Professor
Full Time Faculty

Dr. Nehreen Majed

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
M. Sc. in Civil Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh

Phone: +880-2-55668200 Ext: 6238
Email: nehreen.majed@northsouth.edu
Office: SAC 727

Curriculum Vitae :
About

Dr. Nehreen Majed is currently serving as a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DCEE) at North South University (NSU). She was previously serving as a Professor and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Asia Pacific (UAP) while she also held Associate Professor and Assistant Professor positions serving for almost 11 years at UAP. Prior to that, she worked as an Assistant Professor at North South University (NSU) in Dhaka during 2012-2013 at the Department of Environment Science and Management while contributing to the launching of DCEE at NSU.

Dr. Nehreen has completed her BSc in Civil Engineering in 2003 and MSc in Environmental Engineering in 2005 from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).  She worked as a research officer at ITN-BUET until 2005 working in the water supply and sanitation sector in Bangladesh.  Then she completed her PhD in 2011 from Northeastern University at Boston, USA specializing in Environmental Engineering. Her fields of expertise encompass water quality assessment and control, water and wastewater treatment, biological nutrient removal and impact assessment.

Dr. Nehreen received multiple in-house research grants at UAP working on Environmental Engineering field including spatial and temporal variation of river water quality, waste loads from outfall discharge, evaluation of industrial effluent treatments plants, Life Cycle Assessment, uptake and bio-accumulation of environmental contaminants, sustainable practices of waste management etc. She authored publications in peer-reviewed journals like Environmental Science and Technology, Current Opinions in Biotechnology, Water Research, Water Science and Technology, Water Environment Research, Frontiers in Environmental Science, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment and also in peer-reviewed conference proceedings.

Dr. Nehreen actively participates in the implementation of the Outcome Based Education (OBE) across the country while serving as a certified evaluator of Board of Accreditation of Engineering and Technical Education (BAETE), Bangladesh for accreditation of BSc Engineering Programs. She also received project grant from Bangladesh Accreditation Council (BAC) which evaluated the status of OBE implementation in Bangladesh. Dr. Nehreen is a registered scrum master (RSM) by Scrum Inc. (USA) and a research partner at Agile in Education USA. She implements Agile Scrum instructional concepts in Engineering courses which she presented in multiple national and international conferences. As a passionate educator, Dr. Nehreen aims to bring positive and innovative changes in the techniques of Engineering and Science based knowledge dissemination.

Selected Publications

Majed, N., Yan, Y., Onnis‐Hayden, A., Li, G., & Gu, A. Z. (2025). Elucidating the factors that impact the abundance of aerobic and denitrifying polyphosphate‐accumulating organisms in an integrated fixed film activated sludge‐enhanced biological phosphorus removal process. Water Environment Research, 97(5), e70058.

 

Majed, N., Wang, Z., Baldwin, M. T., Uddin, S. M. F., Dash, P., & Gu, A. Z. (2025). Advancements in phosphorus species profiling and bioavailability assessment with implications for phosphorus sustainability. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 93, 103295.

 

Majed, N., Ara, A., & Chowdhury, S. R. (2024). Meeting the Challenges of Online Education during Covid-19 Pandemic: Implications for Blended Learning. Shanlax International Journal of Education, 12(2), 20–31.

 

Rashid, E and Majed, N. (2023). Integrated life cycle sustainability assessment of the electricity generation sector in Bangladesh: Towards sustainable electricity generation. Energy Reports, 10, 3993 – 4012

 

Majed, N., Ara, A. & Chowdhury, S. R. (2023). Student Perception of Virtual Mode of Education at the Tertiary Level: A Case Study from Bangladesh. Journal of Bangladesh Studies, Vol 25, No. 1 ISSN 1529-0905 

 

Halder, A., & Majed, N. (2023). The effects of unplanned land use and heavy seasonal rainfall on the storm-water drainage in Dhaka metropolitan city of Bangladesh. Urban Water Journal, 1-16.

 

Alam, M. K., Islam, M. A. S., Saeed, T., Rahman, S. M., & Majed, N. (2023). Life Cycle Analysis of Lab-Scale Constructed Wetlands for the Treatment of Industrial Wastewater and Landfill Leachate from Municipal Solid Waste: A Comparative Assessment. Water, 15(5), 909.

 

Islam, M. A. S., Hossain, M. E., Nahar, K., & Majed, N. (2023). Assessment of Environmental Hazard and Heavy Metal Contamination in Dhaleshwari River Sediment: A Toxicity based Study on Pollution. Pollution, 9(1), 67-83.

