Speakers

Mohammed M. Farid

Place of Birth : Iraq
Born : 1949
Position : Professor (Personal Chair), University of Auckland, New Zealand
Field of study : Energy and Environment, Food Process Engineering, Water and Wastewater Treatment
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Professor Mohammed Farid has completed his BE in Chemical Engineering from the University of Baghdad, Iraq and ME and PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of Swansea, Wales in the UK.

He was the Founder of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Basrah in 1983, which he has chaired until 1991. Following that, he worked as a full professor in Jordan University of Science and Technology (1991-1993), University of Science Malaysia (1993-1997) and since 1997 in the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he is working as a Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering (Personal Chair).

He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, London and an active member of a number of international. He has published more than 380 papers in international journals and refereed international conferences, 6 patents, 5 books, and 11 chapters in books.

Farid has received a number of international awards such as the Matsumae International Fellowship from Japan (1986), the Hisham Hijjawi Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in Research in Jordan (1993) and the Marie Curie Fellowship, from European Union (2010). He was invited as a keynote speaker to a large number of international conferences worldwide; such as iFOOD2013 in Hannover. In 2015, he was awarded by the Association of Engineering and Food (IAEF) the “Lifetime Achievement Award. He is New Zealand representative of the International Institute for Engineering and Food. Farid is a world leader in research in energy storage and established strong international collaborations in the area with a significant funding aiming to commercialize some of his innovative ideas.