My work sits where reaction engineering meets systems analysis. The recurring question is not only whether a conversion route works in the laboratory, but whether it survives evaluation at process scale against cost, energy balance and environmental burden. That question is best asked while process alternatives are still open, which is why techno-economic and life cycle assessment run alongside the experimental work in my group rather than after it.

Principal Investigator — Integrated Concept for Converting Solid Waste to Energy (InConSolE), Bangladesh Energy and Power Research Council, 2018–2023. Progressed from laboratory kinetics to a pre-pilot demonstration presented at the International Conference on Polygeneration Strategies, Vienna.

Principal Investigator — Life cycle and techno-economic analyses of a multilayer packaging recycling supply chain, funded by Unilever Bangladesh through RISE, BUET, 2023–2024.

Co-Principal Investigator — Renewable Hydrogen Generation with Carbon Recycling from Biogenic Residues (ReHyCaRe), USAID, 2021–2024.

Co-Principal Investigator — Valorisation of bio-slurry from anaerobic digestion, RISE, BUET, 2022–2024.

Project Leader — Flash pyrolysis kinetics of Barapukuria coal, Committee for Advanced Studies and Research, BUET, 2017–2018.

Co-Project Leader — Competitive beam time award, Powder Diffraction Beamline, Australian Synchrotron.

Prof. M. Toufiq Reza, Florida Institute of Technology, USA. Hydrothermal processing and renewable hydrogen, through the ReHyCaRe project.

Prof. Chayan Kumer Saha. Anaerobic digestion and valorisation of biogenic residues.

Norsk institutt for luftforskning (NILU), Norway. Cost effectiveness assessment of dust control measures.

University of Leeds, United Kingdom, and the International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka. Value at the end of the sanitation value chain.