Mohd Shahril Abdul Rahman is a Senior Lecturer in Real Estate at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)’s Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying (since February 2016). He obtained a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Property Management in 2008, followed by a Master of Science in 2010 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Facilities Management in 2015. He holds certifications in higher education teaching (2017) and supervision (2018). With expertise in real estate, assets, and facilities management, as well as land administration and development, he has a strong research interest in these areas.
Since 2016, he has been teaching over two hundred credit hours at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has contributed to over twenty institutional/ national/ international research & development/ innovation/ consulting projects and has even led five of them. He is currently supervising or co-supervising three doctoral students. In the past, he has supervised thirty-two bachelor’s students, eight master’s students, and six doctoral students who have successfully completed their degrees. He has over seventy publications, with more than 30% of them indexed by Scopus/WoS.
In addition to his academic work, he has been appointed to more than 1300 professional and community positions or commissions since 2016. These appointments have spanned various levels, from faculty and school to university and institutional, as well as national and international levels. He has also held various managerial and administrative positions, including Facility Manager at his faculty (2021-2023), Green Manager (2018-2021), and acting Research Manager (2017).
His contributions to academia have not gone unnoticed, as he has received recognition and awards from various national and international organisations and institutions, including UTM, Emerald, Elsevier B.V. (Elsevier), and Publons of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science Group (WoS). His collection of over a hundred awards/ ranks/ recognitions include those for service, teaching, research/ development/ innovation/ publication, and institutional leadership.