Professor Ir. Dr. Shaliza Ibrahim
AAIBE Chair of Renewable Energy
Professor Ir. Dr. Shaliza Ibrahim is AAIBE Chair of Renewable Energy at the Institute of Sustainable Energy, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN). A distinguished chemical engineer and academic leader, she served for 36 years at Universiti Malaya, culminating in her appointment as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) before retiring in 2023.
Her academic and research career has been shaped by longstanding contributions in multiphase mixing and hydrodynamics, anaerobic bioprocess engineering, waste-to-resource conversion, and biohydrogen production. Her work has advanced sustainable pathways for converting organic waste streams into valuable energy carriers, supporting circular economy approaches and low-carbon energy systems. In her current role, she provides strategic leadership in renewable energy research spanning biofuels, biomass valorisation, biochar, green hydrogen, and enabling technologies contributing to Malaysia’s clean energy transition and resource sustainability agenda. She is Associate Editor for the *International Journal of Low Carbon Technology (IJLCT).*
Professor Shaliza is a Fellow and Council Member of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), where she co-chairs the Malaysia Open Science Alliance (MOSA). She serves as Malaysia’s Focal Point for UNESCO’s 2021 Recommendation on Open Science and leads the Erasmus+ Open Asia Project to advance open science practices in the region. She also chairs the Special Interest Group on Full Economic Costing (FEC) of research, contributing to efforts to strengthen research sustainability and improve institutional understanding of the true cost of research.
She serves as Sector Lead for Renewable Energy in the Malaysia Blue Economy Blueprint (MBEB), commissioned by the Ministry of Economy and coordinated by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia, contributing expertise at the intersection of sustainable energy, resource systems, and blue economy development. She also continues her academic engagement as Honorary Professor at the Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Universiti Malaya.
Her broader leadership contributions include serving as Founding President of the Malaysia Association of Research Managers and Administrators (MyRMA) upon its inception in 2019, reflecting her longstanding commitment to advancing research management and strengthening Malaysia’s research ecosystem. She is actively involved in capacity building to strengthen innovation ecosystems, including programmes on ideation and entrepreneurship, as well as initiatives aimed at professionalising research management in Malaysia.
She currently leads a Ministry of Higher Education-funded project on research performance assessment in Malaysia’s higher education institutions, through which her team has developed an impact assessment rubric to better evaluate research quality, outcomes, and societal contribution. She also serves on the International Science Council Forum on Research Assessment and Publishing Steering Group, contributing to international efforts on responsible research assessment and research publishing reform.
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