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Environmental Biotech PhD | Scientific Writing | Sustainability Consulting | Wastewater, Biorefinery & Circular Economy
Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing
Technical Writing
Research
Market Research,
Feasibility Study,
Scientific and Technical Research
Consulting
Go-to-Market Strategy Consulting,
Scientific and Technical Consulting
Data & AI
Statistical Analysis,
Data Visualization,
Data Cleaning,
Data Processing,
Data Insights
Product Development
Product Evaluation,
Product Compliance
Work Experience
University of Technology Sydney
July 2023 - July 2026 
Technical Lead/Consultant
CO2CO Limited
August 2022 - August 2023
Visiting Research Fellow
Johns Hopkins University
January 2021 - January 2022
Education
Biotechnology
Johns Hopkins University and GC University Pakistan
September 2017 - December 2022
Certifications
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Early Program Lead
University of Technology Sydney
https://www.credly.com/badges/2c1f7315-e2ac-4ead-8caa-6c9b8a0e6f28/linked_in_profileSeptember 2025 - Present
Publications
BOOK CHAPTER
Sana Malik, Muhammad Nabeel Haider, Fatima Tahir, Syed Ghulam Musharraf, Farhat Jabeen (2024). Cost-Effective Cultivation of Cyanobacteria for Biotechnological Applications . Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Potential of Cyanobacteria.
Sana Malik, Muhammad Usman, Iqra Akbar, Liya Deng, Md Asraful Alam, Xu Jingliang (2024). Potential of Cyanobacterial Biomass as an Animal Feed . Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Potential of Cyanobacteria.
Shahid, M., Khurshid, M., Mehmood, M.A., Malik, S., Manzoor, I., Muhammad, S.(2022). Bacterial Contamination in Food Chain: Sources, Impact and Control . Climate Change and Ecosystems: Challenges to Sustainable Development. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 203-215.
Malik, S., Liu, C.-G., Zhao, X.-Q., Mehmood, M.A.(2019). Long-chain liquid biofuels . Comprehensive Biotechnology. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 101-109.
Sana Malik, Ayesha Shahid, Md. Asraful Alam, Nazia Nahid, Muhammad Aamer Mehmood(2019). The Culture Technology for Freshwater and Marine Microalgae . Microalgae Biotechnology for Development of Biofuel and Wastewater Treatment. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 21--44. Springer Singapore
Shahid, A., Malik, S., Alam, M.A., Nahid, N., Mehmood, M.A.(2019). The culture technology for freshwater and marine microalgae . Microalgae Biotechnology for Development of Biofuel and Wastewater Treatment. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 21-44.
Sana Malik, Ayesha Shahid, Aqib Zafar Khan, Tianzhong Liu, Ifrah Afzal, Muhammad A. Mehmood(2017). Production and Processing of Algal Biomass . Algae Based Polymers, Blends, and Composites. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 273--299. Elsevier
Shahid, A., Zafar Khan, A., Liu, T., Malik, S., Afzal, I., Mehmood, M.A.(2017). Production and Processing of Algal Biomass . Algae Based Polymers, Blends, and Composites: Chemistry, Biotechnology and Materials Science. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 273-299.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Usman, M., Khan, A.Z., Malik, S., Xiong, W., Lv, Y., Zhang, S., Zhao, A., Solovchenko, A.E., Alam, M.A., Alessa, A.H., et al.(2024). A novel integrated approach employing Desertifilum tharense BERC-3 for efficient wastewater valorization and recycling for developing peri-urban algae farming system . Chemosphere. 361.
Mehmood, M.A., Amin, M., Haq, M.A.U., Shahid, A., Malik, S., Siddiqui, A.J., Wang, N., Zhu, H., Rasul, A., Chaudhry, A.H., et al.(2024). Assessment of molecular and metabolic traits of a newly isolated Spirulina platensis BERC15 in a low-cost cultivation alternative for its use as functional food . Bioresource Technology Reports. 26.
