Dr. Mohammed Al-Hashimi, FRSC

Dr. Mohammed Al-Hashimi received his MSci Honors degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 2003, followed by a PhD in 2007, from Queen Mary University of London, UK. He subsequently worked as a Senior Development Chemist at Evotec, Oxfordshire, UK and later joined the Chemistry department at Imperial College London as a postdoc in 2008. Before joining TAMQ in 2013, Al-Hashimi in 2012 worked at Qatar University as an Assistant Professor. Al-Hashimi currently serves on the editorial board of the journals Current Organic Chemistry and Current Organocatalysis. He has significant project management experience in industrial and academic settings, with direct experience in corporate research and customer-focused business units and managing grants in the UK and Qatar. He currently supervises a team of six postdoctoral research assistants and twelve undergraduate students funded by the Qatar National Research Fund. Al-Hashimi has published over 85 peer-reviewed papers and holds four patents with an h-Index of 30. He is a recipient of the Donald C. Bradley Prize, the ASPIC Prize, the Lefevre Prize, the ACMME Research Prize, and the Best Research Presentation Award in Energy and Environment Pillar ARC16. Most recently, he was awarded the TAMUQ Faculty Research Excellence Award and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Al-Hashimi's research team focuses on the synthesis of organic polymers, particularly the design and synthesis of organic semiconductor materials for a range of optoelectronic applications, including field-effect transistors, photovoltaic devices, and light-emitting diodes and sensors. His interests also include synthesis of recoverable, reusable homogeneous, and heterogeneous catalysts. Click here to visit the Al-Hashimi Research Group.

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The research in Al-Hashimi's group focuses on the synthesis of organic polymers in particular the "design and synthesis of organic semiconductor materials" for a range of optoelectronic applications, including field effect transistors, photovoltaic devices, light emitting diodes and sensors. This has made enormous scientific and commercial progress over the last 10 years, mainly driven by the potential of applications such as light-emitting diodes (OLEDS) for display and large area lighting, field effect transistors (OFETs) for flexible backplanes and e-paper and solar cells (OPV) for large area energy generation.