreactor for climate change mitigation and biofuels production”, May 2022 (Co-Principal Investigator).
- Research grant from NED University for a project entitled “Co-gasification of municipal solid waste with biomass to produce syn-gas” June 2021 (Principal Investigator).
- Study on Water Availability Downstream of Kotri Barrage and Keenjhar, Lake Integrated Water Resources Management, World Bank, - 2019, (Project team member; Water Quality).
- Best research paper award by NED Alumni Association of Southern California, 2018 & 2019.
- Development of Water Supply and Sanitation Design Manual and Capacity Building of Public Health Engineering Department Staff, funded by UNICEF, 2018 (Focal Person).
- Funding from NED Alumni Association, USA for 03 undergraduate and postgraduate projects, 2017 & 2018.
- Travel grant from A.NERGY to present a research paper in A.NERGY 2017, Incheon National University, 18th to 20th October, 2017, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
- Research grant from Higher Education Commission, Pakistan for a project entitled “Role of water distribution systems in the enrichment of antimicrobial resistance”, 2017 (Co-Principal Investigator).
- Travel grants from Higher Education Commission, Pakistan to present research paper in the following events:
a. 9th International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment, 17 – 19 September 2018, Seville, Spain
b. WETPOL 2015 6th International Symposium on Wetland Pollutant Dynamics and Control and the Annual Conference of the Constructed Wetland Association, 13th to 18th September, 2015, York, UK
c. 14th IWA International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control (ICWS 2014), October 12-16, 2014, Shanghai, China
- Wastewater management at a gas field using constructed wetlands, Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), 2014, (Principal Investigator).
- Recipient of MFF fellowship award for attending six weeks integrated coastal management training in Thailand, 2014.
- Research grant from WWF-Pakistan for a research project entitled “Water quality and biodiversity of urban wetlands in Karachi”, 2013 (Principal Investigator).
- Solid waste management baseline study for Karachi, International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), - 2010 (Principal Investigator).
- Research grant from NED University for a project entitled “Application of solar disinfection for treatment of contaminated water”, 2010 (Principal Investigator).
- First prize for poster at the National Telford Institute Workshop on Sustainable Urban Water Management – Promoting Top Research at Scottish Universities, 2009.
- Funding from Edinburgh Development Trust to conduct research field trips in the British Isles, 2008.
- Awarded funding for molecular microbiological work, Irish Government Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government for Investigating Nutrients removal in Integrated Constructed Wetlands, 2008.
- Recipient of FEMS fellowship award for learning microbial techniques in Sweden, 2007.
- Higher Education Commission, Pakistan, PhD scholarship, Sep 2006.
- Recipient of financial assistantship from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for attending ten weeks group training course on “Heavy Metal & Other Hazardous Substance Pollution Control”, held at Osaka, Japan, 2005.
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