Faculty and Staff

Administrative Assistants

Department Head

Prof.Majeda Khraisheh Professor and Head of Department of Chemical Engineering

Water and Wastewater Treatment, Carbon Management and Conversion, Clean Energy, Ionic Liquids, Gas Hydrates Inhibition, Desalination m.khraisheh@qu.edu.qa +974 4403 4993 +974 4403 4131 BCR G119 Profile website

Faculty with Administrative Roles

Dr.Mohd Ali H. Saleh Assistant Professor (Director of The Gas Processing Center GPC)

Catalysis, Material synthesis, Air pollution control technology, Environmental applications m.saleh@qu.edu.qa +974 4403 4145 +974 4403 4131 BCR G220 Profile website

Professors

Prof.Bassim H. Hameed Professor

Catalytic Reaction Engineering, Adsorption b.hammadi@qu.edu.qa +974 4403 4142 +974 4403 4131 C07-278 Profile website

Prof.Ibrahim M. Abu-Reesh Professor

Biochemical Engineering & Environmental Biotechnology abureesh@qu.edu.qa +974 4403 4136 +974 4403 4131 BCR G222 Profile website

Prof.Ramazan Kahraman Professor

Material Science and Engineering, Transport Phenomena RamazanK@qu.edu.qa +974 4403 4124 +974 4403 4131 BCR G221 Profile website

Prof.Hazim Qiblawey Professor

Desalination and Water Reuse, Membrane Technology, Crystallization, Modeling and Simulation hazim@qu.edu.qa +974 4403 4137 +974 4403 4131 BCR F219 Profile website

Prof.Shaheen Al-Muhtaseb Professor

Advanced Materials for Separations (by Adsorption and Membrane Processes); and for Energy Storage and Conversion s.almuhtaseb@qu.edu.qa +974 4403 4139 +974 4403 4131 BCR E211 Profile website

Prof.Fares A. Almomani Professor, and Graduate Coordinator for Chemical and Environmental Engineering Programs

Wastewater treatment; Biological Reactors; Advanced Oxidation technologies falmomani@qu.edu.qa +974 4403 4140 +974 4403 4131 C07 - 282 Profile website

Associate Professors

Dr.Mohammed Al-Marri Associate Professor

Transfer Processes, Thermodynamics m.almarri@qu.edu.qa +974 4403 4131 +974 4403 4146 BCR H115 Profile website

Dr.Fadwa ElJack Associate Professor

Process Systems Engineering-Process Integration, Product and Process, Molecular Design and Process Safety Fadwa.Eljack@qu.edu.qa +974 4403 4141 +974 4403 4131 BCR H116 Profile website

Dr.Anand Kumar Associate Professor

Heterogeneous catalysis, Electro-catalysis, Hydrogen production, Methane reforming, CO2 conversion, Fuel cells, Combustion synthesis, Microfluidics akumar@qu.edu.qa +974 4403 4164 +974 4403 4131 C07 - 233 Profile website

Dr.Rahul R. Bhosale Associate Professor

Solar Thermal Processes, CO2 Capture and Utilization, Hydrogen Production, Material Synthesis and Applications, Computational Thermodynamic Modeling rahul.bhosale@qu.edu.qa +974 4403 4168 +974 4403 4131 C07 - 233 Profile website

Dr.Saad Ali Al-Sobhi Associate Professor

Modeling, Simulation, Optimization, Design of Sustainable Processes, Natural Gas Monetization saad.al-sobhi@qu.edu.qa +974 4403 4147 +974 4403 4131 BCR G123

Assistant Professors

Dr.Zeinab Abbas Jawad Assistant Professor

Membrane Technology, Nanotechnology, Gas Separation, Advanced Materials, Petroleum Refinery, Petrochemical Industries zjawad@qu.edu.qa 4403 4161 BCR-G220 Profile website

Dr.Seckin Karagoz Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering Multi-scale Modeling, Process, Intensification-Economy, Reaction engineering, CO2 Capture, Energy, Machine Learning Applications. skaragoz@qu.edu.qa BCR-H121 RESEARCH INTERESTS (Detailed) Research interests include: • Multi-scale Modeling and Simulation • Multi-scale model based experimental design. • The areas of reaction engineering and reactor design (Conventional reactors, Membrane reactors-MR Adsorbent reactors-AR and Hybrid reactors): Multi-scale modeling and simulation of transport in complex porous media; the study of transport and reaction phenomena in membranes, adsorbents, and catalysts. Experimental studies on MR, AR and hybrid reactors. • Process Synthesis, Design, Optimization, and Intensification: Simulation based optimal synthesis and design of process networks. Design and simulation of novel multi-product and energetic self-sufficient chemical plants. Application the novel intensification tools on the existing processes/plants. • Environment and Pollution Prevention: CO2 capture, utilization and storage. • Energy: Multi-scale modeling and simulation of energy systems, Hybrid reaction/separation systems for H2 production and electricity, analysis of biomass-based and hybrid energy/hydrogen production potentials and systems. • Economic profitability and sustainability assessment of chemical processes, through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Techno Economic Analysis (TEA). • Metal (Boron etc.) Combustion: Multi-scale Modeling and experimental studies on metal combustion processes. • Machine learning (Artificial Neural Networks etc.) applications on chemical processes and energy systems. • Nanozymes and its applications. • Applied mathematics.

Dr.Donghyun Kim Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering Membrane process, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Modeling, Bioenergy, Wastewater treatment dkim@qu.edu.qa BCR-G123 Profile website