Khalifa University 鈥� Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Faculty Highlights

Khalifa University Researchers Win Top International Award at Prestigious Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics CFD Competition in US

Student Highlights

L鈥橭r茅al-UNESCO For Women in Science Middle East Regional Young Talents Program Honors Five Trailblazing Arab Female Scientists from the GCC

General Announcements

3rd CeCaS International Workshop: Catalysis and Separation Towards Sustainability and Net Zero Carbon Emissions (ZeroC)

Research Highlights

3D Printing Brings Heat and UV Detection Together聽

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Academic Faculty

Dr. saeed alameri Associate Professor | Campus Director | Center Director, Emirates Nuclear Technology Center saeed.alameri@ku.ac.ae

Dr. adnan ozden Assistant Professor adnan.ozden@ku.ac.ae

Prof. wael zaki Professor | Acting Chair, Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering wael.zaki@ku.ac.ae

Prof. kyriaki polychronopoulou Professor | Center Director, Center for Catalysis and Separation Kyriaki.polychrono@ku.ac.ae

Prof. tiejun zhang Professor | Director, International Relations tiejun.zhang@ku.ac.ae

Prof. abdallah berrouk Professor | Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies abdallah.berrouk@ku.ac.ae

Prof. isam janajreh Professor isam.janajreh@ku.ac.ae

Prof. samuel mao Professor of Practice | Center Director, ASPIRE Virtual Research Institute for Sustainable Energy samuel.mao@ku.ac.ae

Dr. irfan hussain Associate Professor irfan.hussain@ku.ac.ae

Prof. seneviratne seneviratne Professor lakmal.seneviratne@ku.ac.ae

Prof. haider butt Professor haider.butt@ku.ac.ae

Prof. rashid abu al rub Professor rashid.abualrub@ku.ac.ae

Prof. eiyad abu-nada Professor eiyad.abunada@ku.ac.ae

Prof. matteo chiesa Professor matteo.chiesa@ku.ac.ae

Dr. yacine addad Professor | Deputy Director yacine.addad@ku.ac.ae

Prof. dimitrios gkousis Professor dimitris.goussis@ku.ac.ae

Prof. lianxi zheng Professor lianxi.zheng@ku.ac.ae

Prof. valerie eveloy Professor valerie.eveloy@ku.ac.ae

Dr. mohamed alshehhi Associate Professor | Assistant Provost, Enrollment And Graduate Studies mohamed.alshehhi@ku.ac.ae

Dr. daniel choi Associate Professor daniel.choi@ku.ac.ae

Dr. ahmed alkaabi Assistant Professor ahmed.alkaabi@ku.ac.ae

Dr. federico renda Associate Professor federico.renda@ku.ac.ae

Prof. francois foulon Professor francois.foulon@ku.ac.ae

Dr. hamid abderrahmane Associate Professor hamid.abderrahmane@ku.ac.ae

Prof. anas alazzam Professor anas.alazzam@ku.ac.ae

Dr. mohamed ali Associate Professor mohamed.ali@ku.ac.ae

Dr. imad barsoum Associate Professor imad.barsoum@ku.ac.ae

Dr. marwan el rich Associate Professor marwan.elrich@ku.ac.ae

Dr. afshin goharzadeh Associate Professor afshin.goharzadeh@ku.ac.ae

Dr. md fazlulkarim Associate Professor didarul.islam@ku.ac.ae

Dr. hamad karki Associate Professor hamad.karki@ku.ac.ae

Dr. andreas schiffer Associate Professor andreas.schiffer@ku.ac.ae

Dr. yap fatt Associate Professor yap.fatt@ku.ac.ae

Prof. bashar el khasawneh Professor of Practice bashar.khasawneh@ku.ac.ae

Dr. imran afgan Associate Professor imran.afgan@ku.ac.ae

Dr. nouha alcheikh ep allouch Assistant Professor nouha.alcheikh@ku.ac.ae

Dr. sivaprakash sengodan Assistant Professor sivaprakash.sengodan@ku.ac.ae

Staff

Syed M. Jaffar Senior Lab Engineer syed.jaffar@ku.ac.ae

Syed M. Tariq Senior Lab Engineer syed.tariq@ku.ac.ae

Seneerappa Narasimhulu Shrinivas Bojanampati Lab Engineer seneerappa.bojanampati@ku.ac.ae

