| Dr. Shams Ali Baig is working at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (Pakistan) as Associate Professor and involved in intensive teaching and research in undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Baig completed his PhD in Environmental Engineering major from the College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, China. Over 67 SCI papers (both authored and co-authored) in different internationally peer-reviewed journals with cumulative impact factors of over 250 are in his credits so far. Earlier, he did MS degree in Sustainable Water Sanitation Health and Development major from COMSATS University, Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan and M.Sc in Environmental Sciences from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. Additionally, Dr. Baig attended two International Post Graduate Certificate Courses on sustainable sanitation and drinking water treatment in the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway and Chinese Academy of Sciences, China in 2009 and 2015, respectively.
Before joining academia after completing his PhD study, Dr. Baig worked over 6 years for different International NGOs including Oxfam GB (UK based), World Vision International (US based), Church World Services (US based), Save the Children (US based), Terre des Homes (Switzerland based) and Japan Emergency NGO (Japan based) in projects dealing with community-based drinking water, sanitation, public health (WASH) and Environment across Pakistan, which provided an opportunity to integrate the research component throughout the projects cycle to achieve the optimum benefits. The project based research findings have also been published in peer-reviewed journals, which helps researchers and development sector experts. During his professional career, Dr. Baig main responsibilities stretched widely and covered WASH and environment related problem assessment, project proposal writing, planning, assessment, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, follow up and final reporting to various donors including UNICEF, UNDP, WHO, ECHO, European Union, World Bank, DEC, JICA, GIZ and so on.
Dr. Baig primary research goal is concentrated to integrate multidisciplinary research approach to understand different drinking water, sanitation and environment related problems and propose implementable solutions in the changing climatic conditions. For this, Dr. Baig is equally comfortable discussing ideas with Engineers, Sociologist, Ecologist and Economist. In academia, Dr. Baig established strong collaborations with national and international practitioners and signed joint MoUs. Also, he is interested to carry multidisciplinary research on Environment (especially water and sanitation sector) and propose reliable approaches for sustainable development at community scale. For instance, Dr. Baig developed innovative household sand filter for the underprivileged communities using surface water for drinking and conducted intensive lab experiments to investigate the contaminants retention properties. And the same lab-tested household sand filter model was piloted in northern Pakistan and widely received community attention and successfully replicated in many areas in northern Pakistan. |
