Bangladeshi researcher listed among world’s top 2% scientists

Dr Tanveer is well known for researching waste materials-based energy producing wetland systems

Bangladeshi Scientis Dr Tanveer 2

Dr Tanveer Ferdous Saeed Courtesy

Tribune Desk

October 13, 2022

Dr Tanveer Ferdous Saeed, professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of University of Asia Pacific (UAP), has been listed among the world’s top 2% scientists in 2022 published by Stanford University and Elsevier.

He is one of the few scientists from Bangladesh who received this great acknowledgement.

Prof Tanveer is a well-known researcher in Bangladesh who developed waste materials-based energy-producing wetland systems and a novel septic tank (bioreactor septic tank) that could completely treat waste water produced from domestic/commercial facilities.

He also received prestigious grants from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-ITN Buet for waste water and human waste treatment. Apart from these, he was awarded both government and private funds for waste water treatment in Bangladesh that is becoming the most prominent environmental issue in the country.

Prof Tanveer is the associate fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences and the gold medalist of the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh.

He is now associated with some of the important and time-worthy research projects of Dhaka city.

Prof Tanveer joined as an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, UAP in May 2016 and was promoted to Professor in May 2019.

He is the pioneer in introducing constructed wetland systems in Bangladesh, to provide treatment of waste water and polluted surface waters. He published many papers in highly reputed international journals.