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Academic Research Consultant | PhD in Soil & Environmental Sciences | Scientific Writing & Grant Proposal Expert

Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing Technical Writing
Work Experience

Enseignant-Chercheur

University of Le Havre Normandy (ULHN)

June 2026 - Present

Postdoc Fellow/Research Engineer

University of Le Havre Normandie

December 2024 - May 2026

Assistant Professor (visiting faculty member)

Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University

October 2023 - December 2024

Research Assistant (Part time)

A'Sharqiyah University

July 2022 - June 2023

Special Research Assistant

Institute of Hydrobiology Chinese Academy of Sciences Library

July 2020 - March 2021

Postdoc Fellow

Wuhan University School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering

March 2018 - April 2020

Assistant Professor (Visiting)

Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University

April 2017 - November 2017

Assistant Professor (IPFP)

Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University

April 2016 - April 2017

Quality Control Analyst

Jaffer Agro Services-Frertilizer Nutraful Division

October 2015 - January 2016

Junior Specialist

University of California Riverside Department of Environmental Sciences

March 2014 - May 2014

Associate in the Agricultural Experiment Station

University of California Riverside Department of Environmental Sciences

August 2013 - February 2014

Teaching Assistant Ship

University of Agriculture Faisalabad Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences

February 2012 - June 2012

Internee

District Office, Soil Conservation

July 2007 - September 2009

Internee

Ayub Agriculture Research Institute

March 2007 - July 2007

Education

Ph.D. (Soil and Environmental Sciences )

University of Agriculture Faisalabad Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences

October 2011 - December 2015

M.Sc.(Hons.) (Soil and Environmental Sciences )

University of Agriculture Faisalabad Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences

September 2009 - July 2011

B.Sc (Hons.) (Agriculture (Soil Science))

University of Agriculture Faisalabad Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences

December 2003 - July 2007

F.Sc./A’Level (Pre-medical)

Govt. Degree College Ali Pur District Muzaffar Garh

June 2000 - July 2002

Matric/O’Level (Science Group)

Govt. High School Thahim wala, Ali Pur District Muzaffar Garh

March 1998 - March 1999

Certifications
  • Application of methane production using common agriculture waste

