Pr. Samy El-Shall

Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

 

Title: Graphene-based Materials for Applications in Heterogeneous Catalysis, Water Treatment and Solar Water Desalination

 

Short-Bio: Pr. Samy El-Shall is the Mary Eugenia Kapp Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Commonwealth Professor and the Chairman of the Chemistry Department at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Cairo University (Egypt), and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University (Washington D.C., USA). He did postdoctoral research in nucleation and clusters at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA). His research interests are in the general areas of cluster ions, ion mobility, nucleation phenomena, nanostructured materials, graphene and nanocatalysis for energy and environmental applications. He has published over 260 refereed papers and review chapters, and he holds eight US patents on the synthesis of nanomaterials, nanoalloys, nanoparticle catalysts, graphene, and graphene-supported catalysts. (Google Scholar h-index = 51, citations > 10,000).  Dr. El-Shall received the Outstanding Faculty Award of the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV), Virginia's highest faculty honor in 1999; the Distinguished Research Award from the Virginia Section of the American Chemical Society in 2009; the VCU Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2011, and the VCU Award of Excellence in 2016. He was selected as a Jefferson Science Fellow and worked as a Senior Science Advisor at the U.S. Department of State in 2012-2013. Dr. El-Shall received the Virginia Outstanding Scientist Award in 2018 presented by the Governor of Virginia. He is an elected Fellow of both the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

 

Pr. Alex LI

Civil Engineering Laboratory, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France

 

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Short-Bio: Prof. Alex Li, is Director of Civil Engineering Laboratory - University of Reims - Champagne-Ardenne.

 

Pr. Mohamed BOUOUDINA

Nanotechnology Center, University of Bahrain

 

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Short-Bio: Pr. Mohamed Bououdina, has obtained Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France) in 1995. He has been a research fellow and academic at leading institutions in UK, Japan, France, etc. He has broad expertise; Nanotechnology and Energy. His achievements includes Invited talks,  270 Papers; 2 Books (indexed by Web of Science) and 20 Book Chapters; Editor (20) and Regular Reviewer (40) for International Journals. Department of Physics, College of Science, University of Bahrain, PO Box 32038, Kingdom of Bahrain 

 

Pr. Essawy HISHAM 

National Research Center, Egypt

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Title: Upgrading The Mechanical Properties and  Degradation Resistance of  Poly(vinyl chloride) Using Small additions of Vinyl-Functionalized silicone Elastomer

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Short-Bio: Pr. Essawy HISHAM, National Research Centre;  Polymeric Nanocomposites; Polymers and Pigments Department, National Research Center,. Dokki Cairo, Egypt. Poly(methacrylic acid-co-glycidylmethacrylate)

 

 

Pr. Elhem GHORBEL 

University of Cergy Pontoise, Paris Seine, France

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Title: Sustainable methods for repairing damaged concrete

 

Short-Bio: Pr. Elhem GHORBEL has completed his PhD at the age of 27 years in materials science and engineering from the National High Engineering School of Mines - Paris. She is Professor at the university of Cergy-Pontoise in the department of Civil Engineering (IUT) since 2003. She has several institutional activities and scientific responsibilities at the national and international levels. Her research interests cover the mix design, the mechanical and fracture behavior of materials (self-compacting and resin concretes, composites, polymers), the valorization of inert and industrial wastes in concrete, the repairing of concrete by composites, the durability of heterogeneous materials (aging, Chemical attacks, biodegradation and freezing-thawing resistance), …She has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and 100 conference papers. She is editorial board member of Advances in Civil Engineering and Modern Civil and Structural Engineering …She was member of organizing and scientific committees of more than 30 conferences.

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Assoc. Prof. Ma’an ALKHATIB

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International Islamic University Malaysia

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Title: Sustainable wastewater treatment: Fats, Oil and Grease (FOG) causes and treatment: as a case study

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Short-Bio:  Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ma’an Alkhatib is the Chair of River of Life (ROL) Flagship Project at International Islamic University Malaysia. He is the founder and chair of Friends of Pusu River and cofounder and Assistant secretary of the national NGO, Friends of Klang River Basin. He served as Coordinator for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research Group (NANORG) from 2007-2015. He also served as postgraduate, final year project, integrated design project coordinator. He is currently active member of NANORG and Bioenvironmental Engineering Research Centre (BERC). He obtained his Ph.D. in chemical and environmental engineering. His research focus is in areas lead to sustainable environment. He conducts research on sustainable water and wastewater treatment and nanomaterials (activated carbon, CNT, graphene, nanoparticles) for environmental applications. He has been working actively and closely with public and private institutions such as Indah Water (IWK, Malaysia's national sewerage company), NanoMalaysia Berhad, MYCDNET. He is also chairing a subcommittee in Ministry of Education Malaysia to promote active learning in Institutions of Higher Learning. He won the best teacher award at Faculty and University Levels. He has been appointed as fund applications reviewer. He is also member of editorial board of few peer reviewed journals. He is a member in professional engineering bodies: Jordan Engineers Association, CEng with The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) UK, The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). 

Email: maan@iium.edu.my