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Dr. Mohammad Istiaque Hossain
Scientist
Dr. Mohammad Istiaque Hossain
Scientist
Educational Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical
Master of Science in Electrical
Entity
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
Biography
Dr. Mohammad Hossain is a Research Scientist at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), where he is working as an experimentalist to fabricate and characterize photonic devices and on a numerical simulation basis to assess the theoretical performance of the devices. Since 2012, he has been involved in establishing the 'Thin Films Lab' at QEERI by contributing to the installation and commissioning of various major research tools.
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical
Electronic and Systems Engineering, National University of Malaysia , Malaysia
2016
Master of Science in Electrical
Electronic and Systems Engineering, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia
2011
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Electronics
Multimedia University, Malaysia
2008
- Solar cell materials
- Solar cell device physics
- Computational materials screening
- New concepts for solar energy utilization
- Simulation of optical and transport behaviors in optoelectronics devices
- 2D-TMDC materials
- CO2 reduction
Scientist
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Qatar Foundation.
June 2012 - Ongoing
Molybdenum Bi-Layer Thin Films for Thin Film Solar Cell Application, Thin Solid Films, 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2016.10.039.
Copper oxide as inorganic hole transport material for lead halide perovskitebased solar cells, Solar Energy, 120, 370–380, 2015.
Optical concentration effects on conversion efficiency of split-spectrum solar cell system, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 47-075101, 2014.
Recent advances in alternative material photovoltaics, Materials Technology: Advanced Performance Materials, Volume 28, pp. 88-97, March 2013.
Performance Analysis of Copper-Indium-Gallium-Diselenide (CIGS) Solar Cells with Various Buffer Layers by SCAPS, Current Applied Physics, pp. 387–391, 2010.
2010, MTCP scholarship, Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia
Dr. Ivan Gladich
Scientist
Dr. Ivan Gladich
Scientist
Educational Qualifications
Ph.D. in Environmental and Industrial Fluid Mechanics
Master in Physics
Entity
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
Biography
Ivan Gladich received his master’s in physics from the University of Trieste and, afterwards, he was a post doc at Purdue University, USA, at the Academy of Science of Czech Republic, and at the International School for Advanced Studies, (SISSA), in Italy. He joined the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) in 2015.
His main field of expertise is the use of computational physical chemistry tools for the investigation of molecular-level processes occurring at technological and atmospheric relevant interfaces.
Ph.D. in Environmental and Industrial Fluid Mechanics
University of Trieste/International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy
28 April 2009
Master in Physics
University of Trieste, Italy
26 September 2005
- Design of novel CO2 capture and mineralization pathways for the conversion of carbon dioxide in added-value products/chemicals.
- Computational modelling of XPS spectra for applications in catalysis and (heterogeneous) chemistry
- in general.
- Free energy methods for the computations of thermodynamic and kinetic properties of chemical reactions.
- Heterogeneous physicochemical processes on atmospheric aerosol interfaces by classical and first principle molecular dynamics.
Permanent Scientist
QEERI
June 2015 – Present
Research Assistant
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy.
January 2013 -- 31 May 2015
Postdoctoral Associate
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Prague, Czech Republic.
24 January 2011 -- 31 December 2012
Dreyfus Postdoctoral Associate
Purdue University, USA
3 January 2009 -- 4 January 2011
“A Novel Surface-Catalyzed Redox Reaction Occurs Spontaneously on Solvating Inorganic Aerosol Surfaces”. Science, Vol. 374. Issue 6568, (2021)
“The Surface Propensity of Aqueous Atmospheric Bromine at the Liquid-Gas Interface”. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 11, 3422-3429, (2020)
“Tuning the Stereoselectivity and Solvation Selectivity at Interfacial and Bulk Environments by Changing Solvent Polarity: Isomerization of Glyoxal in Different Solvent Environments”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 5535--5543, (2018)
“A surface-stabilized ozonide triggers bromide oxidation at the aqueous solution-vapor interface.” Nat. Commun., 8, 700, (2017)
Google Scholar Page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=4WiO-cYAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
- September 2010; American Chemical Society (ACS); Purdue Section Travel Award 2010.
- July 2008; Dreyfus Environmental Chemistry Postdoctoral; Fellowship at Purdue University, IN-USA.
- 31 January 2007; Licio Cernobori Award for degree thesis in applied geophysics; National Institute for experimental Oceanography and Geophysics (OGS), Trieste-ITALY.
Dr. Kenza Maher
Scientist
Dr. Kenza Maher
Scientist
Educational Qualifications
PhD in electrochemistry of Li-ion batteries
Master’s degree
Entity
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
Biography
Dr Kenza Maher joined Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) in January 2015 as a Scientist at the Energy Science and Technology Group. She has more than 10 years' experience in researching energy storage. Before joining QEERI, Dr Maher was Research Fellow and Project Leader at the Joint Future Mobility Research Lab with the BMW Group and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research focused on safety evaluation and diagnostics of BMW electric cars’ batteries to overcome the hazard of thermal runaway in cars.
Dr Maher received her PhD from Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco in January 2011. Her PhD focused on the development of new phosphate and oxides materials for high energy lithium-ion batteries. During her PhD, she was a Guest Researcher at Angström Laboratory, Department of Material Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden.
After her PhD, she joined the Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as Research Fellow. She worked on development of a new method to determine the battery state of charge (SOC) and state of health (SOH) based on its thermodynamics properties.
After that she moved to TUM CREATE LTd, Singapore. Her research focused on the study of batteries’ thermodynamics and kinetics properties
PhD in electrochemistry of Li-ion batteries
LCME, FST Marrakech, University Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech, Morocco.
2010
Master’s degree
Physical-chemistry of materials, LCMS, faculty of sciences, Ben M’Sik, University Hassan II Mohammedia, Casablanca, Morocco.
2006
Bachelor's degree
Inorganic Chemistry, faculty of sciences, Ben M’Sik, University Hassan II Mohammedia, Casablanca, Morocco.
2004
DEUG in Physics and chemistry (undergrads degrees)
faculty of sciences, Ben M’Sik, University Hassan II Mohammedia, Casablanca, Morocco.
2002
Scientist
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, Qatar.
January 2015 to present
Research Fellow and Project Leader
Joint Future Mobility Research Lab with BMW Group and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
November 2013 - January 2015 - 1 year and 3 months
Research Fellow
TUM CREATE Ltd., Singapore.
November 2012 – October 2013 - 1 year
Research Fellow
Energy Research Institute (ERI@N), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
July 2011 – October 2012 - 1 year and 4 months
R. Essehli, H. Ben Yahia, K. Maher, M.T. Sougrati, A. Abouimrane, J.-B. Park, Y.-K. Sun, M.A. Al-Maadeed, I. Belharouak, J. Power Sources 324 (2016) 657.
R. Essehli, I. Belharouak, H. Ben Yahia, K. Maher, A. Abouimrane, B. Orayech, S. Calder, X. L. Zhou, Z. Zhou, Y.-K. Sun, Dalton Trans., 44 (2015) 7881.
Kenza Maher, Rachid Yazami, J. Power Sources 261 (2014) 389
Kenza Maher, Rachid Yazami, J. Power Sources 247 (2014) 527.
Kenza Maher, Rachid Yazami, Electrochemica Acta 101 (2013) 71-78.
