Chairman
Dr. Mohammad F. Al-Kuhaili
Chairman
Thin Films and Material Science
6/225
966-1-860-3747
kuhaili@kfupm.edu.sa
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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
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Chair Professor
Name: Zain H. Yamani
Title: Director of the KFUPM Interdisciplinary Research Center for Hydrogen Technologies and Carbon Management
Brief Research Interests: Development of ‘energy’ related materials, especially for applications like batteries, supercapacitors, chemical sensors and gas separation membranes.
Research Areas: Condensed Matter Physics
Office: 15-3100 (and 6/227)
Tel: 966-13-860-4363
Email: zhyamani@kfupm.edu.sa
Website: Zain Yamani Home-Page (kfupm.edu.sa)
Affiliated Center(s): Interdisciplinary Research Center for Hydrogen Technologies and Carbon Management
Research Interests: The Yamani Group works on functionalizing materials for improved qualities in energy applications. Electrodes are developed for low over-potential, stable, cheap water splitting. Other applications include improving redox flow battery materials as well as selective high permeability H2 separation membranes.
Biographical Sketch
A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D., 1999), professor Zain Yamani is currently the Director of the KFUPM Interdisciplinary Research Center for Hydrogen Technologies and Carbon Management. Professor Yamani had been appointed as Director of the KFUPM Academic Improvement Program in 2005. In 2007, he was appointed as the founding Director of the Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology. In 2021, professor Yamani was appointed as the first Director of KFUPM’s Interdisciplinary Research Center for Hydrogen and Energy Storage. Professor Yamani enjoys “popularizing” science and had introduced a course into the KFUPM curriculum about “The Physics of How Things Work”. Professor Yamani has over two hundred and thirty publications in refereed international scientific journals, in addition to forty patents issued from the USPTO, with others in the pipeline.
AWARDS & HONORS
Dr. Yamani received a number of awards amongst which was The King Abdul-Aziz Medal of the First Type for his scientific accomplishment, in 2006, and The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Award for Honoring the Inventors and Gifted Ones, in 2017.
KEY PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Zain Hassan Yamani Professor 15/3102, 6/227 966-1-860-4363/4328 zhyamani@kfupm.edu.sa Website
Professor
Dr. Fahhad Alharbi
Professor
Optics and Photonics
59-2082
966-1-860-2337
fahhad.alharbi@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Hocine Bahlouli
Professor
Condensed Matter
6/221
966-1-860-2097
bahlouli@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Khalil A. Ziq
Professor
Superconductivity
6/259F
966-1-860-3761
kaziq@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Khalil Harrabi
Professor
Mesoscopic physics and Superconductivity
6/151
966-1-860-2239
harrabi@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Zain Hassan Yamani
Professor
Condensed Matter
15/3102, 6/227
966-1-860-4363/4328
zhyamani@kfupm.edu.sa
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Associate Professor
Dr. Abdelkrim Mekki
Associate Professor
Material Science
6/219
966-1-860-4292
akmekki@kfupm.edu.sa
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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
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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
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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
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Dr. Khaled Gasmi
Associate Professor
Laser Spectroscopy and Laser Sensing
6/232
966-1-860-2275
kgasmi@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Muhammad Baseer Haider
Associate Professor
Surface and materials Science
6/143
966-1-860-2371
mhaider@kfupm.edu.sa
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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
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Dr. Saleem Rao
Associate Professor
Condensed Matter Physics
6/147
966-1-860-1675
saleemg@kfupm.edu.sa
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dr. Jihad Al- Sadah
Assistant Professor
Medical physics
6/230
966-1-860-4893
jhalsadah@kfupm.edu.sa
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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
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Dr. Adel Abbout
Assistant Professor
6/259-A
966-1-860-1426
adel.abbout@kfupm.edu.sa
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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
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Lecturer
Mr. Muhammad Dastageer
Lecturer
Laser Molecular Spectroscopy
28/134
966-1-860-4574
makader@kfupm.edu.sa
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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
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Mr. Khateeb-Ur-Rehman
Lecturer
Nuclear Physics
6/152
966-1-860-2798
khateeb@kfupm.edu.sa
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Mr. Ayman Ghannam
Lecturer
Superconductivity
6/141
966-1-860-1597
ghannama@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Ahmed F. Salem
Lecturer
Superconductivity
6/122
966-1-860-1253
afsalem@kfupm.edu.sa
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