فدوى الملوحي | جامعة حمد بن خليفة
Hamad Bin Khalifa University

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فدوى الملوحي

الدكتورة فدوى الملوحي (PhD)


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  • موقع المكتب465, Floor 1, HBKU-RDC- North

السيرة الذاتية

Dr. Fadwa El Mellouhi received her PhD in Physics focused on Computational Materials Science from the Université de Montréal, Canada in 2006 followed by a strong and diversified university teaching and research experience. She also holds a diploma from the ICTP funded by the UNESCO-IAEA in 2001. After the completion of her PhD, she worked as postdoctoral researcher at Université de Montréal, Canada, then in 2010 she joined Texas A&M University at Qatar where she worked until 2014 as an Assistant Research Scientist. Since 2014, she has been working as a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, Qatar.

Dr. Fadwa is recognized for her excellent scientific research in the area of accelerating the materials' discovery for the decarbonization of the energy sector by using Computational Physics, Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence. Her research experiences have resulted into numerous internationally impactful outcomes, strengthened by collaboration with experimental groups from US universities such as Texas A&M University and National Labs such as ORNL and PNNL, as well as local industrial partners on key economic, energetic and environmental grand challenges aiming at lowering greenhouse emissions. Her research brings a lot of visibility and covers, but not limited to, the design of materials for solar energy conversion, energy storage, carbon capture and conversion, hydrogen production and storage, smart coatings to fight COVID-19 contaminations as well as corrosion. Her research makes a significant contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7 (UN SDG 7) to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy.

Her research portfolio has resulted in being highly-impactful with cited research outcomes leading to an h-index of 27 with more than 400 citations/year over the past three years. This includes three patents, three copyrighted software solutions and 80 scientific publications with more than 20 publications in journals of impact factor of five or higher such as Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Chemistry of Materials, Materials Horizons, and Energy Technology. Her work has also been recognized and awarded in renowned and specialized venues such as the HOPV-17 conference at Lausanne, Switzerland in 2017. 

Having a solid experience with proposal writing, fund rising, reporting and grant management, she is currently involved with and leading several research projects. Over the past seven years, she has attracted as principal applicant, under a very competitive environment, a total funding exceeding 5.5 Million USD in addition to establishing multinational and multidisciplinary collaborations supported by cash co-funding from the likes of Shell, an oil and gas giant industry. As the principal applicant, she is currently managing active projects with external funds totaling 2 Million USD that will run beyond 2024 aiming at training students, researchers and producing transformative solutions. In one of her latest achievements, she was awarded a sub-project within a multinational/multidisciplinary cluster project (consortium) on the design of materials for the CO2 direct air capture and conversion. 

During the past few years, she has developed a strong ability to define the methodology for conducting and disseminating research and for evaluating research results. She is currently teaching Physics to freshmen and involved in educating younger age students via mentoring and judging. She developed a fine research advising skillset that enabled her to train and supervise several postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, undergraduate summer students, high and middle school students. Her research experiences in Italy, Canada and Qatar made her an advocate of inclusion and promotor of diversity. As a female scientist in Computational Sciences, and pursuing an independent research program since 2010, her career path serves as an inspiration for young women in Africa and the Middle East, and will motivate them to pursue a career in Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Her current involvement in teaching and outreach in science is a reflection of her advocacy towards instructional excellence, outreach, and multiversity. 
 

 


الاهتمامات البحثية

  • Quantum Physics
  • Quantum Chemistry
  • Computer Aided Discoveries
  • Data-driven Material design
  • Machine Learning aided for Sustainable Materials Discovery
  • Developing cutting-edge Materials Science and Nanotechnology research

الخبرات

Associate Professor (Visiting)

Texas A&M University at Qatar

2021 - Present
  • Senior Scientist

    QEERI Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

    2014 - Present
  • Assistant Research Scientist

    Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar

    2012 - 2014
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

    Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar

    2010 - 2012
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

    University of Montreal, Canada

    2006 - 2010
  • Lecturer

    Physics Department, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

    Fall 2008
  • Lab Teaching Assistant

    Physics Department, Université de Montreal, Montreal, Canada

    Fall 2005, 2003, 2002, 2001

المؤهلات العلمية

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics

University of Montreal, Montreal (Canada)

2006
  • Diploma in Condensed Matter Physics

    The Abdus Salam ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics) Trieste, Italy

    2001
  • Master of Science

    Computational Materials Science, Djillali Liabes University, Algeria

    2000
  • Bachelor of Science

    Djillali Liabes University, Algeria

    1995

المؤلفات المختارة

  • Adnan Ali, Fedwa El Mellouhi, Anirban Mitra, Brahim Aissa

    Research Progress of Plasmonic Nanostructure-Enhanced Photovoltaic Solar Cells, Nanomaterials 12(5), 788 (2022); https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12050788 (IF 5.346)

