Chemical Engineering

Biography

Naveed Akhtar is a Chief Scientist at AFC Energy, UK. Naveed has spent nearly 15 years of his life in Hydrogen and Fuel Cell related activities, covering both Academic and Industrial research. Naveed holds multidisciplinary academic background, i.e., B.Eng in Mechanical (Pak), M.Sc. in Renewable Energy (Germany) and PhD in Chemical Engineering (UK). In 2004, he established Pakistan's First Hydrogen Energy Laboratory. Due to his continued interest in fuel cells, he has worked/trained in many countries including, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada, Netherland, UK etc. He is amongst one of the experts around the world who have the opportunity to work on almost all major kinds of fuel cells, i.e. SOFC, PEMFC, DMFC and AFC. During his PhD, he investigated the performance of micro-tubular solid oxide fuel cells under single-chamber conditions. His research on this topic has the honor of the first modelling and experimental studies ever published. Naveed holds various prestigious awards/fellowships such as Dorothy Hodgkin Award, Marie Curie Fellowship, UNESCO Fellowship, Grove Fuel Cell Symposium Student Bursary, Universitas 21 Scholarship, DAAD Scholarship etc. He has published over 28 papers in scientific journals/proceedings and has filed 11 patents out of which 10 are published, other pending approval. Naveed has received the honorary recommendation from President International Association of Hydrogen Energy. His biography has been published annually in 28th -33rd edition (2011-2016) of “Who’s Who in the World”. Naveed has received the "best scientific paper" award at the 2013 PEFC & H2 Forum-Switzerland, Europe's most respected fuel cell event. He was a Member of Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of the 5th European PEFC & H2 Forum which was held at Lucerne, Switzerland in July 2015. Naveed will serve again as SAC in the upcoming 6th European PEFC & H2 Forum to be held at Lucerne in 2017. Naveed is a member of several professional institutions, such as PVS, ASME, ECS, IAHE, MIET, AASCIT and an affiliate member of IChemE. He is editorial board member of American Journal of Energy and Power Engineering.

Research Interest

His research interest includes the performance of micro-tubular solid oxide fuel cells under single-chamber conditions