Kamel El-Khatib

Prof. Kamel El-khatib has more than 29 years research experience in Chemical Engineering Technology, 22 years especially for developing different kinds of new nano materials electrocatalyst and developing metallic bipolar plate for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell applications, wastewater treatment and electricity generation using microbial fuel cell. He  has experience in process design, technical evaluations for different industries and techno-economic analysis. He has participated in the development and analysis of extraction of salts from Quaroon lake and responsible for complete engineering tasks involving design, specification and installation of salt refinery. Also, pilot plant studies, economic and technical analysis of overall plant performance. He participated in the development of a novel and stable non-enzymatic glucose biosensor that based on Cu2O nanoparticles. He has an experience in water desalination using thermal and membrane technology. He published more than 70 peer reviewed papers in international Journals, 15 papers in conference and 6 papers in national journals with total citations 1170 and 1436, H-index 17 and 19 from Scopus and Google scholar, respectively. Presented a lot of research work at international and local conferences. He awarded and participated in 37 projects funded from national and international funding agencies as a principle investigator, co-principle investigator and member. He awarded a publication prize from Misr El-Khaier foundation, National Research Center Scientific excellence prize 2012, National Research Center publication excellence 2012 and Unilever sustainable living plan publication prize 2016. He served as head of the Systems and Information department for 4 years, head of the Engineering Research Division for one year and a deputy head for the Engineering Division for 6 years. He traveled in many scientific missions to Italy and United States. Supervised 8 PhD and 5 Master Thesis. Ruling on several research proposals, research projects reports, international researches for international journals, master's and doctoral dissertations in the field of specialization. He is participated in many training courses, workshops, local and international conferences. He is a member of the Arbitration Committee of the Promotions Committee in the field of Engineering Sciences. He is a Chairman of the Committee of Scientific Registrations and Research Projects for 6 years. He is a member of Technical Services Committee. He was assigned to teach at private universities, Misr University of Science and Technology and British University.