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Mohamed Khayet
Professor
University Complutense of Madrid
Spain
Biography
Mohamed Khayet is Director of the University Complutense of Madrid (UCM) Research Group: “Membranes and Renewable Energy” affiliated to Campus Moncloa of International Excellence. Associated Researcher in the Institute IMDEA Water, IMDEA Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies. Ph.D. in Sciences Physics in 1997 (University Complutense of Madrid). He is professor of Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics, General Physics and Renewable Energy Applications at the Department of Applied Physics I, Faculty of Physics, University Complutense of Madrid (UCM). He is an expert on membrane science and technology (Membrane design and fabrication by different techniques, membrane processes including membrane distillation, MD; emerging technologies), renewable energy applications (solar thermal and photovoltaic energy) and water treatment (Desalination, wastewater treatment, etc.) among others. He has coordinated various national and international projects funded by different institutions (EU, Middle East Desalination Research Center, Spanish Ministry of External Affaires, Abengoa Water, etc.). He is currently coordinator of the EU project TEMPUS (Solar Energy System Design using Advanced Learning Aids, 2012-2015). He participated in other national and international projects. He contributed a substantial number of articles (more than 100 papers since 2000) on the subject of membrane science and technology to various international refereed journals (H-index 31). He filed 3 International Patents on the fabrication of novel membranes for desalination by Membrane Distillation (MD). Recently, he published 2 books: “Membrane Distillation: Principles and Applications, Elsevier (2011)” and “Membrane Modification: Technology and Applications, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group (2012)”. He is also author of other two books and various chapters in books. He supervised various research studies (Ph.D. thesis, master and undergraduate students). He is member of the European Desalination Society (EDS), the European Membrane Society (EMS), the North American Membrane Society (NAMS), and the Royal Spanish Society of Physics (RSEF). He has delivered many oral presentations at international conferences on membranes and membrane processes. He gave various seminars in national and international Universities and organized seminar cycles. He is actually member of the editorial board of the Journals: “Desalination”, “Applied Membrane Science & Technology”, “Membrane Water Treatment (MWT)”, “Membranes”, “Polymers”, “Journal of Membrane Science and Research”, “Applied Sciences” and Journal of Materials Science and Nanotechnology. He received the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) 5th Award in 2012 on Alternative Water Resources (Saudi Arabia) for his novel and creative work membrane distillation technology that he has studied and promoted in all its theoretical and experimental aspects (from membrane synthesis to implementation).
Research Interest
Design and fabrication of smart membranes, nano-fibrous membranes, hollow fibers, nano-composites, thermal conductivity of nano-fluids, Transport phenomena through dense and porous media, Solar energy, Separation processes through membranes, Thermodynamics properties of solid surfaces, polymers, Theoretical models and optimization using artificial neural networks and response surface methodology.