    2022
  • El Tayeb Bentria, Salawu Omotayo Akande, Abitha Ramesh, Nicholas Laycock, Wouter Hamer, Normand Mousseau, Charlotte Becquart, Othmane Bouhali, Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    Insights on the effect of water content in carburizing gas mixtures on the metal dusting corrosion of iron, Applied Surface Science 579 (30) 152138 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.152138 (IF 6.122)

    2022
  • Salawu Omotayo Akande, El Tayeb Bentria, Abitha Ramesh, Nicholas Laycock, Othmane Bouhali, Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    Controlling surface chemistry of CO reactions on Fe surface by S blocking: A first-principles and microkinetic studies Applied Surface Science 571(1) 151216, (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.151216 (IF 6.122)

    2022
  • Niveen M Khashab, Sara E Skrabalak, Lihi Adler-Abramovich, Stacey F Bent, Fedwa El-Mellouhi, Eugenia Kumacheva, Delia J Milliron, Jennifer Neu, Elham Rezasoltani, Qing Shen, Sabrina Sicolo

    Resilient Women and the Resiliency of Science, Chemistry of Materials 33, 17, 6585–6588 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c02648 (IF 9.811)

    2021
  • Brahim Aissa, Adnan Ali, Fedwa El Mellouhi

    Oxide and Organic–Inorganic Halide Perovskites with Plasmonics for Optoelectronic and Energy Applications: A Contributive Review Catalysts 11(9) 1057 (2021) https://doi.org/10.3390/catal11091057 (IF 4.146)

    2021
  • Heesoo Park, El Tayeb Bentria, Sami Rtimi, Abdelilah Arredouani, Halima Bensmail, Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    Accelerating the Design of Photocatalytic Surfaces for Antimicrobial Application: Machine Learning Based on a Sparse Dataset, Catalysts 11(8), 1001 (2021) https://doi.org/10.3390/catal11081001 (IF 4.146)

    2021
  • Syam Kumar, Heesoo Park, Akinlolu Akande, Stefano Sanvito, Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    The rise of Nb-, Ta-, and Bi-based oxides/chalcogenides for photocatalytic applications, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 47(5), 3358 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2021.05.145 (IF 5.748)

    2022
  • Narjiss Sallahi, Heesoo Park, Fedwa El Mellouhi, Mustapha Rachdi, Idir Ouassou, Samir Belhaouari, Abdelilah Arredouani, Halima Bensmail

    Using Unstated Cases to Correct for COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak and Its Impact on Easing the Intervention for Qatar, Biology 10 (6), 463 (2021) https://doi.org/10.3390/biology10060463 (IF 3.796)

    2021
  • MM Rahman, Fedwa El-Mellouhi, Othmane Bouhali, Charlotte S Becquart, Normand Mousseau

    Pressure effect on diffusion of carbon at the symmetric tilt grain boundary of -iron, Physical Review Materials 5 (4), 043605 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.043605 (IF 3.337)

    2021
  • Heesoo Park, Adnan Ali, Raghvendra Mall, Halima Bensmail, Stefano Sanvito, Fedwa El Mellouhi

    Data-driven Enhancement of Cubic Phase Stability in Mixed-cation Perovskites, Machine Learning: Science and Technology 2 025030 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/abdaf9 (IF NA)

    2021
  • El Tayeb Bentria, Salawu Omotayo Akande, Charlotte S Becquart, Normand Mousseau, Othmane Bouhali, Fedwa El Mellouhi

    Capturing the Iron Carburization Mechanisms from the Surface to Bulk The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 124, 52, 28569–28579 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b05342 (IF 4.189)

    2020
  • Adnan Ali, Heesoo Park, Raghvendra Mall, Brahim Aïssa, Stefano Sanvito, Halima Bensmail, Abdelhak Belaidi, Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    Machine Learning Accelerated Recovery of the Cubic Structure in Mixed-Cation Perovskite Thin Films, Chemistry of Materials 32, 7, 2998–3006, (2020) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b05342 (IF 9.567)

    2020
  • Salawu Omotayo Akande, El Tayeb Bentria, Othmane Bouhali and Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    Searching for the rate determining step of the H2S reaction on Fe (110) surface, Applied Surface Science 532, 147470, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.147470 (IF 6.122)

    2020
  • Syam Kumar R, Akinlolu Akande, Fedwa El-Mellouhi, Heesoo Park, and Stefano Sanvito

    Theoretical investigation of the structural, elastic, electronic, and dielectric properties of alkali-metal-based bismuth ternary chalcogenides, Physical Review Materials 4 (7), (2020). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.4.075401 (IF 3.335)

    2020
  • Rachid Essehli, Souhir Sabri, Fedwa El-Mellouhi, Brahim Aïssa, Hamdi Ben Yahia, Tausif Altamash, Majeda Khraisheh, Abdulkarem Amhamed & Brahim El Bali

