DR. FAUZIAH SHAHUL HAMID

Areas of Expertise

Solid waste management (landfill management, leachate treatment technology, marine debris, microplastics) Zero-discharge Technologies; Water and Wastewater Treatment Technology; Soil Bioremediation (Toxicity, leachate pollution, bioaugmentation, landfill post closure) Environmental Microbiology (Leachate remediation, organic waste treatment)

Brief Bio

Dr Fauziah has been researching on the waste management area for more than 15 years, focussing on the municipal solid waste management. Her current research interest covers the investigation on marine debris and microplastics. Her bioremediation work on microplastics degradation is among the earliest published research, utilizing the indigenous microbes isolated from mangrove ecosystem. She has published her work in reputable journals and proceedings. She also has presented in various international conferences and seminars. Her expertise in waste management has also being acknowledged by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Malaysia, with the appointment as Technical Advisor for the National Department of Solid Waste Management. She also has organized ISWA Summer School focusing on waste management, in 2013 and 2015.

Her PhD research on “Comprehensive Studies on Municipal Solid Waste Management in Selangor, Malaysia”, has been referred to as one of the earlier comprehensive research on municipal solid waste management sector. She joins the Universiti Malaya in 2007, while completing her PhD work, as Lecturer. She was then promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2013, and Associate Professor in 2018. She lectures on Waste Management, Hazardous Waste Technologies and Management, Environmental Ethics, Policy and Law, and Green Technology and Pollution Prevention. She is also involved in the E-learning program between Kyoto University, Tsinghua University and Universiti Malaya. Currently, she heads the Center for Research in Waste Management in Universiti Malaya and has been consulted by various agencies including the Department of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture, Malaysia. She and her team have published the Technical Report on Abundance and Distribution of Marine Litter in Marine Park Islands in Malaysia, as the guideline for the management of waste in Malaysian Marine Parks.

She was awarded with Talented Young Scientist Programme in 2018, by Ministry of Science and Technology, PR China, and she has been collaborating with several universities in China. Aside from Chinese collaborators, Dr Fauziah also has been collaborating research on waste management with counterparts from the UK, Denmark, Brazil, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, and Japan.

Publications (Weblink only), if any:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X21002927

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0141113621000453

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0956053X20305493

https://europepmc.org/article/MED/26092255