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Dr. Mohamed Mokhtar M. Mostafa, Professor of
Physical Chemistry at the National Research Centre
(NRC), Cairo, Egypt and Faculty of Science King
Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
He has served almost 39 years in research institutes
and academic universities. He spent 14 years full
time at NRC, where he started as research assistant
۱۹۸۹, then progressed to assistant lecturer in 1993;
next he went on to study for PhD at the Faculty of
Science, Cairo University, which I completed in1997.
He then, became a Researcher at NRC until 2003. In
the period from May 1998 to September 1999 he was
a DAAD fellow at 34th International Seminar for
Chemical Engineering and Physical Chemistry,
Karlsruhe University, Karlsruhe, Germany. He was
promoted to Associate Professor in June, 2003 at
NRC. Since August 2004, he was seconded to KAU as
Associate Professor at Faculty of Science, KAU. From
July 2012 to now, he has been Professor of Physical
Chemistry at NRC and KAU. Prof. Mokhtar research
Dr. Mohamed Mokhtar interest is in Materials Chemistry; particularly
M. Mostafa interested in the application and properties of
nanomaterials, heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic
materials. He established the Surface Chemistry and
Department of Chemistry, Catalytic Studies group at KAU. Together with his
colleagues at Chemistry Dept., Faculty of Science,
Faculty of Science, King
KAU, he has contributed to and participated in a
Abdulaziz University, 21589 number of international and national collaborative

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia scientific projects. He has published over 104
refereed publications and 8 International patents and
E-mail: he has worked on numerous collaborative projects
mmokhtar2000@yahoo.com with public and private sector organizations. His h-
index according to ISI-Thomson Reuters is 26.

Talk Title
Talk Date : Wednesday ٤ Non-Conventional Oxidative

March 2020 Dehydrogenation of Propane to Propylene
over VOx/ZrO2 Catalysts
Place: Hall A

Time: 11:30-12:00

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