Malik, Sana, Mehmood, Muhammad Aamer, Amin, Mahwish, Ul Haq, Muhammad Adnan, Shahid, Ayesha, Siddiqui, Amna Jabbar, Wang, Ning, Zhu, Hui, Rasul, Azhar, Chaudhry, Ahmed Hassan, et al. (2024). Assessment of molecular and metabolic traits of a newly isolated<i> Spirulina</i><i> platensis</i> BERC15 in a low-cost cultivation alternative for its use as functional food . Bioresource Technology Reports.
Malik, Sana, Tahir, Fatima, Ashfaq, Hira, Khan, Aqib Zafar, Amin, Mahwish, Akbar, Iqra, Malik, Hafiza Aroosa, Abdullah, Mohammed, Alessa, Abdulrahman H., Alsaigh, Ahmad A., et al. (2024). Emerging trends in algae farming on non-arable lands for resource reclamation, recycling, and mitigation of climate change-driven food security challenges . Reviews in Environmental Science and Biotechnology.
Malik, Sana, Aziz, Anbreen, Majeed, Farzana, Qaiser, Aasma, Siddique, Lubna, Fatima, Khadija (2024). Exploring Emotional Control and Emotional Fortitude among Preclinical Undergra-duate Medical Students: A Qualitative Study . Annals of King Edward Medical University.
Mehmood, M.A., Amin, M., Haider, M.N., Malik, S., Malik, H.A., Alam, M.A., Xu, J., Alessa, A.H., Khan, A.Z., Boopathy, R.(2024). Wastewater-Grown Algal Biomass as Carbon-neutral, Renewable, and Low Water Footprint Feedstock for Clean Energy and Bioplastics . Current Pollution Reports. 10. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 172-188.
Malik, Sana, Mehmood, Muhammad Aamer, Amin, Mahwish, Haider, Muhammad Nabeel, Malik, Hafiza Aroosa, Alam, Md. Asraful, Xu, Jingliang, Alessa, Abdulrahman H., Khan, Aqib Zafar, Boopathy, Raj (2024). Wastewater-Grown Algal Biomass as Carbon-neutral, Renewable, and Low Water Footprint Feedstock for Clean Energy and Bioplastics . Current Pollution Reports.
Khan, F., Malik, S., Shahid, A., Siddiqui, A.J., Musharraf, S.G., Zhu, H., Alkhattabi, N.A., Gull, M., Mehmood, M.A.(2023). Characterization of a newly isolated cyanobacterium Trichocoleus desertorum BERC08 as a potential feedstock for the algal biorefinery . Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. 13. (6). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 5283-5294.
Malik, Sana, Mumtaz, Saima, Baseer, Najma, Habib, Hamid, Waheed, Nazish, Saleem, Saima (2023). IMPACT OF PREEMPTIVE ANALGESIC REGIME ON THE RATS' ANESTHETIC RECOVERY PERIOD IN SOMATIC PAIN MODEL . Gomal Journal of Medical Sciences.
Haider, M.N., Khan, A.Z., Usman, M., Balakrishnan, D., Javed, M.R., Malik, S., Liu, C.-G., Mehmood, M.A., Ashraf, G.A.(2023). Impact of seasons and wastewater cultivation on the biomass and biodiesel production by the Plectonema terebrans BERC10 as a candidate for a multiproduct algal biorefinery . Fuel. 332.
Malik, Sana, Bhatia, Drishti, Jaiswar, Vinod Kumar, Saroha, Anil K. (2023). Treatment of Highly Alkaline Industrial Organic Raffinate Containing Pyridine and Its Derivatives by Coupling of Catalytic Wet Air Oxidation and Biological Processes . Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Malik, S., Shahid, A., Betenbaugh, M.J., Liu, C.-G., Mehmood, M.A.(2022). A novel wastewater-derived cascading algal biorefinery route for complete valorization of the biomass to biodiesel and value-added bioproducts . Energy Conversion and Management. 256.
Ratnasari, A., Syafiuddin, A., Boopathy, R., Malik, S., Aamer Mehmood, M., Amalia, R., Dwi Prastyo, D., Syamimi Zaidi, N.(2022). Advances in pretreatment technology for handling the palm oil mill effluent: Challenges and prospects . Bioresource Technology. 344.
