Фарук Мухаммад Н

Dr. Muhammad Farooq is experienced professional with more than 15 years blended experience of research, teaching, training, industry and management of projects around the globe and visited more than 25 countries for different activities related to profession. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor and Director Postgraduate Research & leading an International multidisciplinary research group of Energy Environment and Sustainability Research (EESR) at the department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore Pakistan, with a team of 30+ researchers & international collaborators and supervising a number of M.Sc. and PhD students. He is the author of 100+ leading International journal articles with a cumulative impact factor of 500+ and advocating the world for net-zero and carbon natural activities for sustainable environments applications through SDGs. His work has been cited 2400+ according to Google Scholar with an H-index of 26. According to AD scientific Index ranking, he holds 9th Position among 644 Faculty Researchers of UET Lahore from 45 Departments of 5 different campuses. He is among the Top2% scientists according to the list issued by Stanford University, USA and Elsevier / Scopus in October 2023. As an Editor, he has handled more than 400 research articles of different journals and peer reviewed international conferences including Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (Impact factor 5.9), Frontiers in Energy Research (Impact factor 3.4), Sustainability Journal (Impact Factor: 3.8), Agriculture (Impact Factor: 3.2), Energy and Environment (Impact factor: 4.2). He is also Section Editor – Mechanical Engineering for UET Official Journal – Pakistan Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences. As a volunteer and recognized reviewer of leading international journals, he reviewed more than 300 research papers and received recognition awards from top-notch journals of Elsevier, Springer, SAGE Publishing, MDPI and Taylor & Francis group. He has received various highly competitive National and International grants including Pak-UK Education gateway fellowship (2023), Fellowship of National Slovak Program (2021), NRPU HEC competitive research grant (2021), Best Paper Award by Institute of Engineers (IEP) (20221), Pakistan, Faculty Research Grant UET Lahore (2019), British Council Alumni Award (2019), Neilson Research Award (2016), EU-CO2-TRIP Project funded by Marie Curie Actions IRSES for Clean Coal Energy Generation (2015), UK ADNET Research Travel Grant (2016), UK BBSRC (2015) and Faculty Development Scholarship (2013). He has conducted number of national and international trainings as resource person on different topics including Research paper writing for scientific journals, international scholarship opportunities around the world, Final Year design project, Continuous quality improvement in Engineering Education and CDIO techniques in Higher Education. He served regularly as chair of technical sessions, conference secretory, member of technical committees, organizer and invited keynote speaker in various world-renowned international conferences, summer schools and professional meetings related to Energy systems.