Dr. Ayman S. El-Said

Chairman

Dr. Mohammad F. Al-Kuhaili
Chairman
Thin Films and Material Science

6/225 966-1-860-3747 kuhaili@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Distinguished Professor

Dr. Mohammad A. Gondal
Distinguished Professor
Laser Physics and Spectroscopy

6/259B 966-1-860-2351/3274 magondal@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Chair Professor

Name: Ayman Sherif El-Said
Title: Associate Professor
Brief Research Interests: Materials Modification using Ion Beam Technology
Research Areas

Tuning properties of 1D, 2D and 3D materials using highly energetic heavy ions
Surface nanostructuring using slow highly charged ions

Office: 6/228
Tel: 966-1-860-7561
Email: elsaid@kfupm.edu.sa
Website: https://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/PHYS/elsaid/index.htm
Affiliated Center(s): Interdisciplinary Research Center for Advanced Materials

Current Research Interests

Surface engineering using highly energetic heavy ions and slow highly charged ions
Tuning physical properties of various advanced materials
Ion-induced defects engineering
Radiation degradation

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Ayman Sherif El-Said received his Ph.D. from Heidelberg University, Germany in 2004 after successful completion of research work in the field of ion-solid interaction at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (Darmstadt- Germany) during 2000 to 2004. Before joining GSI, Dr. El-Said completed his master’s degree in applied nuclear physics from Mansoura University, Egypt in 1998. In 2005, he was awarded the Lise Meitner Fellowship from the Austrian science Fund (FWF). This fellowship enabled him to conduct research work at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria from 2005 to 2007. As a senior scientist, he worked in the same University from 2008 to 2009 performing experiments in the same research area, namely nanostructuring using ion beam technology. From 2009 to 2010, Dr. El-Said worked as experienced researcher at the Institute of Ion beam Physics and Material Research of Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Dresden-Germany) by obtaining the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers in 2009. He received the state incentive award in Physics from the Egyptian Academy of Science and Technology for the year 2010. Since May 2012 Dr. El-Said is a physics editor of the Arab Journal for Science and Engineering (Springer Verlag). Dr. Ayman El-Said also obtained the KFUPM Excellence in Research Award in 2018.

AWARDS & HONORS

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) scholarship for getting Ph.D. degree in Physics (GSI Accelerator Facility, Darmstadt), 1.4.2000-31.3.2004, Germany.
Lise Meitner postdoc fellowship at Vienna University of Technology, 1.10.2005-30.09.2007, Austria.
Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers, 1.9.2009-30.08.2010, Germany.
State Incentive award in Physics from National Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, June 2011, Egypt.
Excellence in Research Award, KFUPM, April 2018, Saudi Arabia.

KEY PUBLICATIONS

H.A.A. Abdelbagi, C.B. Mtshali, M.K. Hossain, C. Ronning, T.A.O. Jafer, M.Y.A. Ismail, Z.A.Y. Abdalla, J.B. Malherbe, A.S. El Said, T.T. Hlatshwayo, S.S. Ntshangase “Controlling the migration of implanted cesium in silicon carbide using zirconium nanolayer” Applied Surface Science, 713, 164332 (2025).
A.S. El-Said “Creation of color centers in MgF₂single crystals by swift heavy ions: Energy loss and fluence dependence” Radiation Physics and Chemistry 227, 112369 (2025).
A.S. El-Said “Fabrication of Triangular Pits in Barium Fluoride Single Crystals by Localized Electronic Excitations” Results in Physics 51, 106708 (2023).
A.S. El-Said, W. Moslem, R.E. Tolba, H. Bahlouli “Nanostructuring of Strontium Titanate by Highly Energetic Ions Induced Plasma” Physica Scripta 98, 115601 (2023.
W.M. Moslem, A.S. El-Said, R.E. Tolba, H. Bahlouli "Modifications of single walled carbon nanotubes by ion-induced plasma" Results in Physics 37, 105438 (2022).
Ayman S. El-Said, Saleem Rao, Shavkat Akhmadaliev, Stefan Facsko "Tuning Tailored Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Highly Energetic Heavy Ions" Physical Review Applied 13, 044073 (2020).
A.S. El-Said, R.A. Wilhelm, R. Heller, S. Facsko, "Creation of Surface Nanostructures in Lanthanum Fluoride Single Crystals by Irradiation with Slow Highly Charged Ions" Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 460, 137 (2019).
A.S. El-Said, R. A. Wilhelm, R. Heller, M. Sorokin, S. Facsko, and F. Aumayr, “Tuning the Fabrication of Nanostructures by Low-Energy Highly Charged Ions” Physical Review Letters 117, 126101 (2016).
A.S. El-Said, W.M. Moslem, M. Djebli "Surface Nanostructuring by Ion-Induced Localized Plasma Expansion in Zinc Oxide " Applied Physics Letters 104, 231609 (2014).
A.S. El-Said “Nanostructures created in SiO₂ surface: A comparison between the impingement by slow highly charged ions and by swift heavy ions“ Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 282, 63 (2012).
A.S. El-Said, R.A. Wilhelm, R. Heller, and S. Facsko, C. Lemell, G. Wachter, J. Burgduorfer, R. Ritter and F. Aumayr "Phase Diagram for Nanostructuring CaF₂ Surfaces by Slow Highly Charged Ions" Physical Review Letters 109, 117602 (2012).
A.S. El-Said, R. Heller, F. Aumayr, S. Facsko "Pyramidal pits created by single highly charged ions impinging upon the BaF₂ (111) surface" Physical Review B 82, 033403 (2010).
A.S. El-Said "Tracks of 30-MeV C₆₀ clusters in Yttrium Iron Garnet studied by Scanning force microscopy" Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 267, 953 (2009).
A.S. El-Said, R. Heller, W. Meissl, R. Ritter, S. Facsko, C. Lemell, B. Solleder, I. Gebeshuber, G. Betz, M. Toulemonde, W. Möller, J. Burgdörfer, F. Aumayr, "Creation of Nanohillocks on CaF₂ Surfaces by Single Slow Highly Charged Ions" Physical Review Letters, 100, 237601 (2008).
A.S. El-Said, R. Neumann, K. Schwartz, C. Trautmann "Swelling and creation of color centers in MgF2 single crystals irradiated with energetic heavy ions" Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 245, 250 (2006).
K. Schwartz, C. Trautmann, A.S. El-Said, R. Neumann, M. Toulemonde, W. Knolle "Color center creation in LiF under irradiation with swift heavy ions: dependence on energy loss and fluence" Physical Review B 70, 184104 (2004).
A.S. El-Said, M. Cranney, N. Ishikawa, A. Iwase, R. Neumann, K. Schwartz, M. Toulemonde, C. Trautmann, "Study of heavy-ion induced modifications in BaF₂ and LaF₃ single crystals" Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 218, 492 (2004).