 

Islam, M., Sadikul, A., Saeed, T., & Majed, N. (2022). Role of constructed wetlands in mitigating the challenges of industrial growth and climate change impacts in the context of developing countries. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, 2328.

 

Majed, N., Islam, M. A. S. (2022). Contaminant Discharge from Outfalls and Subsequent Aquatic Ecological Risks in The River Systems in Dhaka City: Extent of Waste Load Contribution in Pollution. Frontiers in Public Health, 1094.

 

Saeed, T., Majed, N., Miah, M. J., & Yadav, A. K. (2022). A comparative landfill leachate treatment performance in normal and electrodes integrated hybrid constructed wetlands under unstable pollutant loadings. Science of The Total Environment, 155942.

 

Islam, M. A. S, Hossain, M. E., & Majed, N. (2021). Assessment of Physicochemical Properties and Comparative Pollution Status of the Dhaleshwari River in Bangladesh. Earth (MDPI), 2(4), 696-714.

 

Majed, N, Real, M. I. H., Redwan, A. and Azam, H. M. (2021). How dynamic is the heavy metals pollution in the Buriganga River of Bangladesh? A spatiotemporal assessment based on environmental indices. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 1-20
Article DOI: 10.1007/s13762-021-03434-8 [available at https://rdcu.be/cni2l].

 

Majed, N., & Gu, A. Z. (2020). Phenotypic dynamics in polyphosphate and glycogen accumulating organisms in response to varying influent C/P ratios in EBPR systems. Science of The Total Environment, 743, 14063.

 

Wang, D., He, P., Wang, Z., Li, G., Majed, N., & Gu, A. Z. (2020). Advances in single cell Raman spectroscopy technologies for biological and environmental applications. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 64, 218-229.

 

Alam, M. K., Uddin, M. A., Satter, M. F., & Majed, N. (2020), “Seasonal variation of water quality and waste loads in Buriganga river with GIS visualization”, Bangladesh Journal of Industrial and Scientific Research, 55(2), 113-130.

 

Majed, N., Alam, M. K., Real, M. I. H. and Khan, M. S. (2019), “Accumulation of Copper and Zinc Metals from Water in Anabus Testudeneous Fish Species in Bangladesh”, Aquaculture Studies, 19(2), 92-102.

 

Onnis-Hayden, A., Majed, N., Li, Y., Rahman, S. M., Drury, D., Risso, L., and Gu, A. Z. (2019) “Impact of Sludge Residence Time (SRT) on Functionally Relevant Microbial Populations and Performance in Full-scale in Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal (EBPR) Systems”, Water Environment Research, 92(3), 389-402. [Outstanding paper of 2020 by WEF]

 

Saeed, T., Majed, N., Khan, T., & Mallika, H. (2019). Two-stage constructed wetland systems for polluted surface water treatment. Journal of environmental management, 249, 109379.

 

Real, M. I. H., Azam, H. M. and Majed, N. (2017), “Consumption of Heavy Metal Contaminated Foods and Associated Risks in Bangladesh”, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 189:651. doi: 1007/s10661-017-6362-z

 

Majed, N., Real, M. I. H., Akter, M. and Azam, H. M. (2016), “Food Adulteration and Bio-Magnification of Environmental Contaminants: A Comprehensive Risk Framework for Bangladesh”, Front. Environ. Sci. 4:34. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2016.00034

 

Majed, N., Li, Y. and Gu, A.Z. (2012), “Advances in Techniques for Phosphorus Analysis in Biological Sources”, Current Opinion in Biotechnology,23: 852-859.

 

Majed, N., Chernenko, T., Diem, M. and Gu, A.Z. (2012), “Identification of functionally Relevant Populations in Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Processes Based on Intracellular Polymers Profiles and Insights into Metabolic Diversity and Heterogeneity”, Environmental Science and Technology, 46(9), 5010-5017.

 

Majed, N. and Gu, A. Z. (2010), “Application of Raman Microscopy for Simultaneous and Quantitative Evaluation of Multiple Intracellular Polymers Dynamics Functionally Relevant to Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Processes”, Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 8601-8608.

 

Majed, N., Matthaus, C., Diem, M. and Gu, A. Z. (2009) “Evaluation of Intracellular Polyphosphate Dynamics in Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Process Using Raman Microscopy”, Environmental Science and Technology, 43, 4436-5442.

