Ph.D. Students

Ahmed Alamer

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Chemical Process Technology, Carbon Neutrality, Circular Carbon, Plastics Pyrolysis, CO2 Mitigation, Crude to Chemicals, energy & sustainability

Aidana Gimnkhan

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Organic Chemistry Catalysis, Organic Synthesis

Akash Singh

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous, Electrocatalysis, photocatalysis .

Ali Alkadhem

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ​Catalyst Modeling, Fluid Computational Dynamics

Alice Nanni

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Transition metal catalysis, photocacalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, Electrocatalysis

Amir I. Gizatullin

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Organic chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Bioinorganic chemistry, catalysis, structure

Angel Sousa

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Carbon materials, MOFs, photo-thermal catalysis, solar fuels

Bashir Hasanov

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Perovskite, Nanomaterials

Bingyao Shao

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Perovskites, photovoltaic materials

Bogdan Orlioglo

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Solid-state, materials, catalysis, Lasers, Crystallography, Diffraction, Python 3

Claudia Filosa

PhD Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Hydrocarbons, MTH, MTO, Zeolites

Cristina Queiros da Silva

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Material Science, Nanotechnology, characterization, NH3-SCR of NOx, Chemical Synthesis

Daria Poloneeva

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Metal-organic framework, Materials Science, gas separation, Photophysics

Dina Alsaadi

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: CO2 Conversion

Ekaterina Toshcheva

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: catalysis, DFT, Materials modeling, simulation

Faisal F. Alahmadi

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: reaction engineering, catalysis, simulation

Fatimah Aldakheel

​Ph.D. Student

Feng Xie

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Metal-organic framework, Porous material, separation, catalysis, Electron Microscopy

Genrikh Shterk

​Ph. D. Student

Research Interests: Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, surface science, catalysis, Heterogeneous catalysis, Material Characterization, Instrumentals, XPS, STM, TEM/STEM, in and ex-situ, operando

Gontzal Lezcano

​Ph.D. Student

Hange Zhang

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: zeolite, Catalytic Hydrogenation, Gas Purification

Haodi Ran

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Perovskite, solar, cells

Il Son Khan

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: catalysis, MOFs

Isa Al Aslani

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ​Fluid catalytic Cracking, Crude Oil, Hydrodynamics, reactor design, Equations of state

Jorge Samuel Leon Mahdaleno

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: cheminformatics, Bioinformatics, Molecular Modelling

Jurjen O. Cazemier

​PhD Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, renewable chemicals

Kai Qi

Ph.D. student

Research Interests: 2D material, epitaxy growth, CVD, lithium-io battery

Kamila Almagambetova

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Organic chemistry

Khulud Almasabi

​Ph.D. Student

Kiruthika Jayaseelan

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Methanol to Aromatics, Catalysis, Reaction Engineering

Kseniia Kosolapova

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Optoelectronics, Perovskites, Optics, photonics

Kseniia Vorotilo

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Optoelectronics, Quantum dots, Nanomaterials, SHS, Microscopy

Layal F. Yaacoub

​PhD Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, SOMC, pincer complexes, Formic acid dehydrogenation

Lujain Alrais

​Ph.D. Student

Maksim Zakharzhevskii

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: metal-organic frameworks, Crystal structure, photocatalysis .

Marcell Toth

Ph.D. Student

Marina Chernova

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Selective hydrogenation

Miao Hu

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: photocatalyst

Mohamad Abou Daher

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Chemical Kinetics , Clean Fuels

Mohammad Misbahur Rahman

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: catalysis, Small molecule activation

Mohammed Albuali

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: CO2 utilization, CO2 Conversion, catalysis

Mohammed Alotaibi

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Perovskites, solar cells, Nanomaterial

Moyu Yi

MS/Ph.D. student

Research Interests: catalysis

Nasser Alobaid

Ph.D. Student

Natalia Realpe

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: reactor design, process optimization, CFD, Transport Phenomena, Bio and Waste Refinery

Naydu Paola Zambrano Urrutia

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Crude to Chemicals, Waste upgrading, Analytical Chemistry

Nibras Hijazi

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: reaction engineering, reactor design, Heterogeneous catalysis

Noor A. Merdad

​Ph.D. Student

Nursaya Zhumabay

Ph.D. Student

Omar Abed

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, Perovskites, CO2 utilization, High throughput testing

Orkhan Sayidov

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: CO2 utilization, Reactor engineering, reactor design, biofuels, Bio-process modelling and simulation, Separation processes, heterogenous catalysis, Catalyst design

Polina Lavrik

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, kinetics, spectroscopy, TEM

Polina Tolstova

Ph.D. Student

Prashant Shinde

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Organic Synthesis, Electro-organic Synthesis, Heterogeneous catalyst, Green Chemistry

Razan Mal

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Homogenous Catalysis, pincer complexes, manganese

Renqian Zhou

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: solar cell, Perovskite

Saidkhodzha Nematulloev

Ph.D. student

Research Interests: Copper Nanocluster, Crystallization, Photophysics, catalysis

Salman Alsharif

Ph.D. Student

Samiya Khaliq

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Perovskites, semiconductor, VOSviewer, quantum emitters

Serik Zhumagazy

Ph.D. Student

Shahad Sulaimani

​Ph.D. Student

Shatha bin Dawood

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: catalysis, pincer complexes

Talal Aldugman

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: reaction engineering, Reaction kinetics, Reactor Modelling, CFD

Tiziana Ricciardelli

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Machine learning

Vinicius Luis dos Santos

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: reactor design, Catalyst, 3D Printing, adsorption, Parametric design

Wejdan Anbari

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Photochemistry, sustainable development, theoretical DFT simulation

Xinhuilan Wang

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysts, Porous material, MOFs, photothermal catalysis

Xueqin Bai

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis

Yan Wang

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Nanoparticles, Catalyst design, Porous materials, Carbon based materials

Yongyi Hu

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ​DFT (density functional theory)

Yuanfu Ren

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Single-atom and nanocluster catalysts, Nanomaterials, Electrocatalysis

Yuli Peng

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Biocatalysis, Extremophiles, extremozymes, Biotechnology

Yunzhi Wang

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Catalyst

Yuvraj Vaishnav

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Ammonia synthesis, CO2 Hydrogenation