Professor Iqbal Mujtaba FREng

Professor of Computational Process Engineering, Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching & Quality, University of Bradford 

Professor Iqbal Mujtaba is a world leader in batch distillation, wastewater treatment and desalination and has authored several textbooks and edited books. In 2010, he led the reintroduction of chemical engineering to the University of Bradford. Professor Mujtaba has developed process models for a range of processes that have delivered impact for many companies internationally, for example in oil separation, industrial scale desalination, fluid catalytic cracking, naphtha isomerisation, crude oil hydrotreating, along with chlorination reactor and process for titanium dioxide production which radically improved production and reduced CO2 emissions. He has published over 370 technical papers and has supervised 43 PhD students to completion. Professor Mujtaba has delivered more than 75 invited lectures/plenaries/keynotes/seminars/short courses around the world. He has managed several research collaborations and consultancy projects with industries and academic institutions in the UK, Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Spain, Malaysia, Iraq, China, Libya, Qatar, Sudan, Egypt, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bahrain, Algeria, Thailand, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.