Faculty
Our faculty members graduated from reputed universities and are some of the top chemists in their fields while also being dedicated teachers and mentors. Their expertise covers a wide range of sub-disciplines and specialties, and they are regularly producing internationally-recognized research.
Dr. Ali Shaikh Asrof
Distinguished Professor
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We design specialty monomers for polymerization to stimuli-responsive macromolecules. The polymers are used to construct Aqueous-Two-Phase systems for potential use in bioseparation.
Dr. Khalid Alhooshani
Professor
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Alhooshani's group utilized their understanding of atomic and molecular interactions to design and develop advanced porous materials for industrial catalytic processes and environmental applications.
Dr. Mohammad Nahid Siddiqui
Professor // CHEM101 Coordinator
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Focusing on developing polymer composites using new fillers, chemical recycling of waste plastics into useful products, developing new nanoporous adsorbents for water, gas, and fuel purification.
Dr. Nisar Ullah
Professor
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Our research interests are broadly in the area of synthetic organic chemistry, with a particular focus on the synthesis of bioactive natural products and novel molecular architectures
Dr. Mohammed Morsy
Professor
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Morsy research lab activity focuses on the mechanistic chemistry of materials and nanomaterials and free radicals in other systems by using Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy mainly.
Dr. Tawfik Saleh
Professor
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Tawfik A. Saleh research work focus on the reaction processing, the chemical characterization, methodologies and nanomaterials properties.
Dr. Jafar Mazumder
Professor
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Smart organic and/or polymeric materials for applications in corrosion, water treatment, membrane-based separations, biomedical, and microencapsulation.
Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Saadi
Professor
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Molecular Spectroscopy; Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS); Computational Chemistry
Dr. Bassam El-Ali
Professor // Graduate Coordinator
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Research in Catalysis Laboratory is focused on the design and synthesis of organometallic ligands and catalysts for the catalytic applications in petrochemistry and organic synthesis
Dr. Abdul Malik Peedikakkal
Associate Professor
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Abdul Malik focused on fundamental and applied features of Crystal Engineering. Research focused Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) that address global challenges in energy and environmental concerns.
Dr. Ahmed Al-Harbi
Assistant Professor
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Development of novel Organic ligands for various applications including catalysis
Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Betar
Associate Professor
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Electrochemistry of conducting polymers, water oxidation, and supercapacitors
Dr. Basheer Chanbasha
Professor
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Research in the Basheer Group focuses on synthesizing various functional nanomaterials and evaluating their potential applications in energy, petrochemical and environment applications.
Dr. Hassan Al-Muallem
Associate Professor
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Organic synthesis, polymer synthesis and characterization, and synthesis of organic compounds and polymers for use as corrosion inhibitors and antiscalants.
Dr. Jameel Al-Thagfi
Assistant Professor, Chairman, Chemistry Department
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The research is focused on synthesis, characterization, and applications of homogenous catalysis and on applications of computational chemistry
Dr. Asem Alenaizan
Assistant Professor
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Computational chemistry; quantum chemistry; molecular dynamics; nucleic acid structure; self-assembly; noncovalent interactions.
Dr. Majad Khan
Assistant Professor
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I am passionate about teaching Chemistry and carrying out research in the broad areas of Polymer Chemistry and Nanomaterials for various industrial (Oil & Gas Recovery) and Biomedical applications.
Dr. Muhammad Tahir
Associate Professor
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Tahir's group is focused on engineered multifunctional nanomaterials (inorganic & polymeric) and their applications in biofouling, corrosion and photo/-electrochemical catalysis.
Dr. Musa Musa
Professor
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Research in the Musa Lab focuses on the use of redox enzymes in synthesis of enantiopure alcohols using either asymmetric reduction or deracemization approaches.
Dr. Othman Al-Hamouz
Associate Professor
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The main research theme of Othman group comprises the design and synthesis of polymers and to understand how the structure and functionality design can be applied in different fields of the industry.
Dr. Saheed Ganiyu
Associate Professor
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Ganiyu's Lab research activities focus on the novel synthesis of advanced materials for industrial heterogeneous catalysis, environmental remediation and analytical problems.
Dr. Tarek Kandial
Associate Professor
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Research in the Kandiel group is focused on developing photo(electro)catalytic materials for energy and environmental applications and studying the mechanisms and dynamics of photoinduced processes using spectroscopic techniques.
Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Arfaj
Professor
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