Ramil Grefaldia Sempio Assistant Lab Engineer ramil.sempio@ku.ac.ae

Aisha Ali Mohamed Al Blooshi Administrative Assistant aisha.alblooshi@ku.ac.ae

Ali H. Az-Zu’bi Lab Instructor ali.azzubi@ku.ac.ae

Mohamed Yousuff Abdul Khadir Lab Technician mohamed.abdulkhadir@ku.ac.ae

Researchers

Research Scientists

Dr. anup teejo mathew Research Scientist anup.mathew@ku.ac.ae

Dr. santhoshkumar palanisamy Research Scientist santhoshkumar.palanisamy@ku.ac.ae

Dr. jan mihalik Research Scientist jan.mihalik@ku.ac.ae

Dr. karuppasamy karuppasamy Research Scientist karuppasamy.karuppasamy@ku.ac.ae

Dr. balamurugan raj Research Scientist balamurugan.raj@ku.ac.ae

Dr. nilesh chodankar Research Scientist nilesh.chodankar@ku.ac.ae

Mr. ahmed asar Research Scientist ahmed.asar@ku.ac.ae

Dr. deepak ramachandran Research Scientist deepak.ramachandran@ku.ac.ae

Dr. shoaib anwer Senior Research Scientist shoaib.anwer@ku.ac.ae

Dr. aikifa raza Research Scientist aikifa.raza@ku.ac.ae

Dr. abhishek lokhande Research Scientist abhishek.lokhande@ku.ac.ae

Dr. aasif dabbawala Research Scientist aasif.dabbawala@ku.ac.ae

Dr. Alejandro Rios Galvan Director, Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium; Chief Research Scientist alejandro.riosgalvan@ku.ac.ae

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Dr. abdur patrum Post Doctoral Fellow abdur.patrum@ku.ac.ae

