Dr. Ayman Samara joined Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) Core Labs in 2015 as a Senior Scientist to help establish the optical microscopy lab, profilometry lab, thermal analysis lab, and thin film characterization. Dr. Samara is currently leading all analysis activities and manages the operations of these labs, supporting research at HBKU, local and global companies and educational institutes in Qatar. He obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in Optical Engineering and Science from the Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte, and his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan. Dr. Samara started his career in the semiconductor industry in 2005 at Intel Corporation’s D1D Fab in Portland, OR, USA, as a Senior Process Development Engineer leading the development of metrology and defect detection capabilities for the Lithography process supporting manufacturing of the 65-32nm technology nodes. In 2009, Dr. Samara served as the Manager of the Dimensional Metrology and Defect Analysis facility in the assembly materials characterization division of Intel Corporation. Prior to Joining HBKU, Dr. Samara served as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the American University of the Middle East in Kuwait, where he established the Optics Engineering lab and taught multiple EE courses.
 

Dr. Karthik Somasundaram joined Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) in July 2022 as a Scientist at the Energy Center. He has nine years of experience in energy storage research especially in the field of Li-ion battery since his PhD. Dr. Karthik received his PhD from National University of Singapore (NUS) in November 2012. His research focused on modeling of transport phenomena in Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors. After his PhD, he spent several years in Singapore working on several research projects at NUS, NTU-Rolls Royce Electrical focusing on multi-scale, multi-physics modeling of

Li-ion batteries related to performance, safety and durability. He also worked as a Li-S cell modeler for Oxis Energy in UK on a joint research project with Imperial College, London and Cranfield University. 

Before joining QEERI, Dr. Karthik worked as a Senior Engineer at Caterpillar India in the Advanced Power Products division focusing on development, parameterization, and utilization of mechanistic and empirical models for Li-ion battery cells to predict performance and aging under various operating conditions.

Prior to that, he worked for Renault-Nissan Technology Center in India focusing on optimizing battery cell designs using electrochemical-thermal models, developing machine learning models for process automation and shortlisting of materials. 

Abdulaziz Al-Emadi is a Research Assistant with Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, Qatar. He had preciously worked in Qatar Petroleum and RasGas companies as an Instruments Technician, following which he joined QEERI as a Lab Technician. Upon completion of his degree, he assumed the role of Research Assistant at QEERI. 

Eng. Radee Dami Alrewaily is a Research Engineer with the Water Center at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) in Doha, Qatar. Previously, he worked at Qatar Petroleum (now Qatar Energy) in the gas production sector as an operator. He received his bachelor degree of Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Wales, UK, following which he started working in Qatar Foundation from 2008. His current work projects include: - MED thermal desalination plant design and operation; - oil/water separation technology development for oil spill cleanup and produced water treatment; - AC condensate water recycling and reuse.

Usman Zafar is a Research Associate with the Energy Management Group at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) in Doha, Qatar. He is a certified Google Cloud Architect and also a certified Cloudera & GCP certified Data Engineer with broad experience in Machine learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech (Speaker Diarization) as demonstrated by his coursework experience and multiple publications in leading journals/conferences.  He is also well versed in modern neural architectures and adept in techniques that make use of pre-trained models such as transfer learning that are essential for companies with small datasets. While he has worked a lot in machine learning, he believes it would have been impossible to train huge datasets without the required data engineering skills, which he attained through practical work on Hadoop, Spark and Google Cloud, and by completing relevant Google Cloud and Cloudera certifications. Mr. Zafar has worked on technologies such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Spark etc. and has the skillset to handle data of any size. As an organized, detail-oriented person with strong communication skills, he believes one of his primary strengths is his ability to learn new technologies quickly and effectively. At QEERI, he works on designing software systems for IOT use-cases, machine learning for energy disaggregation and forecasting energy demand and optimization of locations for maximum demand where demand can be defined by the end-user. Prior to working at QEERI, he has worked at many other places including Schneider Electric and Texas A&M University. 

Dr. Anwar is a Scientist at Qatar Energy and Environment Research Institute (QEERI). He has more than 15 years of R&D experience in catalysis science, organic synthesis, and synthetic methodology development both in industry and academia. He received his DPhil in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, under Professor Mark Moloney. Later he worked with Professor Sir Jack Baldwin FRS at University of Oxford on various industrial projects related to catalytic methodology development, synthesis of bioactive compounds for pharmaceuticals, biomimetic and total synthesis, reaction cascade catalysis, retrosynthetic analysis. He has huge industrial research experience working for Roche (F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.), Pfizer UK), Galapagos (France), and Tocris Bioscience. His research expertise spans topics in Catalysis Science, Target & Diversity Oriented Synthesis, Asymmetric Catalysis, CO2 valorization, Molecular Building Block Design, Reaction Scale-Up, Retrosynthetic Methodologies, Total Synthesis, Reaction Engineering, Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical Science, Polymerization Chemistry, Circular Chemical Economy, and Fine Chemical Industry. He is also an active member of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Society of Chemical Industry (CSI) and American Chemical Society (ACS). 
 

Dr. Odi Alrebei has been the Head of the Aeronautical Engineering department and the Assistant Dean for R&D Affairs at Queen Noor Civil Aviation College. Dr. Alrebei has also been an Assistant Professor (Mechanical Engineering Department) in the American University-Jordan. His current research work is with Cambridge University, Oxford University and Qatar Foundation. Dr. Alrebei received his PhD in Engineering from Cardiff University, UK and his MSc from Queen Mary University of London, UK.
 

Dr. Pillai is an Electrical Engineer by profession, with a master's degree in Power Electronics and Drives, and a PhD degree in Photovoltaic (PV) Systems. He is currently a Scientist with the Energy Conversion (ENECON) Program at the Energy Center of QEERI. With QEERI, Dr. Pillai works on various projects and activities related to the testing, standardization, and reliability of photovoltaic modules in desert climates. Dr. Pillai is also actively involved in module as well as system level reliability studies and performance assessments of various PV technologies. Dr. Pillai is an inventor of a patent and author of 24 scientific articles published in top-tier international journals (Q1) and conferences, majority of which are high impact factor IEEE transactions, IEEE, and Elsevier journals. Since 2018, Dr. Pillai is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). 

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.