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Mohammad Mahbubul Hassan

Professor of Advanced Sustainable Materials

Fashion Textiles and Technology Institute

Orcid identifier0000-0002-4120-6094
  • Professor of Advanced Sustainable Materials
    Fashion Textiles and Technology Institute
  • University of the Arts London, Fashion, Textiles and Technology Institute, 20 John Prince's Street, London, W1G 0BJ, United Kingdom

BIO

I am a textile/chemical engineer with expertise in textile chemical process engineering and polymer processing. I have more than 26 years of academic and industrial research experience in sustainable textile and polymeric materials development, closed-loop textile process development, recycling and reuse of spent- dyebath, zero-effluent dyeing and finishing, dyeing and finishing of textiles under subcritical and supercritical media, synthesis of polymeric dyes and textile finishing agents, synthesis of metallic and polymeric nanoparticles for textile applications, wearable textiles, wound dressings, medical textiles, sustainable multifunctional textile development, polymer bio-composites and nanocomposites, polymer rheology, polymeric ceramics, carbon fiber from renewable resources, sustainable leather processing, and sustainable footwear production. I had a BSc in textile technology majoring in textile and polymer chemistry from the University of Dhaka and then completed my PhD in Textile Technology/Chemical Engineering in 1999 at the University of Manchester under a British Commonwealth scholarship. Before joining the Fashion, Textiles and Technology Institute (UAL), I worked as a senior scientist in the Bioproduct and Fiber Technology Team of the New Zealand Pastoral Agricultural Research Institute for 18 years and as a Lecturer in Polymer Science and Engineering at Yamagata University for two years. I have been working as an associate editor of RSC Advances (published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK) since 2015. I have reviewed more than 1000 articles submitted to more than 45 journals including Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, Chemical Engineering Journal, ACS Nano, and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON APPOINTMENTS

  • Professor in Advanced Sustainable Materials
    University of the Arts London, Fashion, Textiles and Technology Institute (FTTI), London, United Kingdom1 Dec 2021 - present
  • Member - Professoriate Committee
    University of the Arts London, London, United Kingdom1 Feb 2022 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • External Examiner
    University of Leeds, School of Design, Leeds, United Kingdom1 Mar 2022 - present
  • Lecturer (Senior Assistant professor)
    Yamagata University, Polymer Science and Engineering, Yonezawa, Japan1 Apr 2001 - 31 Mar 2003
  • Internal examiner for PhD
    University of the Arts London, Cosmetic Science, London, United Kingdom1 Jan 2024 - present

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Editor - RSC Advances
    Royal Society of Chemistry, London, United Kingdom1 Nov 2015 - present

DEGREES

  • PhD in Textile Science and Technology
    University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom1 Oct 1996 - 30 Sep 1999
  • BSc in Textile Technology
    University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh5 Nov 1987 - 31 Mar 1993

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Bengali
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

STAFF/STUDENT

  • Staff