Rate My Professor Hussein Znad

Associate Professor Hussein Znad is an academic in the Western Australia School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering at Curtin University. He serves as the founder and Chair of the Australia-Japan Network for Energy Transition and Critical Materials, fostering international collaboration in energy transition and critical minerals research. Znad is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Aquatic Plants published by Elsevier, and holds editorial board positions with journals such as Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and received the 2022 Curtin University Aspire Award. Additionally, he is the Western Australia Representative for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Alumni Association in Australia and serves on the executive committee for the World Renewable Energy Congress 2026 hosted in Australia. Znad chairs conferences including the 1st Annual WASM: MECE HDR Conference.

With over 20 years of experience, Hussein Znad's research specializations include microalgae and seaweeds cultivation, resources recovery, wastewater treatment, CO2 mitigation, and biofuels production. His work emphasizes sustainable technologies such as algal bioremediation for heavy metal-contaminated wastewater and advanced nano-conjugate adsorbents for pollutant removal. He has published more than 135 peer-reviewed papers, demonstrating substantial impact in the field. Key publications comprise 'Natural biodegradable polymeric bioadsorbents for efficient cationic dye encapsulation from wastewater' (2021), 'Organic–inorganic based nano-conjugate adsorbent for selective palladium (II) detection, separation and recovery' (2015), 'Sustainable toxic dyes removal with advanced materials for clean water production: A comprehensive review' (2022), 'A ligand anchored conjugate adsorbent for effective mercury (II) detection and removal from aqueous media' (2018), 'Synthesis a novel multilamellar mesoporous TiO2/ZSM-5 for photo-catalytic degradation of methyl orange dye in aqueous media' (2018), and 'The Utilization of Algae and Seaweed Biomass for Bioremediation of Heavy Metal-Contaminated Wastewater' (2022). These contributions highlight his influence on environmental chemical engineering and sustainable resource management.