Professor Muhammad Azizul Islam
Muhammad Azizul Islam is a Professor in Sustainability Accounting & Transparency, Chair in Accountancy, and Director of Research for the Accounting Discipline at the University of Aberdeen Business School. Professor Islam previously worked at Khulna University, Dhaka University, RMIT University, Deakin University, and QUT. He held the esteemed position of Haskayne Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Calgary in 2016, and was honored as a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Gadjah Mada in 2014, as well as a visiting professor at the University of Indonesia in 2022. Professor Islam is a chartered accountant (CAANZ) and has served as an advisor and/or contributor to professional accounting bodies/federations, including CPA Australia and IFAC, as well as global transparency standard-setting bodies such as GRI and EITI.
Professor Islam teaches accounting courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. With a proven track record of leadership, he has held various positions over the past two decades, including Lead Research and Innovation at the Business School, Director of Accounting Research, HDR Program Director, Acting Head of Accounting Discipline, Accounting Programme Accreditation Lead and Faculty Ethics Advisor. His contributions to leadership in teaching, significant curriculum changes and program development have been recognized with awards for Excellence in Administration and Support as well as Team Teaching Excellence.
Professor Islam is widely recognised internationally as a leading sustainability accounting researcher. He investigates some of the specific sustainability accounting and transparency issues, including (but not limited to) corporate human rights measures, climate change accounting, social audit and corporate anti-bribery measures. His research has been funded by various organizations, including ACCA (UK), CPA (Australia), CAANZ, CSIRO/Data61, UK AHRC, and GCRF-Scottish Funding Council. Notably, he has received two prestigious grants (UK AHRC and GCRF-Scottish Funding Council) for two projects on corporate accountability in relation to modern slavery.
Professor Islam has received several awards for his research, including two Vice-Chancellor Excellence awards for his research project (2022) and research impact (2023), respectively. He was also a finalist for the Green Gown Award in association with UKRI for two consecutive years (2022, 2023), and he was a finalist for the Project of The Year category at the Times Higher Education Awards in 2023.
Professor Islam’s research appears in internationally recognised journals (ABDC A*/A, ABS 4*/3*, FT's top 50). His research findings attract widespread media attention and influence policy changes. His research-based opinions appear in BBC, The Guardian, Aljazeera, The Times, Sunday Post, Conversation, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Prothom Alo, IFAC-Gateway, Accountingweb and ICAEW feature articles.
Professor Islam is currently supervising four PhD and two post-doctoral candidates.
Dr Aniruddha Majumder
Dr Aniruddha Majumder is currently appointed as a Lecturer at the School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen. He received his PhD in 2011 from the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He then briefly worked as a Postdoctoral researcher on the simulation and optimization of post combustion CO2 capture at the same university in Singapore. In 2012, he moved to the UK and worked at the renowned crystallization research group of Professor Zoltan K Nagy at the Loughborough University, UK until 2014. In addition, he held the Visiting Researcher position at Purdue University for about two months. Dr Aniruddha Majumder’s main area of research is the modelling, simulation and optimization of crystallization processes. In recent years, his research is focused on continuous separation of enantiomorphs using crystallization process and simulation studies of bioreactors such as anaerobic digestion for the sustainable production of valuable chemicals.
Dr Majumder is currently serving as the Deputy Programme Leader for the UG Chemical Engineering at the University of Aberdeen. He is a member of the Editorial Board for the Chemical Engineering Research and Design (ChERD) journal published by the Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE).
