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Texas A&M at Qatar faculty and researchers receive QNRF funding for 14 projects

Published Oct 15, 2019

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The Qatar National Research Fund has funded 14 proposals submitted by Texas A&M University at Qatar faculty and researchers in the 12th QNRF NPRP-S cycle announced today.

Of the 334 eligible proposals submitted by institutions in Qatar, only 88 received funding. Texas A&M at Qatar submitted a total of 50 eligible proposals and had a 28% success rate.

Texas A&M at Qatar faculty and researchers who received awards this year are:

Chemical Engineering Program
Dr. Ahmed Abdala
Dr. Ahmed Abdel-Wahab
Dr. Ioannis Economou
Dr. Kostantinos Kakosimos
Dr. Mamoun Al-Rawashdeh

Electrical & Computer Engineering Program
Dr. Khalid Qaraqe
Dr. Haitham Abu-Rub
Dr. Muhammad Ismail

Mechanical Engineering Program
Dr. Bilal Mansoor

Petroleum Engineering Program
Dr. Nayef Alyafei
Dr. Albertus Retnanto
Dr. Thomas Seers

Science Program
Dr. Wieslaw Krolikowski
Dr. Mohammed Al-Hashimi

Several other faculty members and researchers received awards as collaborative PIs on the NPRP-S Cycle 12 with other intuitions in Qatar. Faculty and researchers who are PIs on other funded projects include:

Othmane Bouhali
Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Reginald Kogbara
Dhabia Al-Mohannadi
Shell Qatar

Ahmed Abdala
Qatar University

Konstantinos Kakosimos
Dhabia Al-Mohannadi
Shell Qatar

Also, Dr. Nayef Alyafei won the QNRF Cycle 3 "Best Representative Image of an Outcome" (BRIO) competition, which is designed to encourage researchers to tap into their artistic side by using stimulating images and visuals to communicate the outcomes of their QNRF-funded research to a wider audience, including the general public.