    Single crystal structure, vibrational spectroscopy, gas sorption and antimicrobial properties of a new inorganic acidic diphosphates material (NH4)2Mg(H2P2O7)2•2H2O, Scientific Reports 10, 8909 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65718-2 (IF 4.011)

    2020
  • Merid Legesse, Sergey N. Rashkeev, Hamed Saidaoui, Fedwa El Mellouhi, Said Ahzi, Fahhad H. Alharbi

    Band gap tuning in aluminum doped two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 250, 123176 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2020.123176 (IF 3.408)

    2020
  • Heesoo Park, Raghvendra Mall, Adnan Ali, Stefano Sanvito, Halima Bensmail, Abdelhak Belaidi, Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    Importance of structural deformation features in the prediction of hybrid perovskite bandgaps, Computational Materials Science 184, 109858 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1021/ 10.1016/j.commatsci.2020.109858 (IF 2.292)

    2020
  • Stefana Anais Colibaba, Sabine Körbel, Carlo Motta, Fedwa El-Mellouhi, and Stefano Sanvito

    Interlayer dielectric function of a type-II van der Waals semiconductor: The HfS2/PtS2 heterobilayer, Phys. Rev. Materials 3, 124002 (2019). (IF 3.335)

    2019
  • Marie Buffiere, Dattatray S. Dhawale and Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    Chalcogenide materials and derivatives for photovoltaic applications, Energy Technology 7, 11, 1900819 (2019) (IF 3.175)

    2019
  • Heesoo Park, Ahmer A. B. Baloch, El Tayeb Bentria, Sergey N Rashkeev, Fahhad H Alharbi, and Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    Oxychalcogenide-Perovskite Solar Cells: A Multiscale Design Approach, Energy Technology https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.201900766 (2019) (IF 3.175).

    2019
  • Rachid Essehli, Hamdi Ben Yahia, Ruhul Amin, Fedwa El-Mellouhi, Ilias Belharouak

    Selective sodium-ion diffusion channels in Na2-xFe3(PO4)3 positive electrode for Na-ion batteries, Energy Storage (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2019.07.040 (IF 3.940)

    2019
  • Heesoo Park, Raghvendra Mall, Fahhad H Alharbi, Stefano Sanvito, Nouar Tabet, Halima Bensmail, Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    Learn and Match Molecular Cations for Perovskites, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 123, 33, 7323-7334 (2019) (IF 2.641) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.9b06208

    2019
  • Aurab Chakrabarty, El Tayeb Bentria, Salawu Akande Omotayo, Othmane Bouhali, Normand Mousseau, Charlotte S Becquart, Fedwa El Mellouhi

    Elucidating the role of extended surface defects at Fe surfaces on CO adsorption and dissociation, Applied surface Science 491, 792-798 (2019) (IF 5.115) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.05.278

    2019
  • Fedwa El-Mellouhi, Sergey N. Rashkeev, Asma Marzouk, Lara Kabalan, Abdelhak Belaidi, Belabbes Merzougui, Nouar Tabet and Fahhad H. Alharbi

    Intrinsic stability enhancement and ionic migration reduction by fluorinated cations incorporated in hybrid lead halide perovskites, J. Mater. Chem. C, 7, 5299-5306 (2019) (IF 5.976) https://doi.org/10.1039/C8TC06308G

    2019
  • Fedwa El-Mellouhi, Mohamed E. Madjet, Golibjon R. Berdiyorov, El Tayeb Bentria, Sergey N. Rashkeev, Sabre Kais, Akinlolu Akande, Carlo Motta, Stefano Sanvito and Fahhad H. Alharbi

    Enhancing the electronic dimensionality of hybrid organic–inorganic frameworks by hydrogen bonded molecular cations, Materials Horizons, 6, 1187-1196 (2019) (IF13.183) https://doi.org/10.1039/c8mh01436a

    2019
  • Heesoo Park, Raghvendra Mall, Fahhad H. Alharbi, Stefano Sanvito, Nouar Tabet, Halima Bensmail and Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    Exploring new approaches towards the formability of mixed-ion perovskites by DFT and machine learning Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics 21, 1078-1088 (2019) (IF 3.901) https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CP06528D

    2019
  • Asma Marzouk, Victor Ponce, Laura Benitez, Fernando A. Soto, Kie Hankins, Jorge M. Seminario, Perla B. Balbuena and Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    Unveiling the First Nucleation and Growth Steps of Inorganic Solid Electrolyte Interphase Components J. Phys. Chem. C 122 (45), 25858-25868 (2018) (IF 4.536) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b08398

