Special Issue in Honor of Professor Ahmad Fauzi Ismail

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue to honour Professor Ahmad Fauzi Ismail. Professor Ismail is the Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He is the Founding Director of Advanced Membrane Technology Research Centre (AMTEC), UTM.  Professor Ismail graduated with a B.Eng. (Petroleum Engineering) and M.Sc. in (Chemical Engineering) from UTM. He was awarded the Commonwealth Academic Staff Scholarship to pursue his Ph.D. in Chemical and Process Engineering at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK), specializing in Membrane Technology, and  completed his PhD study in less than three years in 1997.

Professor Ismail’s research focuses on the development of polymeric, inorganic and mixed matrix membranes for water desalination, waste water treatment, gas separation processes, fuel cell, palm oil refining, haemodialysis and smart optical fibre sensor. He also led a team of researchers and professional service teams who have secured research grants at the national and international levels of more than USD 15 million in total. He is the author of over 1000 papers in refereed journals and over 50 book chapters. He has authored or co-authored 6 books and edited or co-edited 11 books. He has supervised more than 70 PhD and 50 Master’s students, as well as having supervised 10 post-doctoral fellows.  He received more than 130 awards both at the National and International level.

Professor Ismail also serves as Editor for a number of reputable journals and sits in the Editorial Board of numerous reputable international journals. Professor Ismail served as the Chief Editor of Water Treatment and Desalination and Emergent Materials; Engineering Editor for The Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE); Advisory Board Members for Desalination, Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology and Journal of Membrane Science and Research; Editorial Board Members for Separation and Purification Technology, Journal of Membrane Water Treatment, Membranes and Jurnal Teknologi.

In honour of the significant career contributions by Prof. Ahmad Fauzi Ismail in the fields of membrane science and technology, this Special Issue of Membranes calls for the contributions, original research articles and review, related to this field.

Dr. Pei Sean Goh
Prof. Dr. Takeshi Matsuura
Dr. Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman
Guest Editors

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