Dr. Shahryar Jafarinejad is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Tuskegee University (TU), United States, where he has also served as a Faculty Senate Member from 2019 to 2024. Before joining TU in 2018 as an Assistant Professor, he completed his postdoctoral research at the University of California, Irvine. He has taught Chemical Engineering courses at TU, the University of Tehran, the College of Environment, and the Technical and Vocational University (Iran) and supervised undergraduate and graduate students. He has published three books, several book chapters, and numerous peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and has also served as an Editorial Board Member and Reviewer of engineering journals. His research group focuses on green technologies and sustainable materials, energy and the environment, and applying nanotechnology and modeling and simulation tools to solve problems in chemical and environmental engineering. He has served as the Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI on several funded projects. He received the Henry C. McBay Faculty Research Fellowship from UNCF in 2020 and 2024 and the Outstanding Faculty Performance Award for Research and Teaching/Learning at TU in 2020 and 2022, respectively.