Frontiers in Materials Science and Engineering
(FMSE)
February 13-15, 2024
American University of Sharjah-UAE

Keynote Speakers

Professor Wolfgang Kautek

Professor Wolfgang Kautek holds academic degrees from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, and from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, and served from 1976 to 1987 as a research scientist at the University of Kentucky, USA, at the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society, Berlin, at the IBM San Jose Research Laboratory, California, and the Siemens Research Center, Erlangen, Germany. In 1988 he became head of the Laboratory for Thin Film Technology of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, and 2003 Adjunct Professor at the Free University Berlin. 2004 he was appointed to the University of Vienna, Austria, as full-professor for physical chemistry. He served as Russell Severance Springer Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley, in 2017. Wolfgang Kautek conducts research in nanotechnology and laser processing of interfaces, also in the area of cultural heritage science. He authored more than 230 scientific publications and 4 patents

Professor Husam Alshareef

Prof. Husam Alshareef obtained his PhD degrees from North Carolina State University, USA, followed by 2 years as postdoc at Sandia National Laboratories, USA. He then embarked on a 10-year career in the semiconductor industry, holding positions at Micron Technology and Texas Instruments where he deployed several process technologies in volume production. In 2009 he joined King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) as Founding Professor, where he initiated an active research group focusing on developing nanomaterials for energy and electronic applications. The author of nearly 600 articles and 80 issued patents, he has been a Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science (Web of Science/Clarivate) for several years. He has won the UNDP Undergraduate Fellowship, North Carolina State University Dean’s Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education Electronic Materials Fellowship, Sandia National Laboratory post-doctoral Fellowship, the SEMATECH Corporate Excellence Award (2006), two DOW Sustainability Awards (2011) and (2014), the AH Shoman Award for Excellence in Energy Research (2016), the KAUST Distinguished Teaching Award (2018), and the Kuwiat Prize in Clean and Sustainable Technologies (2018). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK Institute of Physics (InstP), and the US National Academic of Inventors (NAI), and IEEE Distinguished Speaker in Nanotechnology. He was Chair of the 2014 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting in Boston, USA, and has served on various MRS committees. He was Chair of the

Materials Science & Engineering program at KAUST from January 2013 till January 2016.

Professor Rashid K. Abu Al-Rub

Professor Abu Al-Rub is currently the Director of ADAM (Advanced Digital & Additive Manufacturing) Center and Professor of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering at Khalifa University. ADAM is the first 3D printing center in Middle East. He was the Chair of Aerospace Engineering Department at Khalifa University, and Department Head of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at Masdar Institute. He has been a Professor at Texas A&M University and Adjunct Professor at Air Force Institute of Technology of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Professor Abu Al-Rub primary research field of interest is on the development of macro/micro/nano-mechanics-based constitutive models and computational tools that can be used effectively in guiding the design of advanced materials. He is particularly active in employing digital design, additive manufacturing, and 3D printing for creating multifunctional architected materials and composites for various engineering applications and industries. He has published one book, 6 patents in additive manufacturing, and over 300 publications. He has served as the principle/co-principal investigator of more than 30 projects; he is responsible for more than $30Million. He has been among the Scholar Google 100 Most Cited Authors in Civil Engineering. He received the Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnston Jr. Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. He received ADNOC Oil & Gas Year's 2016 Partnership of The Year Award. He has twice been recognized by The Texas A&M University System with its Student-Led Teaching Excellence Award, in 2009 and 2011, and in 2010 he received the Truman R. Jones Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award and the Tenneco Oil Exploration & Production Award for Meritorious Teaching of Engineering Award from Texas A&M University. He recently received the 2022 Abdel Hameed Shoman Foundation Arab Researchers Award.

Professor Samson A. Jenekhe

Professor Samson A. Jenekhe holds the Frank and Julie Jungers Endowed Chair in Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington. He is the author of over 320 research articles in journals (h-index = 113) with contributions in the chemistry, physics, and engineering applications of organic/polymer semiconductors, including materials synthesis, charge transport, photophysics, organic light-emitting diodes, organic photovoltaic devices, organic electronics, and polymer science. He received the 2021 Polymer Physics Prize from the American Physical Society. Jenekhe is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.

