Dr. Mehmood Ali

Honors, Awards and Training

HONORS AND AWARDS

  1. Awardee of Million in Pak Rs.0.855 for an Independent Research Project titled ‘Urban photobioreactor for climate change mitigation and biofuels production’ by Advanced Studies & Research Board, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan. (May 2022- Feb 2023). (Principal Investigator)
  2. Awardee of Million in Pak Rs.0.782 for an Independent Research Project titled ‘Co-gasification of municipal solid waste (MSW) with biomass to produce syn gas’ by Advanced Studies & Research Board, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan. (August 2021- July 2022). (Principal Co- Investigator)
  3. Awardee of Million in Pak Rs. 1.344 for a research project titled "Solar biomass dryer to enhance calorific value of crop residues" from Higher Education Commission of Pakistan under National Research Program for Universities (NRPU No: 7646/Sindh/ NRPU/R&D/HEC/ 2017) (March 2019 – September 2020) (Principal Investigator) 
  4. Recipient of travel grant Million in Pak Rs. 0.150 from NED University to attend 21st International Conference on Biomass, Bioenergy, Biofuels and Bioproducts. (January 2019, Singapore).
  5. Recipient of (Euro €1500) from BRISK (Biofuel’s research infrastructure for sharing knowledge) consortium under EU’s 7th Framework at the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department (Thermo-chemical Research Group, Aragon Institute of Engineering Research), University of Zaragoza, Spain. (January 2015). 
  6. Recipient of funding (£ 64500) for PhD scholarship under the Faculty Development Programme from NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan. (July 2011- August 2015).

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAININGS ATTENDED

  • Participation in three days ‘Faculty Boot Camp’ (Effective Teaching, Learning, Research and Mentoring) organized at Mehran University Jamshoro by University of Utah, USA (August, 2019). 
  • Attended hands-on training session on Gas chromatography, Atomic absorption spectrometry, High performance liquid chromatography and Thermal analysis system (TGA/DSC) at the Industrial Analytical Center (HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry), University of Karachi, Pakistan (July 2016).
  • Attended lectures and hands-on training session on Gas chromatography, Atomic absorption spectrometry, High performance liquid chromatography and Thermal analysis system (TGA/DSC) at the Centralized Resource Laboratory, University of Peshawar, Pakistan, (March 2016).