Professor Iqbal M. Mujtaba is a Professor of Computational Process Engineering and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IChemE and a Chartered Chemical Engineer. He is a world leader in batch distillation, wastewater treatment and desalination. He has developed process models for a range of processes that have delivered impact for many companies internationally, for example in oil separation, industrial scale desalination, fluid catalytic cracking, naphtha isomerisation, crude oil hydrotreating. He has managed several research collaborations and consultancy projects with industry and academic institutions in the UK, Italy, Hungary, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Qatar, South Africa, Iraq, Algeria, China, Libya, Jordan, Bangladesh, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. He has published over 430 technical papers and has delivered more than 80 invited lectures/seminars/plenaries/keynotes/short courses around the world. He has supervised 45 PhD students to completion and is currently supervising 9 PhD students. His recent world ranking (lifetime) in Desalination is 10 (out of 26).