Dr. Anwar is a Scientist at Qatar Energy and Environment Research Institute (QEERI). He has more than 15 years of R&D experience in catalysis science, organic synthesis, and synthetic methodology development both in industry and academia. He received his DPhil in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK. Later he worked with Professor Sir Jack Baldwin FRS at University of Oxford on various industrial projects related to catalytic methodology development, synthesis of bioactive compounds for pharmaceuticals, biomimetic and total synthesis, reaction cascade catalysis, and retrosynthetic analysis. He has huge industrial research experience working for Roche (F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.), Pfizer UK), Galapagos (France), and Tocris Bioscience.

His research expertise spans topics in Catalysis Science, Target & Diversity Oriented Synthesis, Asymmetric Catalysis, CO2 valorization,  Reaction Scale-Up, Retrosynthetic Methodologies, Total Synthesis, Reaction Engineering, Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical Science, Polymerisation Chemistry, Circular Chemical Economy, and Fine Chemical Industry. He is also an active member of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Society of Chemical Industry (CSI) and American Chemical Society (ACS).