Mohammad K. Younes has over 10 years of experience in project management, research, teaching, and sales in environmental engineering fields. He has a Master's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Jordan and has published over 10 journal articles and conference papers related to solid waste management and landfill siting. Currently, he is a researcher at the National University of Malaysia studying innovative landfill siting processes.

1. MOHAMMAD K. YOUNES
ADDRESS:
Permanent Address
B-6-1 Block Plaza indah P, jlan sepakat
indah 1
P.O. Box: B-06-01
Kajang, Selangor 43000
Malaysia
Cell: + (60) 11 3985 1699
• Email: mohyoumoh@hotmail.com
KEY ACHEIVMENTS:
• 3-years’ experience in research and teaching in Environmental Engineering fields- solid waste
group, publishing more than10 referred journal and conference articles.
• Managing and supervising collection, handling and final disposal of the hazardous waste and
the expired chemicals that were generated from all public schools in Jordan.
• Member in a committee to assess and harmonize the Jordanian standards with the European
standards.
• Involved in the day to day management activities of all Ministry of Environment projects,
workshops and inspection tasks.
• Manage and increase the sales from only 600 thousands per year to more than 2.5 million per
year within a twenty months. This was done through creative and providing total solutions for
the customers.
• 10 years of International experience in project management and planning.
EXPERIENCE
 Researcher- The National University of Malaysia (UKM) - Department of Civil and
Structural Engineering
Responsibilities:
• The research conducted aims to develop innovative landfill siting process through integrating
the statistical model with an analytic network process (ANP) to enhance the decision-making
process. The results of this research show the capability of the method to minimize the
uncertainty and the subjectivity of human judgments. Moreover, it suggests the best landfill site
for Selangor State.
 Team Leader at Ministry of Environment –Solid Waste and Hazardous Substances
Directorate, November 1st
, 2008 - 2012.
Responsibilities:
• Supervise and coordinate the hazardous waste handling and disposal in the treatment facility.
• Member in solid waste division to assess the solid waste management activities in the
municipalities, landfills and related regulations.
• Prepare and follow up the notification for transboundary movements of waste according Basel
Convention procedures, and cooperate with the international focal points.

2. • Member in a committee works on reviewing current standards, evaluate and harmonize with the
EU standards.
• Assessment and inspection visits to industries, with cooperation with relevant authorities.
 Technical and Sales Area Manager in Concorde – Corodex Group, Water Treatment
department the representatives of HACH-Lange group in UAE, May 11th
, 2006 – October
17th
, 2008.
Responsibilities:
• Formulating and implementing sales & marketing strategies and plans (Including establishing
of goals and objectives).
• Maintaining and strengthening business relationships with the client in all major industries
including Oilfield, Municipality, Contractors and consultants.
• Work closely with the customers and advise the proper system for water and waste water
treatment both instruments and chemicals.
• Planning and conducting market campaigns of various products. and coordinate with marketing
to follow up our registration with oil companies,
• Installation and commissioning the instrument.
 Quality Control and Production Engineer in Jordan River Establishment for Dead Sea
products. April 26th
, 2005 – January 16th
, 2006.
Responsibilities:
• Follow up the daily, weekly and monthly production plans.
• Supervise the entire production process within ISO 9000 standards.
• Work with Jordanian scientific association on cleaner production (CP) project and apply its
principles as much as possible in the production processes to protect the local environment.
SKILLS
• Fluent spoken and written Arabic, English and Russian. Basic French knowledge.
• Excellent management and analytical skills (CMA course), Knowledge of Environmental
Impacts Assessments, ISO 9001.
• Knowledge of computer software, windows, Office, and Mat lab programs.
• Ability to work in International and multicultural environments.
EDUCATION
• 2009-2011,University of Jordan, Master of Civil Engineering- Water and Environment, (3.44 V.
good)
• 2000-2005, Al-Balqa Applied University, Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, (2.79 good).
TRAINING AND CONFERENCES
• Application of Solar and Wind Energy, UNIDO- International Solar Energy Center, China,14/9
-8/11- 2011.
• Project Assessor Training workshop, September 2011.
• Project Management Training course, held by Jordan Engineering Association August 2011.
• Corrosion and its resistance application, Jordan Engineering Association, 2010.

3. • Regional Workshop for Monitoring and Auditing Hazardous Waste Generation from Industrial
Sector, Basel Convention Regional Center – Egypt, June 2009
• Health, Safety and Environment induction, ZADCO Head Quarter for offshore staff, May 30th
2008.
• Total Quality Control (TQC), Al-Balqa Applied University, November 1st 2004 – January 5st
2005.
• 4th Jordanian Quality Conference, Membership Certificate in ISO9000 Quality Assurance,
September 8th, 2003 - September 10th, 2003.
Referred Journal Papers
1. Younes, M. K., Basri, N., Nopiah, Z., Basri, H. & Abushammala, M. F. 2015. Use of a
Combination of Mrss-Anp for Making an Innovative Landfill Siting Decision Model.
MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING 501(381926).
2. Younes, M. K., Nopiah, Z. M., Basri, N. E. A., Basri, H., Abushammala, M. F. M. & Abdul
Maulud, K. N. 2015. Solid Waste Forecasting Using Modified Anfis Modeling. Journal of
the Air & Waste Management Association (just accepted).
3. Younes M.K., Zulkifli N.,Nadi B., BASRI, N. E. A., Basri H.,A BUSHAMMALA, M. F.,
Khaldoun Shatanawi “Investigation of Solid Waste Characterization, Composition and
Generation Using Management of Environmental Systems in Zarqa, Jordan,” , Asian Journal of
Chemistry, 25 vol. 17 (2013) PP 9523-9526.
4. Abushammala, M.F., N.E.A. Basri, and M.K. Younes, Methane Oxidation in Landfill Cover
Soils: A Review. Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment, 2014. 8(1): p. 1-14.
5. bushammala, M. F., Basri, N. E. A., Elfithri, R., Younes, M. K. & Irwan, D. 2014. Modeling
of Methane Oxidation in Landfill Cover Soil Using an Artificial Neural Network. Journal of
the Air & Waste Management Association 64(2): 150-159.
6. Younes, M. K., N. M. Nopiah, M.Y. Younes, N. E. Ahmad Basri, Hassan Basri, and and
Mohammed F.M. Abushammala. "Implementation of Dynamic Regulation Impact Assessment,
Case Study of Plastic Bags in Jordan." Wulfenia Journal multidisciplinary 20, no. 9 (Sep 2013).
Referred Conferences:
1. Younes, M. K., Nopiah, Z. M., Basri, N. E. A. & Basri, H. 2015. Priorities Determination
Using Novel Analytic Hierarchy Process and Median Ranked Sample Set, Case Study of
Landfill Siting Criteria. AIP Conference Proceedings 1643(377-383).
2. Younes, M. K., Nopiah, Z. M., Basri, N. E. A. & Basri, H. 2014. Medium Term Municipal
Solid Waste Generation Prediction by Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average. AIP
Conference Proceedings 1613(427-435).
3. Z. M. Nopiah, Mohammad K. Younes, N. E. Ahmad Basri, H. Basrid 2014. Sizing and Siting of
Solid Waste sanitary Landfill Using Statistical and AHP Techniques, International technical
conference in Seoul, Korea 2014
4. Younes, M. K., Nopiah, Z. M., Basri, N. E. A. & Basri, H 2013. ”Application of Time series
Artificial Neural Networks for Medium and Long term Solid Waste Generation Predictions,
International Conference on Computing mathmatics and statistics 28-29 Auhust 2013 Penang,
UiTM- Kedah.