Dr. Oluwaseun Ogunbiyi
Scientist
Dr. Oluwaseun Ogunbiyi
Scientist
Educational Qualifications
PhD Chemical Engineering
MSc (HONS) Environmental Engineering
Entity
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
Biography
Oluwaseun Ogunbiyi is a chartered chemical engineer with IChemE and is currently a research scientist at QEERI (Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), a member of the Qatar Foundation. He completed his doctorate research in chemical engineering at the University of Nottingham in 2007. He has nine years of core Industrial experience as a senior process engineer at Wessex Water and GENeco and technical consultant at CH2M within the water and wastewater sector in the United Kingdom. He was actively involved as lead process consultant in the design, construction and operation of several sewage treatment works in the south west region of the UK. He has extensive knowledge of outline and detailed design as well as process optimization of existing and start-up wastewater treatment processes. His research interests include membrane-based treatment technologies, domestic and industrial wastewater reuse applications and process optimizations and improvements. He has publications related to his work in peer-reviewed journals including Chem. Eng Research and Design, Journal of Membrane Science and Desalination.
PhD Chemical Engineering
University of Nottingham, UK,
2004 – 2007
MSc (HONS) Environmental Engineering
University of Nottingham, UK
2002 – 2003
BEng (HONS) Chemical Engineering with management
University of Bradford, UK
1998 - 2002
- My research field is focused on water and wastewater treatment
- membrane separation science and application and water desalination and my current research activities include water and wastewater treatment using various membrane-based technology and other advanced technologies to improve the quality of wastewater
- treated wastewater and water desalination.
- The membrane separation applications I have experience with include MF
- UF
- NF and RO based treatment of various wastewater including municipal and industrial. Integration and application of membrane technology based processes in advanced water and wastewater treatment processes coupled with physical/chemical/biological processes.
- My research field and activities also encompass fundamental and dynamic studies to investigate membrane fouling
- biofouling and impact of colloidal particles on flux recovery. The performance of various types of membranes and their efficiency and abilities to separate various contaminants in different wastewater sources are also of interest in my field of research.
- The fouling control of membrane systems including MF
- UF and NF and optimization of flux for industrial applications and optimization of these systems to improve the quality of wastewater and treated wastewater are also a part of my research field.
- Develop novel methods for the use of treated wastewater for beneficial reuse to improve water sustainability through understanding the microbial safety concerns related to wastewater reuse
- and using a pilot plant to optimize and improve quality of treated wastewater.
- Advanced treatment for oil-field produced water and gas field produced water using bench scale preassembled membrane bench systems including UF/MF and RO SEPA CELL systems and pilot plant systems after consolidating bench scale results. Membrane filtration is used for separating oil from water and treating waste metal-working fluids and other industrial effluents.
Scientist
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) Involved in key research activities within QEERI to investigate new technologies for treated sewage effluent reuse in Qatar and also investigating advances in produced water treatment using advanced membrane technologies for the benefit of Qatar. Involved in scientific research using membrane technology for improving water and wastewater treatment and quality within Qatar and the GCC. Working with major stakeholders on projects to improve water quality and wastewater reuse to improve water sustainability in Qatar
Nov 2015 – Present
Process Engineer/Project Manager
GENeco Wessex Water Project managing the optimization of all the sludge treatment processes on site at Avonmouth STW including Centrifuges, Belt presses and Gravity Belt Thickeners. Carried out optimization of the chemical consumption of polymers and polymer usage to achieve cost benefits and achieve high %DS of the processed cake and clean centrate. Carried out analysis on the anaerobic digesters and the Acid Phase Digesters on site to determine VFA content and bio-gas yield. Project managed new initiatives for the business via feasibility studies and drafting business cases for submission and board approval. Involved in the design and trial of the new gas to grid plant at Avonmouth STW, a time advanced technology to treat methane, which will produce high quality bio-methane suitable for use in homes and in vehicles. Food waste and sewage waste will be used to produce up to 2000m3 of bio-methane an hour, enough to fuel over 8,000 homes a year. Successfully operated and maintained the Gas to Grid plant at Avonmouth with record gas yields and exports to the National Grid.
Apr 2014 – Oct 2015
Wessex Water, Process/Commissioning/Site Engineer
Project managed and coordinated the installation and trial of new Sinap and Kubota flat-sheet membranes across the membrane plants in the Wessex Water Region. Carried out optimization studies to determine the best configuration for the new membrane cartridge units at the existing membrane plants treating water and sewage across the Wessex region in the south west of England. Carried out extensive process reviews for different sewage treatment plants across the region and prepared process spreadsheets to review capacity of the existing assets on site and design new assets to cater for development within the catchment.
Jun 2013 – Apr 2014
Wessex Water, Process/Commissioning/Site Engineer
Commissioned and project-managed the upgrade of Weston-super-Mare STW to treat a population equivalent of 800,000 to include new activated sludge lanes, new storm tanks and new final tanks. I was the commissioning engineer and carried out analysis of all the on-site processes to ensure that compliance is achieved. Carried out commissioning on a new Inlet Works at Somerton STW and installed two screens and its associated process control and instrumentation. Carried out commissioning of various municipal sites and installation of package units for the treatment of sewage from households.
Jul 2012 – Jun 2013
Wessex Water & CH2M, Process/Commissioning/Site Engineer
Involved in outline and detailed design for wastewater treatment projects; process appraisals; flows and loads analysis & process flow diagrams; designing, installing and commissioning new production plant and optimization of processing equipment, monitoring developments and troubleshooting; Process engineering support for outline and detailed design and capital maintenance projects in AMP4 & AMP5, including advanced digestion schemes. Preparing process reviews & process survey reports; managing sampling surveys. Preparing specifications for odor modeling and asbestos surveys on various treatment works; preparing technical reports; Carrying out process reviews for existing treatment processes and equipment to determine level of improvements needed to meet required treatment levels and consent levels Preparing spreadsheets for equipment sizing and design specifications of wastewater treatment projects Lead Process Engineer in the outline and detailed design of Taunton STW Advanced Digestion (£5.1M) [Scope of Works: 1no. new standby strain press, 2no. new sludge thickeners, amendments to existing thickener polymer plant, 1no. new odor control plant with feed ductwork and 14m exhaust stack, design of cake reception facilities, design and provision of third digester], Taunton (Ham) STW Dry Weather Flow Improvements £14M [Scope of Works: Construction of 1nr aerated sludge plant (ASP), construction of 3nr final settlement tanks (FSTs), Interconnecting pipework, existing pipework diversions, HV/LV infrastructure upgrade and construction of new access road] and Advanced Digestion project at Trowbridge STW (£10M).
Aug 2010 – Jul 2012
Wessex Water, Process//Site Engineer
Commissioning drum thickeners, centrifuges and sludge processing facilities on wastewater treatment plants; tertiary aerated sand filters, ferric dosing systems among others. Optimization of sludge dewatering processes and management of sludge treatment sites. Project managed the installation and trial of new Sinap and Kubota membranes across the membrane plants in the Wessex Water Region.