Malik, S., Ashraf, M.U.F., Shahid, A., Javed, M.R., Khan, A.Z., Usman, M., Manivannan, A., Mehmood, M.A., Ashraf, G.A.(2022). Characterization of a newly isolated self-flocculating microalga Bracteacoccus pseudominor BERC09 and its evaluation as a candidate for a multiproduct algal biorefinery . Chemosphere. 304.
Malik, S., Shahid, A., Haider, M.N., Amin, M., Betenbaugh, M.J., Mehmood, M.A., Haq, M.A.U., Syafiuddin, A., Boopathy, R.(2022). Prospects of Multiproduct Algal Biorefineries Involving Cascading Processing of the Biomass Employing a Zero-Waste Approach . Current Pollution Reports. 8. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 147-158.
Malik, Sana, Zeb, Nida Gulzar, Zareen, Nusrat, Almutairi, Ahmed, Humayun, Farhat, Sheikh, Naseer-ud-din, Afzal, Kamran (2022). Students' and Faculty Perspective of Effective Feedback Analyzed in an Outcome Based Medical Education System of KSA . Annals Abbasi Shaheed Hospital & Karachi Medical & Dental College.
Khan, A.Z., Malik, S., Mehmood, M.A., Shahid, A., Shahzad, T., Zhao, X.-Q., Bai, F.-W., Liu, C.-G.(2022). Two-stage algal cultivation for the biotransformation of urban wastewater's pollutants into multiple bioproducts in a circular bioeconomy paradigm . Energy Conversion and Management. 273.
Shahid, A., Siddiqui, A.J., Musharraf, S.G., Liu, C.-G., Malik, S., Syafiuddin, A., Boopathy, R., Tarbiah, N.I., Gull, M., Mehmood, M.A.(2022). Untargeted metabolomics of the alkaliphilic cyanobacterium Plectonema terebrans elucidated novel stress-responsive metabolic modulations . Journal of Proteomics. 252.
Sana Malik, Ayesha Shahid, Chen-Guang Liu, Aqib Zafar Khan, Muhammad Zohaib Nawaz, Hui Zhu, Muhammad Aamer Mehmood (2021). Developing fourth-generation biofuels secreting microbial cell factories for enhanced productivity and efficient product recovery; a review . Fuel.
Sana Malik, Ayesha Shahid, Chen-Guang Liu, Syed Ghulam Musharraf, Amna Jabbar Siddiqui, Fahad Khan, Nesrin Ibrahim Tarbiah, Munazza Gull, Umer Rashid, Muhammad Aamer Mehmood (2021). Characterization of a newly isolated cyanobacterium Plectonema terebrans for biotransformation of the wastewater-derived nutrients to biofuel and high-value bioproducts . Journal of Water Process Engineering.
Shahid, A., Malik, S., Liu, C.-G., Musharraf, S.G., Siddiqui, A.J., Khan, F., Tarbiah, N.I., Gull, M., Rashid, U., Mehmood, M.A.(2021). Characterization of a newly isolated cyanobacterium Plectonema terebrans for biotransformation of the wastewater-derived nutrients to biofuel and high-value bioproducts . Journal of Water Process Engineering. 39.
Shahid, A., Khan, A.Z., Malik, S., Liu, C.-G., Mehmood, M.A., Syafiuddin, A., Wang, N., Zhu, H., Boopathy, R.(2021). Advances in Green Technologies for the Removal of Effluent Organic Matter from the Urban Wastewater . Current Pollution Reports. 7. (4). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 463-475.
Aamer Mehmood, M., Shahid, A., Malik, S., Wang, N., Rizwan Javed, M., Nabeel Haider, M., Verma, P., Umer Farooq Ashraf, M., Habib, N., Syafiuddin, A., et al.(2021). Advances in developing metabolically engineered microbial platforms to produce fourth-generation biofuels and high-value biochemicals . Bioresource Technology. 337.
Alshamrani, R., Arshad, M.H., Gull, M., Nawaz, M.Z., Malik, S.(2021). Identification of non-coding RNAs in the hyper thermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima MSB8 through comparative genomics and in-silico analyses . Asian Journal of Agriculture and Biology. 2022. (1). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1-9.
