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Dr. Awanis serves as a senior lecturer in chemical engineering at University of Malaya since 2011. She started working at UM as a lecturer since November 2004.  Prior to that, she worked as a Plant Engineer in Hitachi Semiconductor Penang upon her completion of her bachelor degree sponsored by Monbusho Scholarship (Ministry of Education, Japan). She has a PhD from Imperial College London (2011), Masters in Environmental Biotechnology from University of Manchester (2004) and a Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering from Osaka University, Japan (2001). She pioneered membrane fabrication research using phase inversion process in UM since 2011. Dr Awanis is currently a committee member of MyMembrane society (Malaysia), member of the European Membrane Society and a member of the Board of Engineers Malaysia. She is also a Member of Insitute of Engineering and Technology, UK. Since 2011, Dr Awanis served in a number of administrative positions including; chemical engineering undergraduate program coordinator, faculty auditor and member of undergraduate curriculum review committee.

Her recent research activities include

1. Membrane fabrication and modification

2. Membrane technology and separation

3. Separation processes

4. Water and wastewater treatment using membranes

5. Carbon dioxide capture using a membrane gas absorption process.

Dr. Awanis has more than thirty published articles in ISI-indexed journals and she has presented many papers in national and international conferences and seminars.

She has received several international awards including the Malaysian Representative ASEAN-US Science prize for Women (2014), Hitachi Research Fellowship (2016) and Yamaguchi University Visiting Scholar (2019). Dr. Awanis has been extensively involved in 16 research projects, in which she has been the Principal Investigator for 12 internal and external grant worth of more than RM1 million. She is also an active reviewer of high impact factor journals such as Journal of Membrane Science and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.