    Lanzhou University, China

    October 2016 - Present

  • Agriculture, Economics and Nature,

    The University of Western Australia

    March 2015 - Present

  • Compliance & Conflict of Interest for Researcher Briefing (COIR),

    University of California, Riverside USA

    July 2014 - Present

  • UC Ethical Values and Conduct

    University of California, Riverside USA

    April 2014 - Present

  • Hazardous Waste Management

    University of California, Riverside USA

    February 2014 - Present

  • Confocal Microscopy

    University of California, Riverside USA

    November 2013 - Present

Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zulfiqar Ahmad, Motasem Y.D. Alazaiza, Ahmed Albahnasawi, Mohammed J.K. Bashir, Talal Al-Wahaibi, Mohammed Shadi S. Abujazar, Salem S. Abu Amr, Dia Eddin Nassani (2022). Potential use of algae for the bioremediation of different types of wastewater and contaminants: Production of bioproducts and biofuel for green circular economy . Journal of Environmental Management.
Zulfiqar Ahmad(2022). A hybrid machine learning approach of fuzzy-rough-k-nearest neighbor, latent semantic analysis, and ranker search for efficient disease diagnosis . Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems. 42. (3). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 2549--2563. {IOS} Press
Zulfiqar Ahmad(2022). Enterobacter sp. SWLC2 for biodegradation of chlorpyrifos in the aqueous medium: Modeling of the process using artificial neural network approaches . Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 193. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 106680. Elsevier {BV}
Zulfiqar Ahmad(2021). Optimization of biotic and abiotic factors liable for biodegradation of chlorpyrifos and their modeling using neural network approaches . Applied Soil Ecology. 166. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 103990. Elsevier {BV}
Xuezhi Zhang, Muhammad Imran, Hua Zhong, Shaista Andleeb, Rabail Zulekha, Guansheng Liu, Iftikhar Ahmad, Frederic Coulon, Zulfiqar Ahmad(2021). Production, functional stability, and effect of rhamnolipid biosurfactant from Klebsiella sp. on phenanthrene degradation in various medium systems . Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 207. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 111514. Elsevier {BV}
Ahmad, Z., Zhang, X., Imran, M., Zhong, H., Andleeb, S., Zulekha, R., Liu, G., Ahmad, I., Coulon, F.(2021). Production, functional stability, and effect of rhamnolipid biosurfactant from Klebsiella sp. on phenanthrene degradation in various medium systems . Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 207.
Andleeb, S., Bao, S., Ahmad, Z., Kumar Jha, S.(2021). A hybrid machine learning approach in modeling the impact of chromium concentration in blood and gonads on the concentration of the reproductive hormones of Urva auropunctatus . Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation. 174.
Zulfiqar Ahmad(2021). An Effective Feature Generation and Selection Approach for Lymph Disease Recognition . Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences. 129. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 567--594. Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press)
Zulfiqar Ahmad, Hua Zhong, Amir Mosavi, Mehreen Sadiq, Hira Saleem, Azeem Khalid, Shahid Mahmood, Narjes Nabipour (2020). Machine Learning Modeling of Aerobic Biodegradation for Azo Dyes and Hexavalent Chromium . Mathematics.
Zulfiqar Ahmad, Hua Zhong, Amir Mosavi, Mehreen Sadiq, Hira Saleem, Azeem Khalid, Shahid Mahmood, Narjes Nabipour (2020). Machine Learning Modeling of Aerobic Biodegradation for Azo Dyes and Hexavalent Chromium . Mathematics.
Zulfiqar Ahmad, Aqil Tariq, Iqra Riaz, Bisheng Yang, Muhammad Amin, Rukhsana Kausar, Shaista Andleeb, Muhammad Aslam Farooqi, Muhammad Rafiq(2020). Land surface temperature relation with normalized satellite indices for the estimation of spatio-temporal trends in temperature among various land use land cover classes of an arid Potohar region using Landsat data . Environmental Earth Sciences. 79. (1). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}
Tariq, A., Riaz, I., Ahmad, Z., Yang, B., Amin, M., Kausar, R., Andleeb, S., Farooqi, M.A., Rafiq, M.(2020). Land surface temperature relation with normalized satellite indices for the estimation of spatio-temporal trends in temperature among various land use land cover classes of an arid Potohar region using Landsat data . Environmental Earth Sciences. 79. (1).
Ahmad, Z., Zhong, H., Mosavi, A., Sadiq, M., Saleem, H., Khalid, A., Mahmood, S., Nabipour, N.(2020). Machine learning modeling of aerobic biodegradation for azo dyes and hexavalent chromium . Mathematics. 8. (6).
Zulfiqar Ahmad, Aumbreen Tayyab, Tariq Mahmood, Azeem Khalid, Samia Qadeer, Shahid Mahmood, Shaista Andleeb, Muzammil Anjum(2019). Anaerobic co-digestion of catering food waste utilizing Parthenium hysterophorus as co-substrate for biogas production . Biomass and Bioenergy. 124. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 74--82. Elsevier {BV}
Tayyab, A., Ahmad, Z., Mahmood, T., Khalid, A., Qadeer, S., Mahmood, S., Andleeb, S., Anjum, M.(2019). Anaerobic co-digestion of catering food waste utilizing Parthenium hysterophorus as co-substrate for biogas production . Biomass and Bioenergy. 124. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 74-82.
Jha, S.K., Ahmad, Z., Crowley, D.E.(2018). Fuzzy-genetic approaches for estimation of microbial rock phosphate solubilization in sandy clay loam textured soil . Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 150. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 125-133.
Jha, S.K., Ahmad, Z., Crowley, D.E.(2018). Fuzzy inference for soil microbial dynamics modeling in fluctuating ecological situations . Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems. 35. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1399-1406.
Jha, S.K., Ahmad, Z.(2018). Soil microbial dynamics prediction using machine learning regression methods . Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 147. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 158-165.
Jha, S.K., Ahmad, Z.(2017). Soil microbial dynamics modeling in fluctuating ecological situations by using subtractive clustering and fuzzy rule-based inference systems . CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences. 113. (4). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 443-459.
Ahmad, Z., Arshad, M., Crowley, D., Khoshnevisan, B., Yousefi, M., Imran, M., Hussain, S.(2016). Comparative efficacy of ANN and ANFIS models in estimating biosurfactant production produced by Klebseilla sp. FKOD36 . Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 30. (1). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 353-363.
Ahmad, Z., Crowley, D., Marina, N., Jha, S.Kr.(2016). Estimation of biosurfactant yield produced by Klebseilla sp. FKOD36 bacteria using artificial neural network approach . Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation. 81. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 163-173.