Science and Technology Innovation for a Sustainable Economy

Over the years, he has gained vast experience in the computational simulation of a wide variety of materials having practical applications in daily lives through interdisciplinary research areas including (i) energy materials such as batteries, solar energy, (ii) investigation of photocatalytic activities of TiO2, (iii) materials for construction, transportation, power generation etc, and (iv) catalyst materials based on mesoporous oxides. He has got the expertise to teach many courses in Chemistry and Materials Science including Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Material Science, Solid State Chemistry, Energy materials for undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Dr. Islam has experienceas a mentor. So far, he has successfully guided three Postdocs, five PhD, one MSc and three BSc students. He has successful collaborations with many world-renowned research groups and has been successful in a number of funding applications.

Dr. Islam has been active for the initiation of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Department at Dhaka University since 2016. He has designed the following courses: Introduction to Computational Chemistry, Quantum Mechanics, Solid State Chemistry, Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces, Fundamentals of Nanomaterials, Energy (production, storage and conversion), Green Catalysis and Modern Computational Organic Chemistry. He has taught a course on Computational Chemistry for MSc students there in 2016-17.  

To date, Dr. Islam has achieved over 55 publications in internationally reputed peer-reviewed journals, published and edited 5 books and written 4 book chapters. He has presented his work as invited speaker, contributed speaker and poster presenter at many international conferences. Dr. Islam has shown strong leadership capacity as reflected by his leading role in the organization of few international conferences and workshops. He has organized 3 successful international conferences at the University of Bonn in 2011, 2012 and 2014 and two workshops in 2013 and 2016 in Berlin and one international conference in Dhaka Bangladesh on 30-31 October, 2018. 

Dr. Moazzem Hossain has taught environmental economics, development and trade in the Department of International Business and Asian Studies (currently, Business Strategy and Innovation), Griffith Business School at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia since 1990. Dr. Hossain's current research includes climate change issues in the Asia-Pacific, including the Bay of Bengal delta and Sundarbans region. He was visiting fellow in various European and US academic institutions including the University of London; University of Sussex; Univers