Dr. Shamjad P. Moosakutty is a Scientist at the Environment and Sustainability Center at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI). His primary research is on the field measurement of air pollution and understanding its health and climate impacts. 

He received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. During his first postdoctoral fellowship at Aarhus University, Denmark, he studied the lab-generated aerosols from gas-to-particle conversion in an enclosed chamber. His second postdoc at KAUST, Saudi Arabia, was focused on low-carbon fuel combustion and characterization. 

At QEERI, Shamjad is working to understand the overall air quality in the greater Doha area by measuring its properties continuously. He operates air quality monitoring instruments and develops software tools for data analysis and interpretation. 
 

Eng. Sachin Jain received his MTech degree in Remote Sensing and GIS with specialization in Atmospheric Sciences in 2019 from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Andhra University, India. He is working as a Research Associate at Qatar Environmental and Energy Research Institute. His research work includes mapping of solar radiation and wind data for Qatar, using ground and satellite data, in support of the solar resource and wind assessment project in QEERI. 
 

Sertac Bayhan received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2008 and 2012, respectively. His undergraduate studies had also taken place at the same university and he graduated as valedictorian. In 2008, he joined the Electronics and Automation Department, Gazi University, as a Lecturer, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017. From 2014 to 2018, he worked at Texas A&M University at Qatar as Associate Research Scientist. Dr. Bayhan is currently working in Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) as a Research Director and he is a faculty member with the rank of Professor in Sustainable Division of College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. His research encompasses power electronics and their applications in next-generation power and energy systems, including renewable energy integration, electrified transportation, and microgrid.

Dr. Bayhan is the recipient of many prestigious international awards, such as the Research Fellow Excellence Award in recognition of his research achievements and exceptional contributions to the Texas A&M University at Qatar in 2018, the Best Paper Presentation Recognition at the 41st and 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society in 2015 and 2016, Research Excellence Travel Awards in 2014 and 2015 (Texas A&M University at Qatar), and Researcher Support Awards from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). He has acquired $13M in research funding and published more than 170 papers in mostly prestigious IEEE journals and conferences. He is also the coauthor of two books and five book chapters.

Dr. Bayhan has been an active senior member of IEEE. Because of the visibility of his research, he has been recently elected as Chair of IES Power Electronics Technical Committee. He currently serves as Associate Editor for IEEE transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, and IEEE Industrial Electronics Technology News, and Guest Editor for the IEEE transactions on Industrial Informatics.

Dr. Yongfeng Tong obtained his PhD diploma at the University of Paris-Sud, France. Before joining the Core Lab of QEERI as a Scientist in September 2019, he was a Postdoc in the Laboratoire Materiaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, University of Paris Diderot, France. He has also been working in Synchrotron SOLEIL for four years and performing the synchrotron-based high resolution surface science techniques on the beamline TEMPO, including X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy(UPS), Angular-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy(ARPES), and Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS). Currently, he is under the supervision of the core lab director Dr. Said Mansour and takes charge of the XPS/UPS, TOF-SIMS characterization in the core lab QEERI. His current research interest includes organic molecules for Rectenna electronics, thiol/dithiol self-assembled monolayers and 2D novel systems. 
 

Dr. Jayaprakash Saththasivam is a Senior Scientist at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute of Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He graduated with First Class Honors (Mechanical-Aeronautics Engineering) from the University Teknologi Malaysia in 2005 and with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore (2011). Before joining QEERI, Dr. Saththasivam served as a research scientist at the Water Desalination and Reuse Center, KAUST, and the National University of Singapore.

His research focuses on advancing the efficiency and sustainability of water treatment processes. Through the development and implementation of innovative technologies, Dr. Saththasivam strives to bridge the gap between laboratory research and practical applications. His passion lies in validating and scaling up advanced technologies in pilot-scale studies to deliver real-world solutions for water challenges.

Dr. Ka Lok Yip holds an interdisciplinary PhD (summa cum laude) in International Law and International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. She also has a Bachelor of Civil Law (distinction) from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Laws (first class honors) from King’s College London. Ka Lok focuses her research on peace and conflict. She draws on a wide range of disciplines including international law, international relations, philosophy, psychology, and sociology to study the causes of armed conflicts and strategies for their management, resolution, and prevention. She has published extensively on issues related to peace and conflict and her recent monograph ‘The Use of Force against Individuals in War under International Law – a Social Ontological Approach’ won her the Francis Lieber Book Prize 2023. Ka Lok is also admitted to the practice of law in England and Wales and Hong Kong.

Sir William Blair has been a judge of the Qatar International Court since 2017.

Sir William Blair has been a judge of the Qatar International Court since 2017.

Dr. Dunia Bachour is a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute (QEERI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, Qatar. She currently coordinates the Solar Resource Assessment Project under the Energy Management Program in the Energy Center. She received her doctoral degree in Physics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Her research in QEERI focuses on solar resource measurements, assessment and analysis. Prior to joining QEERI, she worked as a Scientific Collaborator in several university hospitals in Switzerland and France with the responsibilities of a radiation physicist in a radiooncology department including the commissioning of equipment for radiation therapy, radiation treatment planning and techniques, quality control, radiation measurements and radiation protection.

Golibjon Berdiyorov is currently a senior scientist at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He obtained his Diploma in Physics at Tashkent State University, Uzbekistan in 1998. He defended his PhD thesis in 2007 at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His thesis was about computational study of parameters of superconducting materials under external electrictromagnetic fields. After his PhD he did postdoctoral research for several years, where he learned different computer simulation methods starting from first-principle density functional theory to continuum models for large scale simulations. 

His current research interest is in theoretical materials science for energy, wqater and environmental applications. In particular he is interested in predicting novel and functional materials for photovoltaics, water desalination and carbon capture and storage applications.

During his Assistant Professor position at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, he was heavily involved in teaching both undergraduate and graduate students.