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I have been teaching for the past forty years at Qatar University. During my career, I have taught many Organic Chemistry courses, including photochemistry & Research project. My research interests include Carbon dioxide conversion, Lithium-ion Batteries, Wastewater Treatment, and organic solar cells.

My Elsevier’s Scopus H-index is 25 with more than 2000 citations. I have received various competitive grants as a principal investigator from the Qatar National Research Fund, including six National Priorities Research Program funds (NPRP) and Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP). I have authored over 85 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and over 65 research abstracts and posters. I received the Fulbright Research Scholarship in 2011. I am supervising many students, research assistants, and postdoctoral fellows in my lab and acted as a reviewer for many Chemistry journals. I served as a Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences for five years. This deanship produced the accreditation of the chemistry program by the Canadian Society of Chemistry (CSC) and accreditation of the biomedical program by NAACLS, in addition to the establishment of the College of Pharmacy.

Professor

  • Oct. 2004July 1992

    Assistant Professor

    Dept. of Chemistry & Earth Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, Qatar University, Qatar

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    Lecturer

    Dept. of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Qatar University, Qatar

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    Teaching Assistant,

    Dept. of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Qatar University, Qatar

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    sample position

    ” pos_title=”Professor of Organic Chemistry ” pos_start=”Sept. 2012″ pos_end=”Present”]

  • June 2011Feb. 2010

    Visiting Fulbright Scholar

    School of Pharmacy, Moulder Center for Drug Discovery Research (MCDDR), Temple University, (working in the Prof. Magid Abou-Gharbia’s research team), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Education

 

Ph.D. July 1992:

 

  

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), (Organic Photochemistry), Entitled

“Factors Influencing the Photocycloaddition of Ethenes to Disubstituted Benzenoid Compounds”, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom.

Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Gilbert.

 
M.Sc. Dec. 1987:

 

 Master of Science, (Organic Synthesis), Entitled “Study on Pyrazolidinedione and its Derivatives”, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Supervisor: Prof. A. A. Sammour & Ibrahim S. Al-Nuaimi
 

B.Sc. June 1981:

 

  

Bachelor of Science, – Excellent grade – (Major Chemistry), Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
  • lvl July 1992

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

    University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom.

  • lvl Dec. 1987

    Master of Science (MSc)

    Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

  • lvl June 1981

    Bachelor of Science (BSc)

    Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.

  • Feb. 2010– June 2011
    Fulbright Scholarship
    At School of Pharmacy, Moulder Center for Drug Discovery Research (MCDDR), Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA