Muhammad Bilal earned his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, specializing in bioengineering and applied biotechnology. His main research activities are oriented to Environmental biotechnology, nanotechnology, enzyme engineering, immobilization, chemical modifications, and industrial applications of microbial enzymes, liquid, and solid waste management – valorization of agro-industrial wastes and biomaterials for bioenergy. He was listed as a highly cited researcher (Clarivate) in 2021 and holds several "highly cited papers" in WOS. Dr. Bilal collaborates with researchers from TOP QS Universities, such as Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China), Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico), Nottingham Trent University (UK), Purdue University (USA), Tiradentes University (Brazil), Curtin University (Malaysia), University of Sfax (Tunisia), Khalifa University (UAE), University of Borås (Sweden), ICP-CSIC, C/ Marie Curie 2 (Spain) and University of the Punjab (Pakistan), among other international recognized research centers. He acts as a reviewer of international research agencies, such as Qatar University Internal Grants, the National Science Center, Poland, National Research Program for Universities, Pakistan, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. From 2023 to 2024, he was employed at the Department of Sanitary Engineering in the Nobelium project “Joining Gut Research Community” (DEC-44/2023/IDUB/I.1) at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland.

PhD degree (2014-2018)
Title of PhD thesis: Glycerol-glucose co-utilization strategies and genetic engineering of Pseudomonas chlororaphis GP72 for enhanced biosynthesis of phenazine-1-carboxylic acid.
School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
MPhil degree (2012-2014)
Title of MSc thesis: Catalytic efficiency and thermo-stability enhancement of fungal manganese peroxidase via different immobilization techniques for industrial applications
Department of Biochemistry, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan
MSc degree (2010-2012)
Title of MSc thesis: Utilization of newspaper waste for efficient bioethanol production through alkali and enzymatic delignification
Department of Biochemistry, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Bibliometric data from Scopus:
Author ID: 57316728100
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5388-3183
External links:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Muhammad_Bilal123, https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=&user=e_BWZHsAAAAJ, https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/muhammad-bilal77/, www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/880233, https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57316728100