Professor Rafiq Islam is currently the President of Emertec Research and Development Ltd. He formerly served as Canada’s first Killam Chair in Petroleum Engineering at Dalhousie University and first NRCan Professor at University of Regina. Dr. Islam is known as the most published engineer in the world. He has coined terms, such as ‘green petroleum’ and ‘sustainable petroleum development’, ‘economics of intangibles’, ‘zero waste engineering’, etc. His work has created a paradigm shift in a wide range of applications, spanning various disciplines. His most notable contribution is in the areas sustainability, environmental integrity, greening of petroleum and pharmaceutical industries, and knowledge modeling, on which topic he has written dozens of books and nearly 800 research papers. For last 2 years, Dr. Islam’s main focus has been the creation of World’s first Research University with global reach. This fully online University, to be called Nature Science University will be housed in Canada with affiliations from around the world.

Latest books :

1. Science of Climate Change: (2019) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119522850

2. Economically and Environmentally Sustainable Enhanced Oil Recovery (2020) https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Economically+and+Environmentally+Sustainable+Enhanced+Oil+Recovery-p-9781119479093

3. Petroleum Reservoir Simulations (2nd Edition) (2019): https://www.elsevier.com/books/petroleum-reservoir-simulation/abou-kassem/978-0-12-819150-7 4. Advanced Drilling Engineering (2020) https://www.elsevier.com/books/drilling-engineering/islam/978-0-12-820193-0 5.Sustainable Water Purification(2020) https://www.wiley.com/en-ca/Sustainable+Water+Purification-p-9781119650997

6. Sustainable petroleum reservoir development, 2021, https://www.elsevier.com/books/reservoir-development/islam/978-0-12-820053-7

7. The Greening of Pharmaceutical Engineering, vol. 4, Applications for Physical Ailment Treatments, 2022, https://scrivenerpublishing.com/cart/title.php?id=757