Projects
Improving the native ecosystem to enhance water sustainability and food security in Qatar: integrated modeling assessment for the Ecosystem, Water, Food Nexus
2023-2025
Description
This proposal aims to develop a holistic model to assess the possibility of improving native plants suitable for grazing as an ecosystem service to enhance water sustainability and food security. This objective will be achieved by considering the interlinkages within the water, food, and ecosystem, emphasizing climate change to provide sustainable strategies for enhancing food and water security.
Key info
My role: Principle Investigator
Funded by Qatar University as High Impact Grant
Leadership: Dr. Ammar Abulibdeh
Sustainable and Cost-Effective Production of Microalgae-based Superior Fish Feed in Qatar
2020-2023
Description
The proposed project will develop a sustainable and economical marine microalgae-based superior fish feed in Qatar. It will build upon the decade long research on marine microalgae, through various completed and ongoing projects, at Algal Technology Program (ATP) under the Center for Sustainable Development (CSD) at Qatar University. It will also evaluate social acceptance of various forms of fish feed in Qatar.
Key info
My role: Principle Investigator
Funded by Qatar National Research Fund under the National Priority Research Program
Leadership: Dr. Probir Das
Assessing the contribution of oil platforms and the impact of decommissioning scenarios to marine biodiversity, productivity and connectivity
2020-2024
Description
The aim of the project is to assess the contribution of oil platforms, existing in the Qatar EEZ, to the local and regional biodiversity, productivity and connectivity. It also establishes pros and cons of each of the considered decommissioning scenarios (from complete removal to R2R) from an ecological, economic and social perspective. The project will also generate recommendations for policy makers and industrial stakeholders based on the comparative analyses of the considered decommissioning scenarios.
Key info
My role: Principle Investigator
Funded by Qatar National Research Fund under the National Priority Research Program.
Leadership: Dr. Radhouane Ben Hamadou
Investigation of the Seawater Desalination process Impacts on the Gulf‘s Marine Biodiversity
2019-2023
Description
Since marine microorganisms are the main primary food producers for the marine food web, the main goal of this projects consists of understanding from environmental and socioeconomic prospects the spatiotemporal effects of desalination brines on the aquatic microflora.
Key info
My role: Principle Investigator
Funded by Qatar National Research Fund under the National Priority Research Program
Leadership: Dr. Imen Saadaoui
Example output
Journal publication
Example output
Journal publication
Smart Urban Planning by Connecting Buildings and Communities
2019-2022
Description
The overarching goal of this project is to investigate advanced soft controls that allow buildings to optimally plan and manage their energy loads, and use the energy savings to engage in transactive energy trade within a community of buildings. It also examines the role prosumers can play in the future of urban development, and the energy reduction and environmental impacts that they can contribute to.
Key info
My role: Principle Investigator
Funded by Qatar National Research Fund under the National Priority Research Program
Leadership: Dr. Esmat Zaidan
Example output
Journal publication
Understanding and Enabling “Communities” within Smart Cities: A Literature Review
Example output
Journal publication
Medical Wild Herbs in Qatar and the Gulf: A Historical- Pharmacological Approach
2018-2020
Description
The proposed project will document the use of herbal medicine in Qatar, collecting oral information through ethnographic interviews and oral history methods and conducting laboratory analysis to discover active ingredients in order to promote development of herbal medicine in local treatment. It also explores business models and sustainable pathways for the local herbal medicine industry.
Key info
My role: Principle Investigator
Funded by Qatar University as High Impact Grant
Leadership: Dr. Kaltham Al-Ghanim
Example output
Journal publication
Quantification and Conceptual Framing of the Water, Energy and Food Nexus Interlinkages in the GCC Countries
2017
Description
This research aims at analyzing interactions between water, energy and food issues in the GCC countries using an original integrated assessment method of resources links and governance related challenges. The particular focus of the project is on risks facing supply security and coastal infrastructure.
Key info
My role: Lead Principle Investigator
Funded by Qatar University as Graduate Student Project
Leadership: Dr. Mohammad Al-Saidi
Example output
Journal publication
Assessment of Urban Climate Change Initiatives and Policy Options in the State of Qatar
2016-17
Description
This research aims at analyzing interactions between water, energy and food issues in the GCC countries using an original integrated assessment method of resources links and governance related challenges. The particular focus of the project is on risks facing supply security and coastal infrastructure
Key info
My role: Lead Principle Investigator
Funded by Qatar National Research Fund under the Undergraduate Research Experience
Leadership: Dr. Mohammad Al-Saidi
Example output
Book Chapter
Enquiry-Based Learning in the Curriculum of Master-Level Programs in the Land and Water Nexus
2013-2016
Description
The EBL-Nexus project puts forward an innovative idea of linking this goal to concrete exemplary case studies from the partner countries. In this sense, it will identify examples of the interactions of land-water use problems in Jordan (Azraq aquifer), Sudan (Gezira irrigation scheme) and Ethiopia (Gondar-Dembeia-Koladiba rain-fed scheme) and use them to develop case studies for enquiry-based learning in the master programs in resources management of the participating HEIs.
Key info
My role: Main proposal writer and Principle Investigator (project coordinator)
Funded by DAAD – German Academic Exchange Service
Leadership: Dr. Lars Ribbe
Example output
Education Movie
Example output
Educational Movie
Research Cluster on Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus
2013-2016
Description
The aim of this project is establish a research cluster on water-energy-food nexus at TH-Koeln University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany. The research cluster brings together different researchers from TH-Koeln who work on nexus-related issues. Together, the cluster members develop common research in collaboration with local stakeholders and international partners.
Key info
My role: Proposal writing and Principle Investigator (project coordinator)
Funded by Ministry for Research and Innovation of State of NWR
Leadership: Dr. Lars Ribbe
Example output
Academic Synthesis Report
Example output
Journal Publication