Aug 2007 – Aug 2010
A comprehensive review N Hilal, OO Ogunbiyi, NJ Miles, R Nigmatullin (2005) Separation Science and Technology 40 (10), 1957-2005
Chemical Engineering Research and Design 84 (4), 282-292
Desalination 228 (1-3), 175-182
Desalination 185 (1-3), 185-202
OO Ogunbiyi, NJ Miles, N Hilal Desalination 220 (1-3), 273-289
Separation Science and Technology 43 (2), 286-309
Separation Science and Technology 42 (9), 1945-1963
Journal of Water Process Engineering 11, 174-182
QScience Proceedings 2016 (4), 40
Conference Accepted Abstract and Manuscript PhD Thesis
PhD Thesis University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
- 2013 Chartered Chemical Engineer - MIChemE CEng
- Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) United Kingdom
Dr. Kashif Rasool
Scientist
Dr. Kashif Rasool
Scientist
Educational Qualifications
PhD Environmental and Energy Engineering
MS Environmental Engineering & Biotechnology
Entity
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
Biography
Dr. Kashif Rasool is a sustainability and environmental scientist at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI). He earned his PhD in Environmental and Energy Engineering from the College of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Kyungpook National University, Korea.
His recent research focuses on the synthesis of novel green nanomaterials for water/wastewater purification and investigating microbial components of particulate matter in Qatar indoor and ambient air and its impact on public health. Dr. Rasool’s research efforts to date have been published in over 45 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals.
He is on review panels of several high-impact journals including ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Chemosphere, the Journal of Hazardous Material, the Chemical Engineering Journal, and Bioresource Technology.
PhD Environmental and Energy Engineering
Kyungpook National University; Daegu, Republic of Korea
2014
MS Environmental Engineering & Biotechnology
Myongji University; Yongin; Republic of Korea
2009
BSc Engineering
University of Agriculture; Faisalabad; Pakistan
2006
- Synthesis and application of advanced nanomaterials for environmental remediation
- resource recovery
- disinfection
- antifouling desalination membrane fabrication
- and emerging pollutants removal from wastewater streams
- Biological water/wastewater treatment of industrial
- domestic effluents coupled with bioenergy production. Anaerobic
- Aerobic/Anoxic activated sludge and bioeletrochemcial processes
- Fate
- biotransformation and influence of nanomaterials and emerging contaminants in aquatic environment/wastewater treatment systems
- Bioaersole in indoor and ambient air and its impacts on public health
Scientist
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
April 2019 - Present
Postdoctoral Researcher
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute; Hamad Bin Khalifa University; Qatar Foundation; Doha, Qatar
January 2015 - March 2019
Assistant Professor
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering; National University of Science and Technology (NUST); Pakistan.
Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Kyungpook National University; Republic of Korea
Sep 2011 - Augast 2014
Unprecedented environmental and energy impacts and challenges of COVID-19 pandemic Environmental Research 193 (110443)
Water treatment and environmental remediation applications of two-dimensional metal carbides (MXenes) Materials Today, 30 (80-102)
Two-dimensional metal carbide antimicrobial membrane and antimicrobial agent US Patent # 10399041
Green” ZnO-Interlinked Chitosan Nanoparticles for the Efficient Inhibition of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Inject Seawater. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 6, 3896–3906
Antibacterial Activity of Ti3C2Tx MXene. ACS Nano, 10, 3674–3684
Efficient Antibacterial Membrane based on Two-Dimensional Ti3C2Tx (MXene) Nanosheets. Nature’s Scientific Reports 7:1598
Exploring the potential of anaerobic sulfate reduction processes in treating sulfonated diazo dye: Microbial community analysis using bar-coded pyrosequencing Journal of Hazardous Materials, 318, 641–649
Effect of ZnO nanoparticles on biodegradation and biotransformation of co-substrate and sulphonated azo dye in anaerobic biological sulfate reduction process. International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation, 109, 150-156
Influence of co-substrate on textile wastewater treatment and microbial community changes in the anaerobic biological sulfate reduction process. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 299, 453–461
Simultaneous organic carbon and nitrogen removal in an anoxic-oxic activated sludge system under various operating conditions. Bioresource Technology. 162, 373-378
Simultaneous removal of COD and Direct Red 80 in a mixed anaerobic sulfate-reducing bacteria culture. Chemical Engineering Journal. 223, 611–616
- Distinguished Young Scholars Award, XIAN Jiaotong University (XJTU, China) (2018)
- Green Talents Award 2017 for High Potentials in Sustainable Development by The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (2017)
- Chemosphere Excellence in Review Award (2017)
- Best Team Member Award of Water Division, Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute, Qatar(2015)
- Biographical profile published in Who's Who in the World® (32nd Edition) (2015)
- Kyungpook National University (KNU) Honor Scholarship for Ph.D. studies (2014)
- Myongji International Graduate Scholarship (MIGS) Excellence Student Award, Myongji University, Republic of Korea (2008)
- Myongji International Graduate Scholarship (MIGS) Excellence Student Award, Myongji University, Republic of Korea (2007)
- Fully Funded Scholarship By Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan, For MS Studies In Republic Of Korea (2007)
Dr. Brahim Aïssa
Senior Scientist
Dr. Brahim Aïssa
Senior Scientist
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Materials and Energy sciences
MS in Materials and Energy Sciences
Entity
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
Biography
Dr. Brahim Aïssa received his PhD degree in Materials Science and Energy from the University of Quebec, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada, with the highest honors. Both his PhD and MS theses were awarded top prize for the best scientific achievement and part of his work was selected in the best TOP-10 scientific discovery in Canada. Parts of the samples he developed during his PhD were selected to be saved in the museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa (Canada). Dr. Aïssa joined MPB Communications Inc., Space and Photonics Division (Top 10 High Tech companies in Canada), as a scientist, where he developed a new generation of self-healing materials for space applications.
In 2014, Dr. Aïssa joined Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) as a Senior Scientist. In a close collaboration with the PV-Lab at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), he broke the world record twice for certified efficiencies for quasi-mono silicon solar cells. He published more than 170 refereed journal papers, three books, and holds many patents. He has numerous international awards, prizes and fellowships, including the prestigious NPI award from European Space Agency; the Australian Endeavour fellowship; the NSERC R&D fellowship.
PhD in Materials and Energy sciences
National Institute of Scientific Research, Energy, Materials and Telecommunications, Varennes, Québec, Canada.
2010
MS in Materials and Energy Sciences
National Institute of Scientific Research, Energy, Materials and Telecommunications, Varennes, Québec, Canada.
2005
Dr. Aïssa’s research interests include the cold plasma synthesis of structured materials (bulk, thin films, and nanoparticles) and their applications in electronic, space, and energy sciences.
In particular, his research work focuses on studying the electronic and optoelectronic properties of advanced materials, to design and synthesize novel structures with a controlled composition, morphology and dimension for PV, electronic and space applications. An emphasis is currently placed on the PV Energy field of research, revolving more specifically around six main axes, namely:
- Light Management in Solar Cells using Plasmonics and Metamaterials.
- The PV-Soiling in desert environment: its understanding
- forecasting and its mitigation.
- Technology and Performance of Bifacial Half-Cell Modules for desert climates.
- Efficient Carbon Management System for Improving Sustainability.
- AI-based Risk Mitigation for PV Plant Management and Integration.
- The silicon technology that includes the design
- fabrication and testing of silicon heterojunction solar cells for applications in a hot and sunny climate.
Senior Scientist
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute-Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation. Doha, Qatar. (Research and Development).
2014 - Present
Invited Associate Professor
PV-Lab, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
2015 - 2019
Joint Faculty Associate Professor
College of Science and Engineering-Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation. Doha, Qatar. (Teaching SENS621: Advanced materials synthesis and characterizations).
