Dr Abul Kalam Azad is an Associate Professor of Chemical and Process Engineering at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He completed his PhD at Gothenburg University, Sweden, and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Uppsala University. He then worked as a research fellow at the University of St Andrews with Professor John Irvine to work on solid oxide fuel cells. He is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed journal publications, which have been cited more than 8000 times, with a h-index of 41.