Shahid, A., Usman, M., Atta, Z., Musharraf, S.G., Malik, S., Elkamel, A., Shahid, M., Abdulhamid Alkhattabi, N., Gull, M., Mehmood, M.A.(2021). Impact of wastewater cultivation on pollutant removal, biomass production, metabolite biosynthesis, and carbon dioxide fixation of newly isolated cyanobacteria in a multiproduct biorefinery paradigm . Bioresource Technology. 333.
Malik, S., Shahid, A., Liu, C.-G., Zafar Khan, A., Nawaz, M.Z., Zhu, H., Mehmood, M.A.(2021). Developing fourth-generation biofuels secreting microbial cell factories for enhanced productivity and efficient product recovery; a review . Fuel. 298.
Sana Malik, Niaz Ahmad, Muhammad Aamer Mehmood (2020). Recombinant Protein Production in Microalgae: Emerging Trends . Protein & Peptide Letters.
Ahmad, N., Mehmood, M.A., Malik, S.(2020). Recombinant protein production in microalgae: Emerging trends . Protein and Peptide Letters. 27. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 105-110.
Shahid, A., Malik, S., Zhu, H., Xu, J., Nawaz, M.Z., Nawaz, S., Asraful Alam, M., Mehmood, M.A.(2020). Cultivating microalgae in wastewater for biomass production, pollutant removal, and atmospheric carbon mitigation; a review . Science of the Total Environment. 704.
Malik, S., Khan, F., Atta, Z., Habib, N., Haider, M.N., Wang, N., Alam, A., Jambi, E.J., Gull, M., Mehmood, M.A., et al.(2020). Microalgal flocculation: Global research progress and prospects for algal biorefinery . Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry. 67. (1). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 52-60.
Sana Malik, Ayesha Shahid, Muhammad Ishfaq, Muhammad Sajjad Ahmad, Muhammad Farooq, Zhu Hui, Ashwaq Hassan Batawi, Manal Esam Shafi, Akram Ahmed Aloqbi, Munazza Gull, et al.(2019). Bioenergy potential of the residual microalgal biomass produced in city wastewater assessed through pyrolysis, kinetics and thermodynamics study to design algal biorefinery . Bioresource Technology. 289. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 121701. Elsevier {BV}
Shahid, A., Ishfaq, M., Ahmad, M.S., Malik, S., Farooq, M., Hui, Z., Batawi, A.H., Shafi, M.E., Aloqbi, A.A., Gull, M., et al.(2019). Bioenergy potential of the residual microalgal biomass produced in city wastewater assessed through pyrolysis, kinetics and thermodynamics study to design algal biorefinery . Bioresource Technology. 289.
Sana Malik, Ifrah Afzal, Muhammad Sajjad Ahmad, Muhammad Ibrahim, Omar S. Al Ayed, Ghulam Qadir, Huda Al Doghaither, Munazza Gull(2018). Thermodynamics and Kinetics Parameters of Eichhornia crassipes Biomass for Bioenergy . Protein & Peptide Letters. 25. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 187--194. Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
Afzal, I., Ahmad, M.S., Malik, S., Ibrahim, M., Al Ayed, O.S., Qadir, G., Al Doghaither, H., Gull, M.(2018). Thermodynamics and Kinetics Parameters of Eichhornia crassipes Biomass for Bioenergy . Protein and peptide letters. 25. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 187-194.
Malik, S., Afzal, I., Mehmood, M.A., Al Doghaither, H., Rahimuddin, S.A., Gull, M., Nahid, N.(2018). Heterologous Synthesis and Recovery of Advanced Biofuels from Bacterial Cell Factories . Protein and peptide letters. 25. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 120-128.
Sana Malik, Muhammad Aamer Mehmood, Guangbin Ye, Huibo Luo, Chenguang Liu, Ifrah Afzal, Jianren Xu, Muhammad Sajjad Ahmad(2017). Pyrolysis and kinetic analyses of Camel grass ( Cymbopogon schoenanthus ) for bioenergy . Bioresource Technology. 228. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 18--24. Elsevier {BV}
Mehmood, M.A., Ye, G., Luo, H., Liu, C., Malik, S., Afzal, I., Xu, J., Ahmad, M.S.(2017). Pyrolysis and kinetic analyses of Camel grass (Cymbopogon schoenanthus) for bioenergy . Bioresource Technology. 228. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 18-24.
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