Research Staff

Imene El Tall

Laboratory Manager

Research Interests: Microscopy, Sterility testing, Molecular biology

Adnan Qamar, Ph.D.

System Modelling and Data Specialist​

Research Interests: ​Computational Fluid Dynamics, Machine learning, Data Analytics and High Performance Computing (HPC)

Amin Haider

Research Technician

Research Interests: Biochar production, SandX production

Chengyan Zhao

​Research Technician

Dan Hu

Lab Technician

Darwin Alexander Castillo

Research Specialist

Research Interests: Molecular and synthetic biology, biotechnology,, Microbiology, Plant biology

Ghada Mohammed

Lab Technician

Research Interests: Water Treatment, Microbiology

Hongbo Zhang

Lab Assistant

Mohammed Al-Amri

Lab Technician

Research Interests: CAD designing, Rapid prototyping, Scientific glassblowing

Mohamed El Shaer

Lab Specialist

Najeh Kharbatia

Staff Scientist

Research Interests: Gas chromatography, Liquid chromatography, Metabolomics, Lipidomics, Trace Analysis, Environmental analysis, Mass spectrometry, Electron Ionization, Collision induced dissociation

Oliver López, Ph.D.

Research Specialist

Research Interests: Remote sensing, Hydrology, Water resources

Samir K. M. Al Mashharawi

​Research Specialist

Research Interests: Hydrology, Evapotranspiration, Agricultural monitoring, Crop health, Irrigation efficiency

Yogesh Singh, Ph.D.

​Research Specialist

Research Interests: ​Water quality (analysis, treatment and monitoring)seawater desalination (SWRO/MD), Pretreatment, Membrane fouling/ scaling