2015 - Present
Scientist
MPB Communications Inc. Space and Photonics. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2011 - 2014
Postdoctoral fellow (Following NSERC Fellowship)
MPB Technologies Inc. Department of smart materials and sensors for space missions. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2010 - 2011
Books
Self-healing Materials: Innovative materials for terrestrial and space applications. Smithers Rapra Publisher. Shawbury, UK, ISBN: 9781909030107 (274 pages).
Fibre Bragg Grating in harsh and Space environments: principles and applications. IET publishing, UK. ISBN: 978-1-78561-980-9. (232 pages).
Self-healing materials from fundamental concepts to advanced space and electronics applications, Second Edition, IET publishing, UK, ISBN: 978-178561-992 (240 pages).
Book Chapters
“Carbonaceous Nanomaterials for Hybrid Organic Photovoltaic Application” Chapter 5, pages 109-125. Published in Ceramic Matrix Composite, ISBN: 978-3-11-035300-6. DE Gruyter, Germany, 2016. (https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/337768).
“Advances in Self-healing based on carbon nanomaterials for electrical circuits. A review” Chapter 6, pages 127-141. Published in Ceramic Matrix Composite, ISBN: 978-3-11-035300-6. DE Gruyter, Germany, 2016. (https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/337768).
“Carbonaceous Materials for Polymer-Based Nanocomposites: Overview of Major Advances and Current Challenge”. Chapter 1, pages 27-60. Published in: Nanocomposites, synthesis, characterization and applications, ISBN: 978-1-62948-227-9. Nova biomedical publisher, New York, 2013.
“Self-Healing Materials Systems as a Way for Damage Mitigation in Composites Structures Caused by Orbital Space Debris”. Chapter 1, pages 1-25. Published in: Handbook of Research on Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, and Advanced Materials, ISBN: 9781466658240. IGI Global Disseminator of knowledge Publisher, Pennsylvania (USA), 2014.
“Si-NWs: Major advances in synthesis and applications”. Chapter 5, pages 108-130. Published in: Handbook of Research on Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, and Advanced Materials, ISBN: 9781466658240. IGI Global Disseminator of knowledge Publisher, Pennsylvania (USA), 2014.
Selected refereed journal papers
Study of Wide Bandgap SnOx Thin Films Grown by a Reactive Magnetron Sputtering via a Two-Step Method” Sci. Reports, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-19270-w, September 2022.
“Growth and characterization of transparent vanadium doped zinc oxide thin films by means of a spray pyrolysis process for TCO application” Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-022-05875-0, May 2022.
“Advancements and Applications of Electrohydrodynamic Printing in Modern Microelectronic Devices: A Comprehensive Review” Appl. Phys. A 128, 780 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-022-05796-3.
“Density functional theory study on the magneto-electronic, mechanical, thermal, and transport properties of a novel Co2VGa0.5Al0.5 quaternary Heusler alloy” Emergent Materials, DOI: 10.1007/s42247-022-00393-9.
“Photovoltaic properties of hybrid c-Si/ZnO nanorods solar cells” Materials Advances, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2MA00416J
“PV-Soiling Field-Assessment of Mars™ Optical Sensor Operating in the Harsh Desert Environment of the State of Qatar” Solar Energy 239,139-146, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2022.04.064.
“Condensation as a predictor of PV soiling” Solar Energy 238, 30-38, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2022.04.025, 2022.
“Probing the hydrophilic behavior of e-beam evaporated silica thin films for PV-soiling application” Materials Science and Technology, https://doi:10.1080/02670836.2022.2063526, 2022.
“Broadband self-powered photodetection with p-NiO/n-Si heterojunctions enhanced with plasmonic Ag nanoparticles deposited with pulsed laser ablation” J. Mater. Sci: Mater Electron (2022), 1-13, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-08058-3.
“Laser ablation fabrication of a p-NiO/n-Si heterojunction for broadband and self-powered UV-Visible-NIR photodetection” Nanotechnology 33 (25), 255202, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ac5ca6.
“Research Progress of Plasmonic Nanostructure-Enhanced Photovoltaic Solar Cells” Nanomaterials 12, no. 5: 788. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12050788.
“Computational determination of structural, electronic, magnetic and thermodynamic properties of Co2HfZ (Z= Al, Ga, Si and Sn) full Heusler compounds for spintronic applications” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 894, 162503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.162503.
“X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and spectroscopic ellipsometry analysis of the p-NiO/n-Si heterostructure system grown by pulsed laser deposition” Thin Solid Films 743, 139077, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2021.139077.
“Metamaterials and Metasurfaces: A Review from the Perspectives of Materials, Mechanisms and Advanced Metadevices” Nanomaterials 2022, 12(6), 1027; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12061027.
“Inkjet printing of metal oxide coatings for enhanced photovoltaic soiling environmental applications” Global J. Environ. Sci. Manage. 8(4): 1-18 (2022), http://dx.doi.org/10.22034/GJESM.2022.04.03.
“Computational determination of structural, electronic, magnetic and thermodynamic properties of Co2HfZ (Z = Al, Ga, Si and Sn) full Heusler compounds for spintronic applications” Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2021, 162503, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.162503.
“Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Infrared Optical Filter based on Metal Oxides Thin Films for Temperature Mitigation in Photovoltaics” Journal of Electronic Materials 51, 179-189, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-021-09269-w.
“High Performance of Anion Exchange Blend Membranes Based on Novel Phosphonium Cation Polymers for All-Vanadium Redox Flow Battery Applications” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13, 38, 45935–45943, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c10872.
“Oxide and Organic–Inorganic Halide Perovskites with Plasmonics for Optoelectronic and Energy Applications: A Contributive Review” Catalysts 2021, 11(9), 1057; https://doi.org/10.3390/catal11091057.
“Investigating the suitability of poly tetraarylphosphonium based anion exchange membranes for electrochemical applications” Scientific Report 11, (pp 1-12), 13841 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93273-x.
“Investigation of Ruthenium based Full-Heusler compound for thermic, spintronics and thermoelectric applications: DFT Computation” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 134, 106047 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2021.106047
“Synthesis and Characterization of a Novel Hydroquinone Sulfonate-Based Redox Active Ionic Liquid” Materials 2021, 14, 3259. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14123259.
“Dust potency in the context of solar photovoltaic (PV) soiling loss Solar Energy” Solar Energy 220, 1040-1052, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2021.04.015.
“Nanoelectromagnetic of a highly conductive 2D transition metal carbide (MXene)/Graphene Nanoplatelets composite in the EHF M-band Frequency” Carbon 173 (2021) 528-539, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2020.11.024 (2021).
“Hydrophilic Antireflection and Antidust Silica Coatings” ACS Omega, 2021, 6, 8, 5276–5286, 2021, https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c05405
“Bandgap Tuning of High Mobility Magnetron Sputtered Copper (I) Oxide Thin Films for Perovskite Solar Cell Applications” Journal of Thin Films Research, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2021 Pages 51 – 54, https://doi.org/10.30799/jtfr.026.21050101
“Thermoelectric Potential of OsAl2 Chimney Ladder Compound: A Theoretical Investigation” Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism 34, 1215–1223 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-021-05803-3
“Nonlinear multi-mode electromagnetic insole energy harvester for human-powered body monitoring sensors: Design, modeling and characterization” Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Part C, 0954406221991178, 2121. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954406221991178
“Machine-Learning-Accelerated Recovery of the Large-grain and Cubic Structure in Mixed Cations Perovskite Thin Films” Chem. Mater. 2020, 32, 7, 2998-3006, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b05342 (2020).