Dr. rajan prasad Post Doctoral Fellow rajan.prasad@ku.ac.ae

Dr. samah albdour Post Doctoral Fellow samah.albdour@ku.ac.ae

Dr. karthik santhakumar Post Doctoral Fellow karthik.santhakumar@ku.ac.ae

Dr. mohamed abdelwahab Post Doctoral Fellow mohamed.abdelwahab@ku.ac.ae

Dr. zubair ahmad Post Doctoral Fellow zubair.ahmad@ku.ac.ae

Mr. mustofa basri Post Doctoral Fellow mustofa.basri@ku.ac.ae

Dr. rajmeet singh bhourji Post Doctoral Fellow rajmeet.bhourji@ku.ac.ae

Dr. oguzhan kazaz Post Doctoral Fellow oguzhan.kazaz@ku.ac.ae

Dr. muhammad umar azam Post Doctoral Fellow muhammad.azam@ku.ac.ae

Dr. chukwugozie ejeh Post Doctoral Fellow chukwugozie.ejeh@ku.ac.ae

Dr. Remilekun Shittu Postdoctoral fellow remilekun.shittu@ku.ac.ae

Dr. lakshya mathur Post Doctoral Fellow lakshya.mathur@ku.ac.ae

Saverio Iacoponi Postdoctoral Fellow saverio.iacoponi@ku.ac.ae

Dr. vignesh sekar Post Doctoral Fellow vignesh.sekar@ku.ac.ae

Dr. Praveen Kumar Muthusamy Post Doctoral Fellow praveen.muthusamy@ku.ac.ae

Dr. mostafa ismael Post Doctoral Fellow mostafa.ismael@ku.ac.ae

Dr. ali mehboob Post Doctoral Fellow ali.mehboob@ku.ac.ae

Dr. anjali jha Post Doctoral Fellow anjali.jha@ku.ac.ae

Dr. suhail siddique Post Doctoral Fellow suhail.siddique@ku.ac.ae

rana azzam Post Doctoral Fellow rana.azzam@ku.ac.ae

Mr. andrea infanti Post Doctoral Fellow andrea.infanti@ku.ac.ae

aseel hussien Post Doctoral Fellow aseel.ghussien@ku.ac.ae

Muhayyuddin Ahmed Post Doctoral Fellow muhayyuddin.ahmed@ku.ac.ae

Waseem Akram Post Doctoral Fellow waseem.akram@ku.ac.ae

Dr. amarsingh kanagaraj Post Doctoral Fellow amarsingh.kanagaraj@ku.ac.ae

Dr. lochan kshetrimayum Post Doctoral Fellow lochan.kshetrimayum@ku.ac.ae

khurrum chaudri Post Doctoral Fellow khurrum.chaudri@ku.ac.ae

Dr. kabbir ali Post Doctoral Fellow kabbir.ali@ku.ac.ae

Dr. mubashir hassan Post Doctoral Fellow mubashir.hassan@ku.ac.ae

Lyes Saad Saoud Post Doctoral Fellow lyes.saoud@ku.ac.ae

Dr. muhammad owais Post Doctoral Fellow muhammad.owais@ku.ac.ae

asim khan Post Doctoral Fellow asim.khan@ku.ac.ae

Dr. mobeen rehman Post Doctoral Fellow mobeen.rehman@ku.ac.ae

Dr. Mohamed Lahdour Postdoctoral fellow

alok negi Post Doctoral Fellow alok.negi@ku.ac.ae

Dr. qiangshun guan Post Doctoral Fellow qiangshun.guan@ku.ac.ae

Dr. saleem nasir Post Doctoral Fellow saleem.nasir@ku.ac.ae

Dr. nareg baghous Post Doctoral Fellow nareg.baghous@ku.ac.ae

bilal masood pirzada Post Doctoral Fellow bilal.pirzada@ku.ac.ae

Dr. Houda Chelaifa Postdoctoral Fellow houda.chelaifa@ku.ac.ae

Dr. murad ali Post Doctoral Fellow murad.nali@ku.ac.ae

Dr. idowu adeyemi Post Doctoral Fellow idowu.adeyemi@ku.ac.ae

Dr. ilyas khurshid Post Doctoral Fellow ilyas.khurshid@ku.ac.ae

Dr. prerna chaturvedi Post Doctoral Fellow prerna.chaturvedi@ku.ac.ae

Research Associates

Mr. mashood mohsan Research Associate mashood.mohsan@ku.ac.ae

Ms. basma hasanen Research Associate basma.hasanen@ku.ac.ae

Mr. ahsan bakht Research Associate ahsan.bakht@ku.ac.ae

Research Engineers

Kevin Halique Research Engineer

Dr. hafiz malik naqash afzal Lab Engineer hafiz.afzal@ku.ac.ae

Vishnubhadran Ramabhadran Research Engineer vishnu.bhadran@ku.ac.ae

Jacob George Lab Engineer jacob.ageorge@ku.ac.ae

Research Assistants

naod mogos Research Assistant naod.mogos@ku.ac.ae

Arnold Arellano Research Assistant arnold.arellano@ku.ac.ae

Graduate Students

PhD

Khadije El Kadi PhD in Engineering

Pooja Srinivas G Srinivasulu Gurram PhD in Engineering

Lamiaa Sami Elsherbiny PhD in Engineering

Mariam Nagi Amer PhD in Engineering

Hafiz Muhammad Abubaker PhD in Engineering

Mohammed Ayazuddin PhD in Engineering

Swati Pramod Kumar Singh Singh PhD in Engineering

Kamran Mukhtar Ahmed Mahboob PhD in Engineering

