Ahmed Galal

Prof. Galal earned his bachelor and master degrees in Chemistry from Cairo University and master and PhD from the University of Cincinnati, OH, USA. He joined the chemistry department of Cairo University as assistant professor on 1992 where he is currently a full professor. Professor Galal worked at several universities where he assumed Professor Visit ships including: Ulm, Erlangen, Ilmenau, and Free University (Germany); Cincinnati and Texas A&M (USA); Liverpool (UK); Polytechnic of Turin (Italy); United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.

Professor Galal served as member of Strategic Planning and Technical Support Center, a member of Board of Research, Development and Innovation Program, a Program funded by the European Union of the Ministry of Higher Education of Egypt.

Professor Galal also served as Dean of Faculty of Science, Cairo University and as Interim Head of Center of Hazardous and Environmental Mitigation of the University.

Professor Galal earned several honors: Graduate Fellowship Award, Quantum Chemical Corporation (USA), Fellowship award of the “Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung,”

He also acts as member in National Committee on New and Advanced Materials, the committee of Basic Sciences, of the Academy of Science and Technology of Egypt.

Professor Galal was the Egyptian delegate to: International Science Technology and Innovation Center for South-south Cooperation under the Auspices of UNESCO, (Malaysia); The inauguration of the Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI) (Slovenia); The Center for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned and other Developing Countries (NAM S&T), Cochin – (India); The RussNano Forum (Russia); COMEST meeting on Ethics of Science and Technology under the Auspices of UNESCO (Qatar); COMEST meeting on Ethics of Science and Technology under the Auspices of UNESCO (Qatar).

Professor Galal is a member of the Advisory Board for International Institute for Multifunctional Materials for Energy Conversion (IIMEC), Texas A&M University (USA).

Professor Galal earned Cairo University Prize in Excellence in Research in the area of Advanced Materials for Technological Applications. He authored and co-authored over 140 published and presented papers in international journals and conferences. He supervised several theses that led to both Master and PhD degrees.

His research covers a wide spectrum of interests including surface tailoring with nano-structured materials for energy conversion, storage and sensing applications. Synthesis and modification of carbon based nano-structures with emphasis on graphene and carbon nanotubes, and perovskites. Another area of research interest is corrosion prevention and control using smart coating and studies of newly developed super-alloys for advanced applications.

Professor Galal is member of the editorial board of “Talanta” published by Elsevier and is reviewer for several international journals.