Md. Ashraful Alam, PhD

Dr. Md. Asraful Alam is an Assis. Professor at School of Chemical Engineering & Energy, Zhengzhou University, China. Before he worked as a post doctorate research fellow for 2 years with Chinese Academy of Sciences Fellowship and additional 1 year as an Associate Researcher at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, China. Before he obtained his BSc from the department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering from the University of Development Alternative, Bangladesh and PhD with Chinese government fellowship from School of life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University of Technology, China. He received Professional degree in Biochemical Engineering from Cambridge University, UK, Wichita state University, USA, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China etc.

He has published 35 high impact SCI journal articles, 1 book, 5 book chapters in springer book.

He has obtained 3 patents for his discovery/new of method on biofuel development from biomass.

During his PhD research Dr. Alam establish and proposed a new innovative methodology for microalgae biomass harvesting from diluted medium without additional energy and chemical input which is known as environment friendly “Bio flocculation” method. He also discovered the mechanism of self-flocculation algae-based bio flocculation and associated polysaccharide molecule which is responsible for the sedimentation of microalgae. The research on discover associated gene for the flocculation is ongoing with his supervision with National funding from NSFC.

Dr. Alam is an editor of springer book titled “Microalgae Biotechnology for Development of Biofuel and Wastewater Treatment” and “Microalgae Biotechnology for Food, Health and High Value Products”. Dr. Alam has been working as reviewer in many top journals of his area was awarded top reviewer award from Bioresource Technology in 2017.

Dr. Alam presented his research projects more than 15 international conferences. In addition, he has participated in several national/international projects promoting biofuel and other high value commodity applications of microalgae & other biomass. Beside his research work in China, Dr. Alam is also working establish and enhancing research collaboration Bangladesh and Chinese research platform.

He loves working with basic questions and like to mentor the students and involving with Bangladesh Junior Academy of Science (BJAS) from its establishment to promote science education among school going students.