Dr. Shafiq Alam

Biography

Shafiq Alam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Biological Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan. He earned his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering in 1986 and worked as a Process Engineer at Shell Oil Company for six years. He was awarded a fellowship from the British Council to pursue his M.Eng. at Heriot-Watt University, UK. Alam obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from Saga University, Japan, between 1995 and 1998. He joined the hydrometallurgy group at the University of British Columbia as a postdoctoral fellow and was involved in a collaborative research project with Falconbridge Ltd. Following this, he conducted state-of-the-art research on nickel ore processing at the University of Toronto. His professional path includes a position as a hydrometallurgist at Process Research ORTECH Inc. in Mississauga, and he has held various fellowships, including the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship. As a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario and Newfoundland & Labrador, he has contributed significantly to the field with over 80 publications and has been involved in organizing numerous international conferences. Alam serves on the Executive Committee of the Hydrometallurgy Section of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum and is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Mining, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering.

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