Mohamed Mokhtar M. Mostafa
King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Solvent-Free Biginelli Reactions Catalyzed by Hierarchical Zeolite Utilizing a Ball Mill Technique: A Green Sustainable Process
Biography
Dr. Mohamed Mokhtar M. Mostafa, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the
National Research Centre (NRC), Cairo, Egypt and Faculty of Science King
Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has served almost 39 years in
research institutes and academic universities. He spent 14 years full time at NRC,
where he started as research assistant 1989, then progressed to assistant lecturer
in 1993; next he went on to study for PhD at the Faculty of Science, Cairo University,
which I completed in1997. He then, became a Researcher at NRC until 2003. In
the period from May 1998 to September 1999 he was a DAAD fellow at 34th
International Seminar for Chemical Engineering and Physical Chemistry,
Karlsruhe University, Karlsruhe, Germany. He was promoted to Associate
Professor in June, 2003 at NRC. Since August 2004, he was seconded to KAU as Associate
Professor at Faculty of Science, KAU. From July 2012 to now, he has been
Professor of Physical Chemistry at NRC and KAU.
Abstract
Prof. Mokhtar research interest is in Materials
Chemistry; particularly interested in the application and properties of nanomaterials,
heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic materials. He established the Surface Chemistry and Catalytic
Studies group at KAU. Together with his colleagues at Chemistry Dept., Faculty
of Science, KAU, he has contributed to and participated in a number of
international and national collaborative scientific projects. He has published over 102 refereed publications
and 8 International patents and he has worked on numerous collaborative
projects with public and private sector organizations. His h-index
according to ISI-Thomson Reuters is 25.