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Vision
At the HBKU Core Labs, our vision is to become a cornerstone of Qatar’s scientific community by offering unparalleled expertise, support, and state-of-the-art capabilities in various fields. We strive to elevate the research landscape by fostering a collaborative environment and focusing on cutting-edge materials research.
Our Core Labs are uniquely positioned to provide comprehensive solutions in materials characterization, failure root cause analysis, problem resolution, and thin film technology. Our team of dedicated experts works closely with researchers and industry professionals to ensure that the highest standards of quality and innovation are met.
Mission
At HBKU Core Labs, our mission is to become the laboratory of choice and a trusted partner for researchers, industry professionals, and academic institutions in Qatar. We are dedicated to providing exceptional quality, timely, and innovative characterization and imaging support, solutions, and services that adhere to the highest standards. Our commitment to excellence in research and development drives our contributions to scientific advancement, graduate education, and the local economy.
Our mission embodies our unwavering dedication to supporting Qatar’s progress towards its ambitious 2030 vision. By fostering collaboration, promoting research excellence, and equipping our facilities with cutting-edge technologies, we play a vital role in the nation’s journey towards a sustainable and knowledge-based future.
Objectives
- Offer technical imaging, characterization, and analytical support for HBKU’s researchers, faculty, and graduate students as well as scientific and technical communities in Qatar.
- Provide high quality and quick turnaround analytical support.
- Provide expertise and advice in materials characterization, failure root cause analysis, thin film technology, and problem-solving methodology.
- Build analytical capabilities and develop methodology considering lab users’ emerging analytical needs.
- Extend support for education and governmental institutions, as well as local industries.
- Build capacity.
- Pursue collaborative research.
- Bring in revenue in support of lab operation.
- Be Qatar’s technical community's lab-of-choice.
Core Values
Deliver Quality:
We strive to provide every customer with services and uncompromising quality results– accurate, precise, on time, quick, every time. We do that by dedicating ourselves to the promptness of reporting whilst safeguarding quality.
Leadership:
We strive to be the best at what we do both as a group, and as individuals. We embrace the qualities of personal leadership - competence, confidence, and a passion for surpassing expectations. We will provide growth opportunities for our staff, quality services to our customers and return on investment to Qatar.
Collaboration:
We believe in teamwork and the limitless possibilities of collaborative energy. It is also a way to prevent duplication and preserve resources. As partners, we welcome any suggestions for improvement and don’t mind constructive criticism.
Innovation:
We constantly seek innovative ways to improve, optimize and provide value to our customers. We seek continuous learning through the adaptation of existing knowledge, as well as through capabilities upgrades, with the full understanding that we learn from our customers, from our failures as well as our successes.
Accountability:
As a group and as individuals, we accept full responsibility for our results and acknowledge our accountability for the ultimate outcome of all that we do. We strive for continuous improvement, believing that competence, reliability, and rigorous adherence to analysis protocols are the keys to excellence.
Behaving safe:
Promote safety for lab staff, users, and all.