Professor Munir H. Nayfeh

Munir his BSc/MSc from AUB and PhD from Stanford University. He was a postdoc at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a lecturer at Yale University, and a consultant at the Argonne National Laboratory, and is currently a professor at University of Illinois. He co-authored Electricity and Magnetism (also translated into Farsi), co-edited three books on lasers, and is the author of the book “Fundamentals and Applications of Nano Silicon in Plasmonics and Fullerenes” and co-authored the recently issued book “Integrated Silicon-Metal Systems at the nanoscale”. He presents science-fiction, using the trademark “Dr. Nano,” to simplify nanotechnology for children.

Dr. Nayfeh has developed breakthrough imprints by developing writing with single atoms. He has made silicon (the dullest material and backbone of the electronic industry) glow by dispersing it into ultra-bright nanoparticles. This enables advanced low-cost devices for use in poor and remote areas, with diverse applications from solar energy and lighting to early detection/treatment of acute disease.

Dr. Nayfeh holds the largest number of patents in nano silicon worldwide (23 US). He founded three companies – NanoSi Advanced Technologies, Nano Silicon Solar, and Parasat-Nanosi (Kazakhstan) – and is an IAS fellow and has been president of the Network of Arab Scientists and Technologists Abroad, with the mission to accelerate strategies and technology development in Arab and OIC countries. He received the Beckman, AT&T, Industrial 100, and Energy 100 Awards.

Professor Marwan Khraisheh

Prof Marwan Kamal Khraisheh is the Chair and Professor of the Mechanical Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ). He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University. His research focuses on integrating mechanics and materials to develop novel concepts and technologies in smart and sustainable manufacturing. Prior to joining TAMUQ, he was leading a number of portfolios at Qatar Foundation’s Hamad Bin Khalifah University (HBKU) spanning research, innovation, and digital learning. He also led QF’s Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) with a research staff of more than 150 to address energy, water, and environment grand challenges. Dr. Khraisheh was the Founding Dean of Masdar Institute (in partnership with MIT) in Abu Dhabi where he led the development of eight MS and PhD degree programs focused on sustainable energy and advanced technology and recruited more than 70 faculty members. Prior to joining Masdar Institute in 2008, Dr. Khraisheh was the Secat – Morris Endowed Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kentucky in the US. Dr. Khraisheh is a recipient of the US NSF CAREER Award, the Eugene Merchant Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the SME, the Outstanding Research Paper Award from the North American Manufacturing Research Institute (NAMRI), and the Henry Mason Lutes Award for Excellence in Engineering Education. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Professor Yinmin Wang

Yinmin (Morris) Wang is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He joined UCLA as a full professor in 2020 after spending 17 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he was the inaugural recipient of Harold Graboske Fellowship. His group research interest covers the structure-property relationship of additively manufactured metals, mechanics of nanostructured materials, and lithium-ion batteries. Prof. Wang is a Fellow of American Physical Society and a winner of several noticeable awards, including Nano50 Innovator Award and Frost & Sullivan Emerging Technology of the Year Award. He has served as an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Report from 2017-2020. Prof. Wang has published over 150 top-tier journal articles that have been cited over 25,600 times.

Professor Sang Ouk Kim

Prof. Sang Ouk Kim is the Chair Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at KAIST, South Korea and serving as the directors for multiple organizations, including National Creative Research Initiative Center for Multi-Dimensional Directed Nanoscale Assembly, KAIS Institute for Nanocentury and KAIST Center for Ethics and Human Rights. Prof. Kim‘s research interest focuses on the directed molecular assembly of nanoscale materials, including graphene/2D materials and block copolymers, as a synthetic platform for novel materials discovery. His major original research achievements include the frontier research for directed self-assembly of block copolymers for semiconductor lithography, the world-first discovery of graphene oxide liquid crystal and single atom catalyst, which are generally recognized as significant milestones for the real-world application graphene based materials. Prof. Kim has published more than 280 SCI journal papers and delivered more than 450 invited presentations thus far and is also serving as an associate editor of Energy Storage Materials (elsevier) and editorial board members for many high-profile scientific journals, published by American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Elsevier, Springer Nature and so on. According to Google scholar statistics, Prof. Kim’s H-index is 88 and the total citation is over 28,000.