Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer), School of Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, 2025-present
Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2022-2025
Postdoctoral Fellow, Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, 2018 – 2022
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea, 2015 – 2018
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, UNIST, South Korea, 2010 – 2015
UNIST Best Research Award, UNIST, 2016, for distinguished doctoral graduates.
Research Excellence Award, School of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, UNIST, 2015, for excellent graduate students of the school in research.
Excellent Presentation Award, CAE and Applied Mechanics Division, the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers, Korea, 2014
Tesfay Berhe Gebreegziabher (Co-supervised with Dr Yolanda Sanchez Vicente)
Research interests: Hydrogen storage using active carbon materials (simulations and experiments)
Vlad (Vladyslav) Koziar (Co-supervisor: Dr Sherry Chen)
Research interests: Mechanical metamaterials
Basma K. Labani (Prof Udo Schwingenschloegl's group)
Research interests: 2D Materials, First-Principles Calculations, Reaction Mechanism, Computational Chemistry, Computational Physical Chemistry, Thermochemistry, CCUS, Gas sequestration, Catalysis
Mohammad Alharthy (Prof Udo Schwingenschloegl's group)
Research interests: Materials Modeling, DFT, Molecular Dynamics, Reaction Mechanism, Process Modelling, Computational Physic
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