Dr. Sajid is a Professor in Department of Food Science at College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, UAEU. He has started his academic career in May-2011 at UAEU as a post-doctorate Fellow and is currently serving as Professor since 2021.
His research is dedicated and aligned exclusively on food and nutritional needs of UAE and the region. Camels and dates have been and will be the important sustainable food resources for the region against all odds of climate challenges, etc and their products have shown increasing demand amongst the native population of UAE and the region. He has established an innovative research program at UAEU which focus on bioactive molecules in camel milk and diversifying the camel milk through development of novel and specialized products from camel milk. He has published high quality research in the area of camel milk protein and peptide chemistry. He is leading an active research group in Food Science Dept with multidisciplinary collaboration within UAEU and abroad.
He has published around 100 publications and edited 3 books and several book chapters.
Dr. Sajid has received his PhD from Prince of Songkla University (Thailand) in the year 2010. He has received several awards for his research at UAEU and was listed in Top 2% scientist list released by Stanford University (2020-21).