    2018
  • Kapil Adhikari, Aurab Chakrabarty, Othmane Bouhali, Normand Mousseau, Charlotte S. Becquart, and Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    Benchmarking the performance of plane-wave vs. localized orbital basis set methods in DFT modeling of metal surface: a case study for Fe-(110) Journal of Computational Science 29, 163-167 (2018) (IF 1.925) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2018.10.008

    2018
  • O Bouhali, IG Economou, Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    Some recent developments on computational science and engineering Editorial Journal of Computational Science 28, 357-359 (2018) (IF 1.925) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2018.08.006

    2018
  • Fernando A. Soto, Asma Marzouk, Fedwa El-Mellouhi , and Perla B. Balbuena

    Understanding Ionic Diffusion through SEI Components for Lithium-Ion and Sodium-Ion Batteries: Insights from First-Principles Calculations Chem. Mater., 2018, 30, 3315−3322 (2018) (IF 9.466) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00635

    2018
  • Heesoo Park, Fahhad H. Alharbi, Stefano Sanvito, Nouar Tabet, and Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    Searching for Photoactive Polymorphs of CsNbQ3 (Q = O, S, Se, Te) with Enhanced Optical Properties and Intrinsic Thermodynamic Stabilities J. Phys. Chem. C, 122 (16), pp 8814–8821 (2018) (IF 4.536) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b01787

    2018
  • Oscar A. Restrepo, Normand Mousseau, Mickaël Trochet, Fedwa El-Mellouhi, Othmane Bouhali, and Charlotte S. Becquart

    Carbon diffusion paths and segregation at high-angle tilt grain boundaries in α-Fe studied by using a kinetic activation-relation technique Phys. Rev. B 97, 054309 (2018) (IF 3.075) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.054309

    2018
  • Merid Legesse Belayneh, Heesoo Park, Fedwa El-Mellouhi, Sergey N Rashkeev, Sabre Kais, Fahhad H Alharbi

    Improved photoactivity of pyroxene silicates by cation substitutions ChemPhysChem (2018) (IF 3.075) http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1002/cphc.201701155

    2018
  • MI Hossain, FH Alharbi, F El-Mellouhi, N Tabet

    Design optimization of solar cell with molybdenum sulfide as light absorber Journal of Photonics for Energy 8 (2), 025501 (2018) (IF 2.287) https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JPE.8.025501

    2018
  • Heesoo Park; Fahhad H Alharbi; Stefano Sanvito; Nouar Tabet; Fedwa El-Mellouhi

    Elucidating the Impact of Chalcogen Content on the Photovoltaic Properties of Oxychalcogenide Perovkskites NaMO3-xQx (M=Nb,Ta, and Q=S,Se,Te) ChemPhysChem 19 (6), 703-714 (2017) (IF 3.075) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201701206

    2017
  • Fedwa El-Mellouhi, Akinlolu Akande, Carlo Motta, Sergey Rashkeev, Golibjon Berdiyorov, Mohamed El-Amine El Amine madjet, Asma Marzouk, El Tayeb Bentria, Stefano Sanvito, Sabre Kais and Fahhad Hussain Al Harbi

    Solar cells materials by design: Hybrid pyroxene corner-sharing VO4 tetrahedral chains ChemSusChem 10, 1931 – 1942 (2017)(IF 7.116) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201700121

    2017
  • Fernando A. Soto, Pengfei Yan, Mark H. Engelhard, Asma Marzouk, Chongmin Wang, Guiliang Xu, Zonghai Chen, Khalil Amine, Jun Liu, Vincent L. Sprenkle, Fedwa El-Mellouhi, Perla B. Balbuena, Xiaolin Li

    Tuning the Solid Electrolyte Interphase for Selective Li and Na-ion Storage in Hard Carbon Advanced Materials 29, 1606860 (2017) (IF 15.23) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201606860

    2017
  • Fedwa El-Mellouhi, El Tayeb Bentria, Asma Marzouk, Sergey N. Rashkeev, Sabre Kais, and Fahhad H. Alharbi

    Hydrogen Bonding: A Mechanism for Tuning Electronic and Optical Properties of Hybrid Organic – Inorganic Frameworks (NPJ computational ) 2 16035 (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npjcompumats.2016.35

    2016
  • Fedwa El-Mellouhi, Asma Marzouk, El Tayeb Bentria, Sergey N Rashkeev, Sabre Kais, and Fahhad H Alharbi,

    Hydrogen Bonding and Stability of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites Chem Sus Chem 18, 2648 (2016) (IF 7.116) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201600864

    2016
  • 23. Carlo Motta, Fedwa El Mellouhi, Sabre Kais, Nouar Tabet, Fahhad Alharbi, and Stefano Sanvito:

    Revealing the role of organic cations in hybrid halide perovskites CH3NH3PbI3 Nature Communications (IF 11.47) 6, Article number:7026 (2015) (doi:10.1038/ncomms8026)

    2015