Dr. Ayman S. El-Said Associate Professor 6/228 966-1-860-7561 elsaid@kfupm.edu.sa Website

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Dr. Fahhad Alharbi
Professor
Optics and Photonics

59-2082 966-1-860-2337 fahhad.alharbi@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Hocine Bahlouli
Professor
Condensed Matter

6/221 966-1-860-2097 bahlouli@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Khalil A. Ziq
Professor
Superconductivity

6/259F 966-1-860-3761 kaziq@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Khalil Harrabi
Professor
Mesoscopic physics and Superconductivity

6/151 966-1-860-2239 harrabi@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Zain Hassan Yamani
Professor
Condensed Matter

15/3102, 6/227 966-1-860-4363/4328 zhyamani@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Associate Professor

Dr. Abdelkrim Mekki
Associate Professor
Material Science

6/219 966-1-860-4292 akmekki@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Abdul-Aziz Al-Jalal
Associate Professor
Laser Physics and Spectroscopy

6/117 966-1-860-1017 aljalal@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Ashraf Mohamed Samir Farahat
Associate Professor
Physics/Space Physics

6-140 966-1-860-7290 ashraf.farahat@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Ayman S. El-Said
Associate Professor
Applied Nuclear Physics (Ion beam modifications)

6/228 966-1-860-7561 elsaid@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Khaled Gasmi
Associate Professor
Laser Spectroscopy and Laser Sensing

6/232 966-1-860-2275 kgasmi@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Muhammad Baseer Haider
Associate Professor
Surface and materials Science

6/143 966-1-860-2371 mhaider@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Nidal Khaled Dwaikat
Associate Professor
Nuclear and Radiation Physics

06/217 966-1-860-2872 ndwaikat@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Saeed Al-Marzoug
Associate Professor
Bose Einstein Condensate and nonlinear physics

6/220 966-1-860-7316 marzoug@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Saleem Rao
Associate Professor
Condensed Matter Physics

6/147 966-1-860-1675 saleemg@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Watheq Ahmed Al-Basheer
Associate Professor
Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics/Chemical Physics

6/231 966-1-860-2216 Watheq@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Serdar Elhatisari
Associate Professor

6/115 966-1-860-5868 Serdar.Elhatisari@kfupm.edu.sa
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Assistant Professor

Dr. Tariq Al-Abdullah
Assistant Professor

6/259E 860-2260 tariq.alabdullah@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Sabri Elatresh
Assistant Professor
Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Physics

6/139 966-1-860-2860 sabri.elatresh@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Raditya Weda Bomantara
Assistant Professor
Condensed Matter and Quantum Computing

6-145 966-1-860-1170 raditya.bomantara@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Michael Vogl
Assistant Professor
Condensed Matter

6/222 966-1-860-4056 michael.vogl@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Khan Alam
Assistant Professor
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics: Thin Films

6/121 966-1-860-3869 khan.alam@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Jihad Al- Sadah
Assistant Professor
Medical physics

6/230 966-1-860-4893 jhalsadah@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Faris Ahmed Al-matouq
Assistant Professor

6\259G 966-13-860-5606 faris@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Burhan Saifaddin
Assistant Professor

6/226 966-1-860-1340 burhan.saifaddin@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Adel Abbout
Assistant Professor

6/259-A 966-1-860-1426 adel.abbout@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Abdulwahab Abdulrahman Al Luhaibi
Assistant Professor

6/146 966-1-860-3752 aalluhaibi@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Abdulaziz Husain M. Al-Aswad
Assistant Professor
Dean, Academic Development

6/224 966-1-860-2637 abdu@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Abdallah M. Al-Zahrani
Assistant Professor
Gravitational Physics

6/229 966-1-860-3468 amz@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Lecturer

Mr. Muhammad Dastageer
Lecturer
Laser Molecular Spectroscopy

28/134 966-1-860-4574 makader@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Mogtaba B. Mekki
Lecturer
Self-organized of Nano-structures, Numerical Solution of PDE with Noise, Nano-Scale Magnetism

6/134 966-1-860-4697 mogtaba@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Mr. Khateeb-Ur-Rehman
Lecturer
Nuclear Physics

6/152 966-1-860-2798 khateeb@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Mr. Ayman Ghannam
Lecturer
Superconductivity

6/141 966-1-860-1597 ghannama@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Ahmed F. Salem
Lecturer
Superconductivity

6/122 966-1-860-1253 afsalem@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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