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Director
Prof.Muftah El-Naas
Acting GPC Director / QAFCO Chair Professor in Chemical Process Engineering
CO2 capture and sequestration; biotechnology, water treatment and purification, membrane separation and plasma technology muftah@qu.edu.qa +974 4403 7695 +974 4403 4131 F 103
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Dr. Muftah El-Naas has been recently appointed as the QAFCO Chair Professor at the Gas Processing Center, College of Engineering. He obtained a B. A. Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, Canada, M. Eng. and PhD in Chemical Engineering from McGill University, Canada. Prof. El-Naas previously served as Chair of the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, Director of the Petroleum Science and Engineering Graduate Program, and Director of Research Funding at the UAE University. Dr. El-Naas authored more than 130 papers in international journals and conferences, in addition to several book chapters and patent applications. His area of expertise include: CO2 capture and sequestration; biotechnology; water treatment and purification; membrane separation; and plasma technology. Most of his recent research work focuses on the development of new, environmental-friendly technologies for the Oil and Gas industry. Dr. El-Naas is a member of the Canadian Society of Chemical Engineers, a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, a senior member of the Asia-Pacific Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society and a Fellow of the International Congress of Chemistry and Environment. He is a recipient of several awards, including the UAE University College of Engineering Best Performance Award for Excellence in Scholarship (2008 and 2015) and the Asian Education Leadership Award in Chemical Engineering for two years (2013 and 2014).
Faculty
Prof.Simon Judd
Research Professor
Process Water and Waste water treatment simon.judd@qu.edu.qa
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Simon Judd occupies the Maersk Oil Professorial Chair in Environmental Engineering at the Gas Processing Center, Qatar University. He was Professor in Membrane Technology at the Cranfield Water Science Institute at Cranfield University for 24 years. He has over 26 years’ post-doctorate experience in academic and industrial research and development incorporating all aspects of water and wastewater treatment technology, with an extensive network of contacts within the water industry both nationally and internationally from procuring and/or managing a number of large collaborative R&D programmes. Prof. Judd has managed many other research projects which have primarily been based on membrane technology, successfully supervising 30 research student programmes (22 at doctorate level). He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed research literature, with over 170 publications and an h index of 39 according to SCOPUS and 50 on Google Scholar (as at September 2016). Professor Judd has (co-)authored five textbooks in membrane and MBR technology and two in general water/wastewater treatment technology. He has provided keynote presentations at many international conferences as well as consultancy to clients based across Europe, America, the Middle East and Far East. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Associate Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.
Dr.Abdelbaki Benamor
Assistant Research Professor
Dr.Mustafa Saleh Nasser
Assistant Research Professor
Rheology of Complex fluids, Colloids and Interfaces, Water Treatment m.nasser@qu.edu.qa (+974) 4403-4380 4403 4371 F134
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Rheology of Complex fluids: I am interested in the characterisation of the properties of complex fluids such as colloidal dispersions, polymers, polyelectrolytes, emulsions, viscoelastic surfactant and bio-surfactants. Waste water treatment: I am interested in the treatment of industrial wastewater treatments. My current focus is the treatment of the produced water form oil and gas production Download Resume
Dr.Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussein
Upstream Research Professor
Polymer, EOR, water control ihussein@qu.edu.qa (+974) 4403-7694 (+974) 4403-4371
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Dr. Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussein is an Upstream Research Professor at the Gas Processing Center. He was a former Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at KFUPM. He was also a former Assistant Director of the Center of Research Excellence in Petroleum Refining and Petrochemicals at KFUPM. Dr. Hussein obtained his PhD from the Chemical and Materials Engineering Department at University of Alberta, Canada in 1999. The title of his PhD thesis was “Molecular Order, Miscibility, and Rheology of Molten Polyethylenes”. His PhD Thesis won the Canadian Society of Rheology Graduate Student Award for the year 1999. He joined KFUPM in January 2000. His specialization is in the areas of Polymers, Rheology, and Thermal Analysis with specific interest in structure-property relationships with focus on polymer-polymer miscibility, and rheology of multiphase systems. Through his academic life, Dr. Hussein received many Awards, Scholarships, Prizes and Nominations at University of Khartoum, Sudan and University of Alberta, Canada. Dr. Hussein is actively involved in research in the area of polymers with more than 110 refereed journal papers and many conference publications. Dr. Hussein received “KFUPM Distinguished Research Award” in 2005, 2010 and 2015. Dr. Hussein is the Chemical Engineering Editor of the Arabian Journal for Science. His work experience includes four years in the oil industry in Sudan, two years (1992-94) at KFUPM as a lecturer, and about one year at University of Alberta as postdoctoral fellow. This in addition to about 16 years of teaching as a Professor at KFUPM. His current research interests include Rheology of Complex fluids, enhanced oil recovery, water control in oil and gas reservoirs, stimulation and scale removal. More information about his publications are available through these links.
