Experience

A career built on
engineering and leadership.

From teaching and research at UET Lahore to academic leadership and independent consultancy in London, my career has combined engineering practice, education, research and student development.

Career timeline
2005 — Present

Professional journey

Career timeline.

Teaching, departmental leadership, research and consultancy across academic and professional settings.

2024 – Present

Chemical Engineering Consultant

Self-employed · London

Feasibility studies, new-business set-up, process, materials, water-treatment and construction-materials consultancy for private clients and companies, plus one-to-one engineering guidance.

2024

Hourly Paid Lecturer, Engineering

University of Greenwich

Undergraduate engineering teaching.

Dec 2020 – Dec 2023

Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore

Professor from 2021. Led around 400 undergraduates, 50 postgraduates, 17 faculty and 12 staff.

Leadership and achievements

  • Secured industry funding from Pakistan Petroleum Limited for a Centre of Excellence for Research, Development and Training.
  • Set up a Quality Enhancement Cell, a smart classroom and a postgraduate research laboratory.
  • Created a need-based student endowment and alumni scholarships.
  • Launched industrial consultancy and testing services.
  • Signed industry and academic agreements with partners in Pakistan, Malaysia and Australia.
  • Founded the SPACE student society and wrote the department's 2022–2025 strategic plan.
  • Established a daycare centre at UET New Campus.
2015 – 2021

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

UET Lahore

Principal investigator on national research grants; convener of the Outcome-Based Education committee.

2011 – 2015

Assistant Professor, Chemical, Polymer and Composite Materials Engineering

UET KSK Campus

Teaching, curriculum development and research in polymers and composites.

2005 – 2011

Lecturer, Chemical Engineering

UET Lahore

Teaching and academic work, including doctoral study at Imperial College London (2008–2011), where I demonstrated Heat Transfer and laboratory practice, tutored Process Dynamics and Control, and volunteered at student recruitment and international welcome events.

2005 – 2023

Student guidance and placements

Advised more than 3,000 students on careers, industrial placements, scholarships and study abroad, and organised job fairs with industry.

Additional professional roles

Advisor, Uniguide Consultancy Services, and advisory board member, Scope Academy, Lahore.

Teaching experience

Courses taught.

Subjects taught across chemical engineering, process design, materials and energy.

01Process calculations
02Plant and process design
03Process dynamics and control
04Separation processes
05Reaction engineering
06Thermodynamics
07Transport phenomena
08Engineering mathematics
09Energy conservation
10Process economics
11Engineering materials
12Polymer science and rheology
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