 

Bucci, V., Majed, N., Hellweger, F. and Gu, A. Z. (2012), “Heterogeneity of Intracellular Polymer Storage States in Microbial Populations Relevant to Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Processes: Observation and Modeling”, Environmental Science and Technology, 46(6), 3244-3252.

 

Schuler, A., Majed, N., Bucci, V., Hellweger, F. L., Tu, Y. and Gu, A. Z. (2010), “Is the Whole Sum of its Parts? Agent based Modeling of Wastewater Treatment Systems”, Water Science &Technology 63(8), 1590-1598.

 

Onnis-Hayden, A., Majed, N. and Gu, A.Z. (2011), “Process Optimization by Decoupled Control of Key Microbial Populations: Distributions of Activities and Abundance of Functionally Relevant Populations in a full-scale IFAS-EBPR Process” Water Research 45(13), 3845-3854.

Awards & Honors

Graduate Scholarship in the Department of Civil Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology from 1998-2002.

 

Graduate Fellowship in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Cincinnati (Fall 2005)

 

Graduate Fellowship in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University (Fall 2006)

 

Dean’s Fellowship in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University (Fall 2009)

 

Best Paper Award in the Water and Environmental Engineering Division for presentation on “Heavy Metal Contamination of Environmental Compartments of Buriganga River in Dhaka City”, Global Civil Engineering Conference 2017, 25-28 July, Kualalampur, Malaysia.

 

Outstanding paper of 2020 by Water Environment Federation on “Impact of Sludge Residence Time (SRT) on Functionally Relevant Microbial Populations and Performance in Full-scale  in Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal (EBPR) Systems”, Water Environment Research, 92(3), 389-402.

 

Best Parallel Sessions Presentation Award in IN4OBE Global Virtual Summit, 2022 (August 12 – 14) in track computing, engineering technology theme 3 transformational models of learning – moving from principles to practices titled ”pursuit of agile transformation in the attainment of learning outcomes of civil engineering courses: a case study in Bangladesh”

Educational Qualifications

PhD, Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

Master of Science, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Academic Experience

 

Professor

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

Professor and Chair

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

Associate Professor

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

June 2025 - Present

 

 

 

April 2023 – 

May 2025 (Chair until March 2025)

 

August 2017-

March 2023

 

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

 

August 2014 –

August 2017

 

 

Assistant Professor

Department of Environmental Science and Management, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

January 2012- November 2013

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

 

January 2007 – August 2011

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA

 

September 2005 – December 2005
Corporate Experience

Research Officer

International Training Network Centre (ITN-BUET) for Water Supply and Waste Management, Dhaka, Bangladesh

July 2003 –

July 2005
Courses

1. Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering

2. Environmental Microbiology

3. Water Supply and Treatment

4. Environmental Chemistry

5. Solid and Hazardous Waste Management

6. Open Channel Flow

7. Environmental Pollution Control 

8. Research Methodology

Membership & Professional Activities

Membership

  • Life Member of Institution of Engineers (IEB), Bangladesh
  • Life Member of American Alumni Association (AAA), Bangladesh
  • Life Member of Women Architects, Engineers, Planners Association (WAEPA), Bangladesh
  • Life Member, Agami Education Foundation (Sister concern, Agami Inc., USA), Bangladesh
  • Founder Member and Life Fellow, Bangladesh Society for Private University Academics (BSPUA), Bangladesh
  • Board Member, Agile in Education USA, USA

Professional Activities

  • Certified Evaluator for accreditation of OBE based Programs, Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education (BAETE), Bangladesh
  • Member, Quality Assurance Committee (QAC) and Evaluator Assessment Committee (EAC), BAETE, Bangladesh.
  • Resource Person, OBE Training, BAETE, Bangladesh. 
  • External committee member and examiner in PhD and MSc thesis at the Department of Civil Engineering, BUET.
  • Resource person of City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation, Fecal Sludge Management and Fecal Sludge Treatment sessions at ITN-BUET, Dhaka.
  • Research Partner, Agile in Education USA (Non-profit education platform)
  • Registered Scrum Master (RSM) by Scrum Inc, (USA), Valid until Lifetime.
  • Peer Reviewer of multiple journals published by MDPI such as Sustainability, Resources, Energy, Agronomy, Earth, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and by Elsevier such as Chemosphere, Journal of Environmental Management, and by Science Direct such as Water Research etc. 
Research Interests
  • Water Quality   
  • Wastewater Treatment
  • Wastewater Microbiology
  • Environmental Management
  • Life Cycle Analysis
  • Solid Waste Management