“Unusual Bimodal Photovoltaic Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells at Real-World Operating Temperatures”, J. Phys. Chem. C 2020, 124, 17, 9118-9125. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b11818 (2020)
“Multi-year field assessment of seasonal variability of photovoltaic soiling and environmental factors in a desert environment” Solar Energy, Volume 211, 15 November 2020, Pages 1392-1402, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.10.076 (2020).
“PCDTBT:PCBM:Graphene-Nanoplatelet Photoabsorbers” Journal of Electrochemical Society, 167(13), 136504 (2020). https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/1945-7111/abb6ce (2020).
“E-beam evaporated hydrophobic metal oxide thin films as carrier transport materials for large scale perovskite solar cells”. Materials Technology: Advanced Performance Materials. https://doi.org/10.1080/10667857.2020.1830551. (2020).
“Structural, electronic, elastic, Magnetic and thermodynamic properties of Mn2LuZ (Z = B, Al, Ga, In) Heusler compounds: a first principle study”, Int. Journal of Quantum Chemistry, V. 121(9), e26601, 2021. DOI: 10.1002/qua.26601.
“Failure analysis of self-healing epoxy resins using microencapsulated 5E2N and carbon nanotubes” Smart materials and structures, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-665X/abd005 (2020).
“Nb-based MXenes for the efficient electrochemical sensing of small biomolecules in the anodic potential” Electrochemistry Communications, 119, 106811. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elecom.2020.106811
“Single crystal structure, vibrational spectroscopy, gas sorption and antimicrobial properties of a new inorganic acidic diphosphates material (NH4)2Mg(H2P2O7)2•2H2O” Scientific Reports (2020) 10:8909| https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65718-2.
“Vibration-based piezoelectric, electromagnetic and hybrid energy harvesters for microsystems applications: A contributed review” Int. J. Energy Res. Vol. 45 (1); pp 65– 102. https://doi.org/10.1002/er.5643
“Multimodal Hybrid Piezoelectric-Electromagnetic Insole Energy Harvester Using PVDF Generators” Electronics 2020, 9(4), 635; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9040635
“First Principle Investigation of Structural, Electronic and Optical Properties of Quaternary BxInyGa1-x-yN Compounds”, SPIN journal, 10 (4), 2050024 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010324720500241.
“Development of an inorganic cesium carbonate-based electron transport material for a 17 % power conversion efficiency perovskite solar cell device” Journal of Photonics for Energy 10(1), 015502 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JPE.10.015502
“Recovery of electro-mechanical properties inside self-healing composites through microencapsulation of carbon nanotubes” Scientific Reports 10 (1), 1-13 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59725-6
“Surface atomic packing fraction as a figure of merit for the structural transition and the bulk-to-nano transformation of spherical FCC and BCC nanosolids” Physica E, 120, 114015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2020114015 (2020).
“Theoretical study of magneto-electronic properties of TmCo2 and NdCo2 intermetallic compounds through Density Functional Theory calculations” International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Vol. 121(5), e26488, pp 1-9. DOI: 10.1002/qua.26488, 2020.
“Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon-Nanotube-Blended P3HT-Based high performance Memory Behavior Thin-Film Transistors Devices” Nanotechnology 31, 075201 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4768-9891(2020).
“Structural, Magnetic, and Band Structure Characteristics of the Half-Metal–Type Heusler Alloys Co2VSi1−xAlx (x = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 1)” Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism volume 33, pages1177–1186 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-019-05315-1
“Influence of single-walled carbon nanotubes induced exciton dissociation improvement on hybrid organic photovoltaic devices” Journal of applied physics, Vol. 126, 113101, 2019. DOI: 10.1063/1.5105388, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5105388
“Optimized design of silicon heterojunction solar cells for field operating conditions” IEEE journal of photovoltaics, Vol. 9 (6), pp 1541 - 1547, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2019.2938449
“Adaptive state estimation of groundwater contaminant boundary input flux in a 2-dimensional aquifer” Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering 2019, 7(4), 373-382, DOI: 10.19637/j.cnki.2305-7068.2019.04.008
“Record Efficiency P- and N-type Mono-like Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells with High Temperature Gettering Process”, ACS Applied Energy Materials, Vol. 2(7), 4900-4906, (2019).
“Photovoltaic Soiling in Dry Climates: Causes, Impacts and Solutions” PV Tech Power 21, Technical paper, pp 14-18, Dec. 2019
“Annealing of silicon heterojunction solar cells: Interplay of solar cell and ITO properties” IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, Vol. 99, 1-6, (2019). Doi:10.1109/JPHOTOV.2019.2924389
“Electronic structure of REFe2 (RE = Dy, Ho and Er) intermetallic compounds: Ab initio spin-density functional theory” Solid State Communications, Vol. 296, 42-48 (2019).
“Catalyst-free synthesis of ZnO-CuO-ZnFe2O4 nanocomposites by a rapid one-step thermal decomposition approach” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, Vol. 90, 41-49, (2018).
“Correlation effects on the electronic structure of Co2VGa1−xSix (x = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1) quaternary Heusler alloys: first-principles calculations” Journal of Alloys and Compounds Vol. 771, 1062-71, (2018).
“Effect of Synthesis on Performance of MXene/Iron Oxide Anode Material for Lithium-Ion” Langmuir Vol. 34 (38):11325-34 (2018).
“Cure kinetics of poly (5-ethylidene-2-norbornene) with 2nd generation Hoveyda-Grubbs’ catalyst for self-healing applications” Polymer Vol. 153, 1-8, (2018).
“The Economic Value of Common Urban Trees in the State of Qatar from an Air Quality Control Perspective” J. Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. Vol. 4 (3), 285–288 (2018).
“Ab-initio study of the structural, elastic and electronic properties of CeN and LuN rare-earth nitride compounds” J. Supercond. Nov. Magn. Vol. 31 (10), 3323-30 (2018).
“Development of microwave susceptors based on SiC composites and their application for a one-step synthesis of ZnO nanostructures” Ceramics International Vol. 44(7), 7674 (2018)
“Ultrahigh-flux and fouling-resistant membrane based on layered silver/MXene(Ti3C2Tx) nanosheets” Journal of materials Chemistry A Vol. 6, 3522-33 (2018).
“Graphene nanoplatelets doping of P3HT:PCBM photoactive layer of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells for enhancing performance” Nanotechnology Vol. 29, 105405 (2018).
“Nanoelectromagnetic of the N-doped single wall carbon nanotube in the extremely high frequency band”, Nanoscale Vol. 9, 14192 – 14200 (2017).
“Towards an optimum silicon heterojunction solar cell configuration for high temperature and high light intensity environment” Energy Procedia Vol. 124, 331-337 (2017).
“Emerging technologies in crystal growth of Photovoltaic Silicon: Progress and Challenges”, Energy Procedia Vol. 130, 7-13 (2017).
“Structural and Optical Characterization of an Easy to Scale up TiO2 Thin Films Prepared by Adsorptive Self-Assembly” Scientific Reports Vol. 7, 9466, (2017).
