Mahmoud Abdel-Hafiez
- Physics,
- Materials Science
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum materials; Magnetism and superconductivity
Membership:
2018
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2023
Contact
University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Department of Applied Physics & Astronomy
Sharjah
United Arab Emirates
+49 69 798 472 58
mabdel-hafez(at)sharjah.ac.ae
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About me
As an AGYA alumnus, I aim to significantly contribute to innovation, education, and technology development between Germany and the Arab countries.
Academic career
| 2024 - today | Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Applied Physics & Astronomy, University of Sharjah, UAE |
| 2018 - today | Research Associate at the Department of Physics, Harvard University, USA |
| 2015 - 2024 | Research Associate at the Institute of Physics, University of Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2014 - 2017 | Faculty Member at the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai, China |
| 2013 - 2014 | Postdoctoral Researcher at Liege University, Belgium |
| 2012 - 2013 | Postdoctoral Researcher at Moscow State University, Russia |
| 2008 - 2012 | Ph.D. in Physics at the Dresden University of Technology, Germany |
| 2005 - 2007 | Master’s Degree in Physics at Fayoum University, Egypt |
- AGYA Publications
- Thermo-mechanical response of pristine and defective 2D hexagonal boron oxide
- Ultrafast Charge Transfer Dynamics in 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks/Re-Complex Hybrid Photocatalyst
- Evidence for the Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov state in bulk NbS2
- Synthesis, Structural Characterization, Photo-Physical and Magnetic Properties of Cobalt Salphen Pseudo Halide Complexes Showing Meta-Magnetic Ordering
- Sharp Peak of the Critical Current Density in BaFe2−xNixAs2 at Optimal Composition
- Single-Crystal Growth and Small Anisotropy of the Lower Critical Field in Oxypnictides: NdFeAsO1 - xFx
- My Commitment to AGYA
- Acting Alumni Co-Speaker
- Participation in 'Salon Sophie Charlotte' 2021, 2022, 2025
- Nomination Committee 'New AGYA Members' 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Former AGYA Co-President (2021-2022)
On a personal note
Must read in my discipline:
Physics Of The Impossible by Michio Kaku
Favourite novel:
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
The scientist from my country you should know:
Ahmed H. Zewail (1946-2016), Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999
