Dr Hasan Akhtar Zaidi is currently an Associate Professor at Aligarh Muslim University, Department of Chemical Engineering, India. He completed his higher education (B.Sc in Chemical Engineering & M.Tech in Petroleum Processing), including his   PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He was awarded an institute fellowship sponsored by MHRD at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, where he worked on Catalytic reaction engineering and alternative fuel development. He has published various research papers in national/international journals and conferences. So far, 9 students have finished their MTech degrees under his supervision, and one student is pursuing a PhD under his supervision. He is a member of several national & international professional /academic bodies.  He has reviewed various papers for many international journals, including Elsevier publications and the American Chemical Society. He was also invited for one year as an Assistant Foreign Professor in the School of Display and the Chemical Engineering Department at Yeungnam University in South Korea from 2008 to 2009. He won the 1st prize for the research paper “Deactivation studies on catalytic conversion of methanol to Hydrocarbons,” presented at Chemcon 2004 in Mumbai, India. He won the Best Paper Award for the research paper entitled “Kinetic Modelling Studies for Methanol Conversion to Hydrocarbons using MgO and CaO modified HZSM-5 catalysts”, presented during the 2nd International Conference on Engineering and Advancement in Technology, ICEAT -2021, India, 16-17th July 2021. His current research areas include Catalytic reaction engineering, Fuel and Energy, Clean coal technologies and Alternative fuel development.