“Photoluminescence quenching, structures, and photovoltaic properties of ZnO nanostructures decorated plasma grown single walled carbon nanotubes” Journal of Nanoparticle Research Vol. 19, 157 (2017).
“Energy Yield in Hot & Sunny Climates: Impact of Silicon Solar Cell Architecture and Cell Interconnection” Energy & Environmental Science 2017, 10, 1196-1206 (2017).
“Effect of the structure, temperature and metal work function on the performance of organometallic perovskite solar cells” Journal of Elec. Materi. Vol. 46, 1806-10 (2017).
“Transport properties of a highly conductive 2D Ti3C2Tx MXene/Graphene composite” Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 043109 (2016).
“Structural and physical properties of the dust particles in Qatar and their influence on the PV panel performance” Scientific Reports 6, 31467 (2016).
“First-principles study on the structural, electronic, magnetic and thermodynamic properties of full Heusler alloys Co2VZ (Z = Al, Ga)” Journal of electronic materials 46, 130-142, (2016).
“Theoretical investigation of the structural, electronic, magnetic and elastic properties of binary cubic C15-Laves phases TbX2 (X = Co and Fe)” J. Alloys and compounds 689, 885–893 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.08.046
“A theoretical prediction of the paradoxical surface free energy for FCC metallic nanosolids”, Applied Surface Science 379, 411-414, (2016).
Refereed proceedings and conferences papers
“Low-temperature PECVD deposition of highly conductive n-type microcrystalline silicon thin films for optoelectronic applications” proceeding of the 2022 IEEE 49th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC),
“Field-assessment of anti-soiling Glass surfaces prepared by oxygen-plasma treatment” proceeding of the 2022 IEEE 49th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC).
“Preparation of Plasmonic Ag and Au Nanoparticle Interfaces for Photocurrent Enhancement in Si Solar Cells” proceeding of the 2022 IEEE 49th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC).
“Hydrophilic Silica Thin Films Formed by Acetone treatment for Field assessment PV Soiling Application” proceeding of the 2022 IEEE 49th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC).
“Field assessment of Transparent Conductive Oxides Stability Under Outdoor Conditions” proceedings of the 2022 IEEE 49th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC).
“P-type N doped SnOx using Magnetron Sputtering and Post Plasma Treatment” Proceeding of the European Materials Research Society EMRS Spring 2021.
“Soiling Rate Determination from Referenced Systems in Desert Climate using PVInsight Soiling Algorithm” proceeding of the 2021 IEEE 48th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), pp 2552-2554. doi: 10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518459
“Thermal Behavior and Photovoltaic Performance of Monofacial and Bifacial Silicon Heterojunction Modules Under Desert Condition” proceeding of the 2021 IEEE 48th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), pp: 0843-0845. doi: 10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518402
“Optical-electrical-thermal optimization of plasmon-enhanced solar cell” proceeding of the 2021 IEEE 48th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), pp: 0060-0067. doi: 10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518631
“Optical fiber sensor for atmospheric reentry experiments” Proc. SPIE 11852, International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2020, Vol. 11852, pp: 118523G1-12 (11 June 2021); doi: 10.1117/12.2599547
“High Electron-Mobility of a Transparent and Conductive Zr-Doped In2O3 Deposited by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering,” 2021 IEEE 48th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2021, pp. 0071-0073, doi: 10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518643.
"Tuning the Structural and Optoelectronic Properties of Sub-stoichiometric Molybdenum Trioxide (MoOx, x < 3) Thin Films through the Oxygen Flow During the Reactive Magnetron Sputtering Deposition," 2021 IEEE 48th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2021, pp. 0068-0070, doi: 10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518553.
“Optimized design of silicon heterojunction solar cells for field operating conditions” Proceedings of the Asia PVSEC 2019, Nov. 4-8, 2019, Xi'an, China.
“Impact of the Oxygen Content on the Optoelectronic Properties of the Indium-Tin-Oxide Based Transparent Electrodes for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells” AIP Conference Proceedings 2147, 030001 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5123827
“Impact of the Oxygen Flow during the Magnetron Sputtering Deposition on the Indium Tin Oxide thin films for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cell” 2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2019, pp. 2659-2666, doi: 10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980906.
“Development of N-Type Amorphous and Microcrystalline Hydrogenated Silicon-Oxides (SiOx:H) and Investigation of their Impact as Window Layers on Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells Device" 2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2019, pp. 2667-2674, doi: 10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980556.
“Nanocrystalline silicon oxide stacks for silicon heterojunction solar cells for hot climates” AIP Conference Proceedings 1999, 030001 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5049262, (2018).
“Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells on Quasi-mono Wafers” proceedings of the Silicon PV 2018, 19-21 March 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland. (2018).
“Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells on Quasi-mono Wafers,” 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC) (A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC & 34th EU PVSEC), 2018, pp. 314-316, doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547935.
“Approaching 22 % solar cell efficiency with moonlike silicon” proceedings of the 35th EU PVSEC 2018, 24-28 September 2018, Brussels, (2018).
“Nanocrystalline silicon oxide stacks for silicon heterojunction solar cells for hot climates” proceedings of the EU-PVSEC 2018, 24-28 September 2018, Brussels, Belgium, (2018).
“Nanocrystalline Silicon Oxide Stacks for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells for Hot Climates” Proceedings of the Silicon PV 2018, 19-21 March 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland. (2018).
“Heterojunction solar cell exceeding 20 % efficiency using gettered mono-like silicon wafers” Qatar Foundation annual research conference proceedings, V 2018 N1, EEPD548, Doha. https://doi.org/10.5339/qfarc.2018, HBKU Press (2018).
“TEM and SAXS Investigation of Self-assembled 2D Structures of PbS Quantum-Dots Deposited onto Different Underlying Substrates” Microscopy & Microanalysis, 24, S1, 2018, pp. 1590-1591, https://doi:10.1017/S1431927618008437, (2018).
“DTVAC Dusty Planetary Thermo-VACuum Simulator”, Proceeding of the 47th International Conference on Environmental Systems, published in a special issue of AIAA, Article 2017-35, 16 pp (2017).
“Impact of the Infrared Response of Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells on Temperature Coefficient and Energy Yield” accepted as a proceeding paper at EUPVSEC, Silicon Photovoltaics Subtopic 2.5: Characterization & Simulation Methods, to be held on 25 - 29 Sept. 2017, Amsterdam. The Netherlands, (2017).
"Energy Yield in Hot & Sunny Climates: Impact of Silicon Solar Cell Architecture and Cell Interconnection," 2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2017, pp. 3435-3438, doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366703.
“Temperature dependencies of different silicon solar cell architectures: from cells to modules”. Proceedings of the International PVSEC-26, 28 October 2016, Singapore, Special issue of Progress in Photovoltaics, research and applications, Pages: i, 475-676, Volume 25, Issue 7, (2016).
“Highly Conductive 2D Ti3C2Tx (MXene)/Graphene composite: synthesis and electrical transport study”, Proceeding of the MRS fall meeting, Symposium NM2: 2D Layers and Heterostructures beyond Graphene—Theory, Preparation, Properties and Devices. Paper NM2.6.32, Boston, USA, Nov. 29, 2016. (2016).
“Improvement of the exciton dissociation efficiency in hybrid OPV devices by the incorporation of carbon Nanomaterials” Proceeding of the IEEE-ICPRE conference, Shanghai, China, Oct. 23, 2016. (2016).
