Higher Alcohols Production Platforms
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Hamid Amiri has a master’s in chemical engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran. He has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering-Biotechnology from Isfahan University of Technology. Since 2014, he has worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Isfahan in breaking the chemical and engineering barriers to the production of waste-based biofuels and value-added biochemicals by process design, integration, optimization, and analysis in the way of developing future biorefineries. He has published more than 30 papers on the topics of renewable energy, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, ABE fermentation, pretreatment of lignocellulose, and resource recovery. He has completed a number of funded research projects and played the leading role in the development of the Environmental Research Institute and Biotechnology Lab Complex in University of Isfahan. Meisam Tabatabaei is an Associate Professor of Environmental Biotechnology at the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia and is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Biofuel Research Journal (BRJ) in Canada. Over the last decade, Meisam has worked closely with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to promote waste-oriented biofuels in the developing world. Since 2016, he has been the lead collaborator of the Lancet Commission on Public Health and Climate Change (UCL, UK). He has published over 250 publications, including original research papers and reviews in journals such as The Lancet, Progress in Energy and Combustion Sciences, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. He is currently also a Visiting Professor at the Henan Agricultural University, China. He is a member of the advisory board for the journals Scientific Reports, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Data In Brief, and Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects. Meisam is the Associate Editor of Journal of Cleaner Production, Cleaner Environmental Systems, and Resources, Environment and Sustainability. Abdul-Sattar Nizami has a master’s in engineering from the Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. He has a Ph.D. in Sustainable Gaseous Biofuel from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland. Later, he worked at the University of Toronto, Canada as a Postdoctoral Fellow on alternative fuels, life cycle studies under the Institute for Sustainable Energy. He served the Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies (CEES) of King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, as an Assistant Professor and Head of Solid Waste Management Unit, and is currently an Associate Professor at the Sustainable Development Study Centre (SDSC), Government College University, Pakistan. He has published more than 100 papers on the topics of renewable energy, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, catalytic pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion, and resource recovery. Dr. Nizami is an Associate Editor in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy & Environment, and Frontiers in Energy Research. He is serving as an Editorial Board Member in Bioresource Technology Reports, and Energy Sources Part B.