First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual
Bing,Guo,Associate Professor,"* Solar photovoltaic (PV) soiling
* Electrodynamic dust shield (EDS, or Dust Shield) technology
* Liquid fuel combustion using an aerosol shock tube (in collaboration with Dr. Eric Petersen)
* Photography and image analysis based quantification of soiling
* Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for aerosol transport and deposition
* Air quality and particulate air pollution
* Impact of dust on jet engines",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Mechanical Engineering (Qatar)||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n08c7f257
Berna,Hascakir,Associate Professor,"My research focuses on heavy oil and oil shale recovery with enhance oil recovery methods, diagnostic studies on reservoir rock and fluids, and produced water management.",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Energy Institute||Petroleum Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5a789a58
Ahmed,Abdala,Professor,"Professor Abdala research focuses on development of advanced materials for energy and environmental applications based on polymers and nanomaterials, including polymer nanocomposites, functionalized graphene materials, anticorrosion coatings, polymeric membranes for gas separation and water treatment, and nanohybirds of metal/metal oxides and 2D carbon nanomaterials for catalysis, adsorption, energy storage, and thermoelectric materials. In addition, Dr. Abdala has research interests in applications of polymers and surfactants for EOR.",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering (Qatar),https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6cdc74b2
Mohammad,Naraghi,Associate Professor,"The research interests of Dr. Naraghi include light weight and multifunctional materials, with an emphasis on carbonized micro and nanoscale reinforcements for energy-related applications, including wind energy sector and flywheels. He is an expert in the application of microelectromechanical system devices to characterize nanoscale materials.",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Aerospace Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7b5a0e03
David,Staack,Associate Professor,"Our research is focused on the experimental study of microscale and low temperature plasmas and devices which use plasmas and energetic electrons. The results and discoveries of this research have far reaching consequences in fields ranging from medicine and health, to integrated circuit manufacturing, to fossil fuel reforming, to spacecraft propulsion and the energy sector.",Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n86abc433
Choongho,Yu,Associate Professor,,Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute||Materials Science and Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/naeabbad3
Benjamin,Wilhite,Associate Professor,,Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb5dacbea
Mustafa,Akbulut,Associate Professor,"The Akbulut Lab is involved in research in various areas of nanotechnology, surface and interface science, with a special focus on the areas of drug delivery, biomedical interfaces, tribology, surface and intermolecular forces, colloidal stabilization, and crystallization.",Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering||Materials Science and Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb5e5f93d
Qingsheng,Wang,Associate Professor,"Our research is highly multidisciplinary in the process safety area with the intent to resolve the most critical safety problem in the industries, which is to prevent and mitigate hazardous phenomena including fire, explosion, and toxic release. The research is ranging from a molecular level, macroscale, plant level to an enterprise level. Topics include QSPR modeling, flame retardant, fire suppression, CFD modeling, pipeline corrosion, risk analysis, and leak detection. The research aims to bring perspectives of chemical engineering, chemistry, and fire protection engineering to energy industries and hence yield systematic solutions to process safety issues.",Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb67cfe14
Michael,Nippe,Associate Professor,"Our research focuses on inorganic molecular approaches to contribute to the development of novel systems for solar to energy conversion, small molecule activation, and molecules for information storage. Synthetic methods build the foundation of the group and are complimented by a broad array of spectroscopic and electrochemical techniques.
We are seeking students who are interested in creative inorganic synthesis, structure-function relationships in catalysis, electronic structure of heterometallic d-block/f-block complexes, and molecular species with unusual charges.",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Energy Institute||Chemistry,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbcad74f5
Xiaofeng,Qian,Associate Professor,"My research focuses on: Materials Theory, Discovery, and Design for Energy Applications and Device Design Aided by HighThroughput Computing; Two-Dimensional Materials and Their Coupled Multi-Physical Properties and Novel Device Concepts; Electronic, Thermal, Ionic, and Excitonic Transport in Nanostructured Materials; First-Principles Methodology Development towards Efficient and Accurate Prediction of Ground-state and Excited-state Properties of Materials; and Multiscale Materials Modeling of Complex Physical and Chemical Processes.",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor||Assistant Professor,Energy Institute||Materials Science and Engineering||Materials Science and Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd67bf9a1
Konstantinos,Kakosimos,Associate Professor,"Dr. Konstantinos E. Kakosimos is an associate professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He received his Chemical Engineering Diploma in 2002 and his Ph.D. in 2009 both from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has more than 55 peer-reviewed publications and four books/chapters in English and Greek languages. His main research activities are focused on the development and application of the tools needed to improve and sustain the quality of the environment. In 2014, he established the Sustainable Energy and Clean Air Research lab (SECAReLab) with unique facilities for the development and testing of solar-driven chemical processes and the associated equipment and materials. In brief, he conducts research on the experimental and numerical modeling of transport and reacting phenomena with applications in Environmental fluid mechanics and monitoring for air quality, Risk analysis and effects estimation of fires, explosions, and toxic gases dispersion, and Solar photo- and thermochemical processes, reactors, and materials. So far, he has received more than $5.5M of cumulative awards from external and internal sources.
Moreover, he researches new educational methods and techniques, for which he received the 2015 IChemE Hutchison medal. He is also the recipient of the 2016 Research Laboratory Safety, 2017 Research Excellence for Early Carrier Faculty, and 2019 Faculty Excellence Awards at Texas A&M. In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Kakosimos serves the local and international community variously, such as secretary of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - Arabian Gulf Branch (2014-15), Chair of the Principle Investigators Council at Texas A&M Qatar (2017-2018), Chair of the Qatar National Air Quality Standards subcommittee of the Ministry of Municipalities and Environment (2018), and task force member at the Ministry of Public Health (2018-today).",Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering (Qatar),https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ndbab886c
I. Yucel,Akkutlu,Professor,,Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Energy Institute||Petroleum Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nee5a7059