“Gas sensor based on RFID tag antenna for harsh environment,” proceeding of the IEEE Int. Sym. on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), 2016, pp. 1271-1272. doi: 10.1109/APS.2016.7696343. (2016).
“High Temperature Optical Fiber Sensor for Atmospheric re-entry” In proceeding of International Conference on Space Optics ICSO, Proceedings Volume 10562, International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2016; 105620Z; doi: 10.1117/12.2296185 (2017).
“Morphology, Photoluminescence and Photovoltaic Properties of Laser Processed ZnO/carbon Nanotube Nanohybrids” Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings, V2016 N 1, EEPP 2245, HBKU Press, (2016).
“Engineering of High-Performance Solar Cells for Harsh Desert Environment Applications” Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings, V 2016 N1, EEPP 3363, HBKU Press, (2016).
“Growth of Hybrid Perovskites (HP) Light Harvesting Layer and TiO2 Electron Transport Material for Solar Cells Application” Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings, V 2016 N1, EESP 2698, HBKU Press, (2016).
“CNT-RFID passive tag antenna for gas sensing in underground mine” Proceeding of the IEEE international symposium on antennas and propagation and North American Radio Science meeting, 19-25 July 2015, Vancouver, Canada. pp 1758-1759, DOI: 10.1109/APS.2015.7305268. (2015).
- Co-author of two (2) certified world record efficiency for Quasi-Mono Silicon heterojunction solar cell (QEERI/EPFL joint program).
- PhD work selected in the best TOP-10 scientific discovery in Canada.
- PhD and MS theses awarded by the top prize for the best scientific achievement.
- Samples selected to be saved in the Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa, Canada.
- Laureate of the “Outstanding achievements award” from the Fondation Club Avenir, Canada.
- Winner of the “Young Investigator Award”, QEERI, HBKU, Doha, 2015.
- Winner of the “Exceptional Performance Award”, MPB Technologies Inc. Montreal, Canada, 2014.
- Laureate of the prestigious “Networking/Partnering Initiative fellowship” from the European Space agency (NPI-ESA), Amsterdam, Netherland, May 2013. This fellowship has been awarded to 6 laureates over the world.
- Laureate of the “Australian Endeavor Research Fellowship”, from the Australian Government, Brisbane, Australia, Dec. 2013.
- Laureate of the “NSERC-Industrial Research and Development Fellowship” Ottawa, Canada, 2010-2012.
- Published more than 170 refereed journal articles and reviewed conference papers and over 100 participations (including 15 invited talks) in international conferences.
- Published three (3) Books, 5 books under contract with IET publisher (UK).
- Three (3) papers selected as Cover Magazine pages.
- Senior fellow of the UNESCO chair of Nanoscience and nanotechnology (UNISA/South Africa).
- Senior fellow of the African Network in Nanoscience (NANOAFNET/South Africa).
- Fellow of the UNESCO Chair (MATECSS/Canada) in Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage.
- Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM/Sweden).
- Full member of the prestigious Sigma Xi Society of knowledge (McGill Chapter/Canada)
- Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- Member of the Institute of Physics.
- Member of the American Chemical Society
- Member of the American Physical Society.
- Elected Senior Member IEEE, July 2021.
- IOCD-UNESCO member since May 2021 (International Organization for Chemical Sciences in Development).
- Top prize for the best PhD achievement (2010, INRS-ÉMT, Quebec), Canada.
- Top prize for the best MS achievement (2005, INRS-ÉMT, Quebec), Canada.
- Winner of the 2009 “Research diffusion prize” from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
- Winner of the 2005 “Research diffusion prize” from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
- FQRNT (Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la nature et les technologies) President’s Congratulations Letter for PhD achievements, 2009, Québec, Canada.
- Australian Minister for Education Congratulations Letter for the Australian Endeavor Award. Dec. 2013.
- Awarded a fellowship from the Italian foreign office for a Lab Abroad scientific Stay (University Roma Tor Vergata).
- Winner of the travel award, EMC’ conference. Pennsylvania, USA.
- 7 times best presentation award (posters and Talks).
Dr. Nassma Salim Mohandes
Research Associate
Educational Qualifications
MSc, Master of Science in computing
BSc, Computer Engineering
Entity
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
Biography
Eng. Nassma Mohandes received her BSc degree with honors in Computer Engineering and her MSc degree in Computing 2013 from Qatar University. She is a Research Associate at Qatar Environmental and Energy Research Institute. Her current research interests include information systems, data mining, GIS, big data storage, and energy data analytics. Prior to joining QEERI she worked with the Qatar National Research Fund for three years where she provided all levels of technical and user support, maintenance, and resolution of software applications issues, and performed timely and regular back-up operations for QNRF's database and SQL DB administration. She is now a PhD student at Texas A&M university. The topic of her PhD research is modelling residential adoption of solar energy in Qatar and the Gulf area.
MSc, Master of Science in computing
Qatar University, Qatar
2013
BSc, Computer Engineering
Qatar University, Qatar
2008
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A &M University ,College station
2015-now
ITC Assistant
QNRF, Qatar Foundation
2008-2012
Research Associate
QEERI, Qatar Foundation
2014-Now
Modeling Residential Adoption of Solar PV in Qatar. Advances in Complex Systems: A Multidisciplinary Journal.
In Computer Design and Applications (ICCDA), 2010 International Conference On (Vol. 1, pp. V1-550).
An Adaptive Multi-Modeling Approach to Solar Nowcasting. Solar Energy, 125, 77-85.
Optimal Selection of Training Datasets for Solar Nowcasting Models. Proceedings of the 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 20 - 24 June 2016, Munich, Germany.
Modeling Residential Adoption of Solar PV in Qatar. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer.
- Thenaa Award from the Director of Qatar National Research Fund, 2011
- Golden Medal of Excellence from Qatar University, 2008
- First prize at UREP Second Competition, 2010
- Study Scholarship by Emir of Qatar, 2004
Dr. Hamdy Mubarak Hussien
Principal Software Engineer
Dr. Hamdy Mubarak Hussien
Principal Software Engineer
Educational Qualifications
BSc in Computer Science
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Division
Arabic Language Technologies
Biography
Hamdy Mubarak Hussien is a Principal Software Engineer at the Qatar Computing Research Institute of Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He joined QCRI in 2014 and has participated in building state-of-the-art tools for processing the standard, classical, and dialectal varieties of Arabic (farasa.qcri.org), QATS Speech Transcription and Translation (qats.qcri.org and st.qcri.org), IYAS Question Answering, and Fake News Detection (tanbih.org) projects in addition to leading the efforts in analyzing social media texts (asad.qcri.org). He works on different aspects of the Arabic LLM, Fanar.
Before joining Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamdy Mubarak was the Arabic NLP R&D manager at Sakhr Software from 1994 to 2013 working on morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis of Arabic and building commercial NLP applications for governments. He has published 120+ papers in top-tier conferences on computational linguistics, speech, and social computing.
BSc in Computer Science
Alexandria University, Egypt
1992
- Arabic natural language processing
- Social media analysis
- AI for social good
- LLMs
Principal Software Engineer
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2014 - Present
Arabic R&D Manager
Arabic Language, Sakhr Software, Egypt
2003 - 2013
Software Manager
Digital Communication, Ellipsis Digital Systems, United States
2001 - 2003
Senior Project Manager
Arabic Language, Sakhr Software, Egypt
1994 - 2001
Complete Publication Listing(s): Google Scholar
- Best of Gitex, 1996, Best Arabic Diacritizer.