Abdulla Taoufik Alhourani PhD in Engineering

Mariam Siddiq Mansouri PhD in Engineering

Sherif Hussien Awad PhD in Engineering

Fuhai Wu PhD in Engineering

Ahmad Ali Chehade PhD in Engineering

Bilal Bukhari Bukhari PhD in Engineering

Ahmad Thabet Shalabi PhD in Engineering

Abdelsalam Tareq Alkhalaileh PhD in Engineering

Mohamad Nael Alsheikh PhD in Engineering

Sajeer Mubasher Islam Ahmad PhD in Engineering

Sameer Muhammad Rashid Khan Khan PhD in Engineering

Saif Dhafer Alameri PhD in Engineering

Abdalla Saber Abdalla Abdelhamid PhD in Engineering

Mohammad Khaled Mohammad Islayem PhD in Engineering

Rami N. A. Alagha PhD in Engineering

Said Mohamad El Turk PhD in Engineering

Omar Mohmmd Eid Amin Nasro PhD in Engineering

Anas Esmail Abdo Alaghbari PhD in Engineering

Mohamad Mazen Farhat PhD in Engineering

Mariam Mohamed Badawi PhD in Engineering

Amaal Yahia Romih PhD in Engineering

Rasha Wadeea Mohd PhD in Engineering

Linda Taha Ismail PhD in Engineering

Hanin Amara PhD in Engineering

Atif Sultan PhD in Engineering

Dawei Zhang PhD in Engineering

Muhammad Mujtaba Syed PhD in Engineering

Timileyin Aworinde Aworinde PhD in Engineering

Muhammad Salman PhD in Engineering

Essa Subuktagin Ansari PhD in Engineering

Wenkai Yang PhD in Engineering

Haider Ali Allauddin Khan Khan PhD in Engineering

Mouza Ali Alzaabi PhD in Engineering

Mohamed Moustafa Elhanbaly PhD in Engineering

Mubinul Islam PhD in Engineering

Khaled Mohamed Badawy PhD in Engineering

Ahmed Hassan Hafez PhD in Engineering

Heba Iyad Khafajah PhD in Engineering

Abdullah Aziz PhD in Engineering

Ahmed Hamdy Abdelgawad PhD in Engineering

Mohammed Shaikh Abdul Qader Bin Afif PhD in Engineering

Muhammad Mustafa Generous PhD in Engineering

Khaled Ahmed Abdelghafar PhD in Engineering

Hammad Masood PhD in Engineering

Sameer Osman PhD in Engineering

Surya Prakash Gajagouni PhD in Engineering

Marwan Ahmed Mohamed PhD in Engineering

Muhammed Shebeeb Kunhi Mohamed Cherum Kuzhi PhD in Engineering

Adam Otabil PhD in Engineering

Alabas Sadeq Hasan PhD in Engineering

Leo Jose Puthussery Louis Puthussery PhD in Engineering

Abdallah Kamal Hamouda PhD in Engineering

Muhammad Muhammad Ishrat Faizan Thesis Title: Development and Performance evaluation of a Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage (LHTES) unit coupled with a Nuclear Power Plant

Major: PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Supervisors: Imran Afgan and Ahmed Al Kaabi)

Abdulrahman Outhman Kharbatli PhD in Engineering

Dileep Chekkaramkodi PhD in Engineering

Mohamad Habib Yassine PhD in Engineering

Yasser Jamal Eddin Aldaghestani PhD in Engineering

Muhammad Muhammad Shafi Reshaeel PhD in Engineering

Ahmad Hasan S. Abdalla PhD in Engineering

Haokun Zhang PhD in Engineering

Mohamed Abdelmageed Abdelhameed PhD in Engineering

Moath Nayef Zaareer PhD in Engineering

Kamal Krishnam Raju Sirivuri PhD in Engineering

Muntaser Abdelrahman Almansoori PhD in Engineering

Ali Abdelbagi Gadelmoula PhD in Engineering

Ahmed Salih Abuelyamen Thesis Title: Numerical Modelling of Fluid Structure Interaction for Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics

Major: 聽PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Supervisors: Imran Afgan, Ahmed Al Kaabi and Saeed Alameri)

Mohamed Zakaria Khatab PhD in Engineering

Ismail Mahmood Salim PhD in Engineering

Abubaker Sayed Omer PhD in Engineering

Muhammed Hisham PhD in Engineering

Asem Alemam PhD in Engineering

Sherif Ahmed Yehya PhD in Engineering

Ameer Zulfiqar Ali Hamza PhD in Engineering

Fares Hassan Al Awwa PhD in Engineering

Dezhuang Ji PhD in Engineering

Abdul Aziz Vaqar Ahmed Hulleck PhD in Engineering

Abdulaziz Youssef Alkayas PhD in Engineering

Rami Imad Homsi PhD in Engineering