Dr.Mahmoud Mohamad Khader
Research Professor
mmkhader@qu.edu.qa (+974) 4403-4660 4403 4371 F133
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Surface science & Catalysis: Carbon dioxide capturing and conversion, using core-shell catalysts for methane oxidation steam reforming and SO2 removal on activated carbon fibers. * Solar energy conversion on: Silicon nanowires (SNW) and Gas
Post Doctoral Researchers
Dr.Pompilia Buzatu
Post-Doctoral Researcher
membrane bioreactors, waste-water treatment Pompilia.Buzatu@qu.edu.qa 4403 4385 F104 Dr. Pompilia Buzatu is a research associate at the Gas Processing Center, within the College of Engineering, Qatar University. She has received her PhD in the field of membrane bioreactors for wastewater treatment at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
Before joining GPC, Dr. Buzatu has worked as postdoctoral researcher at RWTH Aachen University and DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, both located in Aachen, Germany. Her research focused on filtration of responsive microgels–in particular on finding innovative ways of delaying membrane fouling–as well as on developing flow-field flow fractionation methods for the determination of the microgels’ size.
As part of the GPC, Dr. Buzatu works on mitigating clogging within the membrane channels during biological treatment of produced water, a problem well known for practitioners but largely ignored by the scientific community.
Dr.Ahmed Al Ketife
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Algal bioreactor design, modelling and scale up, microalgae cultivation process developments, wastewater bioremediation and CO2 biofixation. F203 Ahmed Al ketife is currently a researcher at Gas Processing centre, Qatar University. He was a researcher and sessional academic staff at Curtin University, Australia. Ahmed is a qualified process engineer with a proven track record of practical research programme development, completion and timely delivery of outputs as publications in peer reviewed literature (6 papers completed, and one currently submitted), and with two international conference presentations.
Researchers
Mr.Musaab Ibrahim Magzoub
Researcher
m.magzoub@qu.edu.qa 4403 7728 Eng. Musaab Ibrahim Magzoub is a Research Assistant at the Gas Processing Center, College of Engineering, Qatar University. He graduated from the University of Khartoum with First Class Honors in Petroleum Engineering in 2009. He then received a scholarship to pursue graduate studies and obtained his MSc from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals in 2015. He has more than 5 years of work experience, including 2 years in the Oil & Gas industry as a field Engineer and 3 years in research. He has 5 published papers and one grant US Patent. His research areas are Drilling Fluids formulation for high temperature oil and gas applications, Enhanced oil recovery, and Oil and gas Produced water treatments and managements.
Administration
Mr.Mohamed Nafez Sheldan
Training Coordinator
mohamed.sheldan@qu.edu.qa (+974) 4403-5805 (+974) 4403 4371 F138 Mohamed Sheldan is a training Specialist at the GPC. He graduated from the Business College, Qatar University (Class 2011). As a Bachelor student in Management and Marketing, he worked as an events coordinator in the British Council from 2012 to 2013 where he was coordinating cultural and educational events. He then worked for Qatar University as a Financial Coordinator in the Finance Department. A year after, he shifted to the GPC as a training specialist to coordinate between global trainers in the oil and gas industry, specialized in the areas of gas processing, drilling, safety, catalyst and any other related topics required by the national oil and gas companies to fulfill the center social goals of providing the industrial partners with the recent technologies in the gas and oil industry.
Research Assistants
Mr.Nafis Mahmud
Research Assistant
chemical kinetics and CCS technology n.mahmud@qu.edu.qa F203 Mr Nafis Mahmud is research assistant working under Dr. Abdelbaki Benamor. He received his bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering from Qatar University. Currently, he is pursuing his Master’s in Environmental Engineering. His research focuses on chemical kinetics and CCS technology.
Eng.Ahmed Gomaa Talkhan
Research Assistant
Technicians
Eng.Ahmed Mohamed Soliman
Analytical Chemist
asoliman@qu.edu.qa (+974) 4403-4383 4403 4371 F108 More than 19 years’ experience in laboratory quality control activities in refining, LNG, petrochemical labs. preparation of scope of work & technical specifications, bid analysis, review of purchase requests, instrument troubleshooting, Pilot Plant study (FAT) & investigation, lab personnel management, testing and commissioning of analytical instrument also provided technical information and support to professors and staff who are conducting research in the GPC . worked in the office of quality management as Quality Coordinator for ISO 17025 accreditation. Monitor and maintain a safe working environment in compliance with Health and Safety procedures.
Eng.Dan Jerry D. Cortes
Senior laboratory technician
dan.cortes@qu.edu.qa F108 Dan Jerry D. Cortes is a senior laboratory technician at GPC. He began his career in the engineering division of a Japanese materials and electronics company. He later spent some years in the operation of various process plants. He participated in the commissioning phase of the MARAFIQ IWPP (the world’s largest integrated water and power facility at the time it was built), and was the water dispatch engineer of MARAFIQ – Jubail in Saudi Arabia until July 2010. Along with the German engineer, he erected and commissioned five borosilicate glass pilot plants at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia.
He is a registered engineer in the Philippines, and currently finishing his MSc Nanotechnology thesis at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern in Germany. He successfully passed the examination conducted by the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (Qatar) for Radiation Protection Officer. He is a member of Institute of Physics and International Society of Automation.