- Best of Gitex, 1999, Best Arabic Spell and Grammar Checker.
- NIST09 Open Machine Translation A2E Human Assessment (1st Rank), Ottawa, Canada.
- Best Innovation Award (QATS), Annual Research Conference 2018, Qatar Foundation
- King Salman Global Academy Award for Best Arabic NLP Institute (Saudi Arabia, 2023)
Dr. Muhammad Imran
Senior Scientist
Dr. Muhammad Imran
Senior Scientist
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Computer Science
MSc. Computer Science
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Division
Social Computing
Biography
Dr. Muhammad Imran is a Senior Scientist and Lead of the Crisis Computing team at Qatar Computing Research Institute. Dr. Imran received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Trento in 2013. He then worked as a Research Scientist at QCRI from 2015-2020.
Dr. Imran has published over 80 research papers in top-tier international conferences and journals, including ACL, SIGIR, ICDM, ICWSM, and WWW. Four of his papers received the "Best Paper Award" and two "Best Paper Runner-up Award." He has been serving as a co-chair of the Social Media Studies track of the ISCRAM international conference since 2014 and has served as Program Committee for many major conferences and workshops.
PhD in Computer Science
University of Trento; Trento, Italy
2013
MSc. Computer Science
Mohammad Ali Jinnah University; Islamabad, Pakistan
2007
BS Computer Science
Allama Iqbal Open University; Islamabad, Pakistan
2003
Senior Scientist
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Apr 2021 - Present
Scientist
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Dec 2014 - Apr 2021
Postdoc
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Apr 2013 - Dec 2014
Research Associate
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Jun 2012 - Sep 2012
Database Administrator & Developer
National Uniersity of Science and Technology, Pakistan
Jul 2007 - Aug 2008
Processing Social Media Messages in Mass Emergency: A Survey; ACM Computing Surveys; https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2771588
Processing Social Media Images by Combining Human and Machine Computing During Crises; In the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI); https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10447318.2018.1427831?journalCode=hihc20
Humanitarian Health Computing using Artificial Intelligence and Social Media: A Narrative Literature Review; In the International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI); https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1386505618300212
Classifying and Summarizing Information from Microblogs during Epidemics; Journal of Information Systems Frontiers; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10796-018-9844-9
Domain Adaptation with Adversarial Training and Graph Embeddings; 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL); https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P18-1099
Identifying Sub-events and Summarizing Information during Disasters; 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3210030
From Situational Awareness to Actionability: Towards Improving the Utility of Social Media Data for Crisis Response; 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW); https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3274464
Using AI and Social Media Multimodal Content for Disaster Response and Management: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions. In the Information Processing and Management (IPM) journal, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102261
Non-Traditional Data Sources: Providing Insights into Sustainable Development. Communications of the ACM (CACM), 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3447739.
Deep Learning Benchmarks and Datasets for Social Media Image Classification for Disaster Response. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ASONAM49781.2020.9381294
Are We Ready for this Disaster? Towards Location Mention Recognition from Crisis Tweets. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.550
Detecting Natural Disasters, Damage, and Incidents in the Wild. In Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58529-7_20
GeoCoV19: A Dataset of Hundreds of Millions of Multilingual COVID-19 Tweets with Location Information. ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, May, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3404111.3404114
Rapid Damage Assessment Using Social Media Images by Combining Human and Machine Intelligence. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), Virginia, USA, 2020. DOI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06675
Automatic Identification of Eyewitness Messages on Twitter During Disasters. In the Journal of Information Processing and Management (IP&M), 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102107
Summarizing Situational Tweets in Crisis Scenarios: An Extractive-Abstractive Approach. In IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems Journal (IEEE TCSS), 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSS.2019.2937899
- 2016; Best Paper Award; International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management; Rio de Janeiro/Brazil
- 2013; Best Paper Award; International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management; Baden-Baden/Germany
- 2017; Runner-up Best Paper Award; International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management; Albi/France
- 2015; Grand Prize at the Open Source World Challenge; South Korea ICT ministry; South Korea
- 2016; WISH Innovation Competition; WISH organizers; Doha/Qatar
- 2017; World Intellectual Property Day award; The Ministry of Economy and Commerce Qatar; Doha/Qatar
- 2007; Distinguished Position holder in MSc; Mohammed Ali Jinnah University; Islamabad/Pakistan
Dr. Mohamad Saad
Research Scientist
Dr. Mohamad Saad
Research Scientist
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Statistical Genetics/Biostatistics
MSc in Statistics/Biostatistics
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Division
Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence
Biography
Dr. Mohamad Saad is a Research Scientist in the Data Analytics group at Qatar Computing Research Institute. He joined QCRI in February 2017 and works on topics in Statistical Genetics, Biostatistics, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Saad has a background in applied mathematics and statistics. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics (Majoring in Statistics) at the Lebanese University in 2006, before he moved to France where he obtained his master's degree in Statistics/Biostatistics from the University of Montpellier II, Monpellier in 2007, and his PhD in Statistical Genetics/Biostatistics/Bioinformatics from the University of Paul Sabatier III, Toulouse, in 2012. In Summer 2012, he moved to the United States for a Postdoctoral Senior Fellow position at the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington, Seattle, as a Postdoctoral Senior Fellow and stayed until Fall 2016. Dr. Saad has many peer-reviewed articles in top-tier journals including Nature Genetics, The Lancet, and Genome Research.
PhD in Statistical Genetics/Biostatistics
University of Paul Sabatier III & National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Toulouse, France.
2009 - 2012
MSc in Statistics/Biostatistics
Montpellier, France.
2006 - 2007
BSc in Applied Mathematics
Major in Statistics, Beirut, Lebanon.
2002 - 2006
Research Scientist
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar.
2017 - Present
Postdoctoral Senior Fellow
Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
2012 - 2016
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Faculty of Medical Sciences, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.
2014 - Present
Large Scale Meta Analysis of Genome-wide Association Data in Parkinson’s Disease Reveals 28 Distinct Risk Loci. Nature Genetics, 46(9):989-93
Wood NW, Imputation of sequence variants for identification of genetic risks for Parkinson’s disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies. Lancet, 377(976, 2011
Comparison and assessment of family- and population-based genotype imputation methods in large pedigrees, Genome Research, 125-134, 10.1101/gr.236315.118.
GIGI-Quick: a fast approach to impute missing genotypes in genome-wide association family data. Bioinformatics, 1;34(9):1591-1593, 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx782.
Association score testing for rare variants and binary traits in family data with shared controls. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 18;20(1):245-253, 10.1093/bib/bbx107.
Power of Family-Based Association Designs To Detect Rare Variants in Large Pedigrees Using Imputed Genotypes. Genet Epidemiol, 38(1):1-9.
Genome-wide association study confirms BST1 and suggests a locus on 12q24 as the risk loci for Parkinson’s disease in the European population. Hum Mol Genet, 20(3):615-27.
Use of Support Vector Machines for disease risk prediction in genome-wide association studies: concerns and opportunities. Human Mutation, 33 (12), 1708-1718.
2014: James V. Neel Young Investigator Award for the Best Presentation by a Young Investigator at the International Genetic Epidemiology Society, Vienna, Austria, August 2014.