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Dr. Mohd Adnan Khan Joins the University of Alberta as an assistant professor.

Dr. Khan, an alumnus of KibriaLab, will be joining the Chemical and Materials Engineering Department at the University of Alberta this fall as an Assistant Professor. His “Energy Transition Lab” will be focusing on developing novel materials, technologies, and credible transition pathways towards Net-Zero emissions. Dr. Khan has a PhD in Material Science and Engineering and has spent the last 8 years working across the value chain of hydrogen and clean technology development, spanning material synthesis and characterization, reactor design, pilot demonstrations and system level analysis. His career has materialized into 6 granted US patents, 1 book chapter and over 37

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Congratulations to Shabab Saad for receiving 2022 GRInSTEM Award.

Congratulations to Shabab Saad for receiving 2022 GRInSTEM Award to scale up and commercialize the Carbon Fibre Project. This award will help in forming a spin-off company and compete for Phase III of Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge in 2023. Shabab Saad holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Calgary, AB. During his undergraduate career, he gained extensive experience in sol-gel synthesis of large pore size silica glass for optical fiber production at the UNM Center for High Technology Materials under the supervision of

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KibriaLab team among Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge finalists

Shabab’s project ‘Process Development for Transforming Alberta’s Asphaltenes into High-value Carbon Fibers’ received the Phase II Award in Carbon Fiber Grand Challenge competition. Link to news from UCalgary website: https://schulich.ucalgary.ca/news/researchers-turning-alberta-oil-sands-bitumen-high-value-carbon-fibres

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KibriaLab is named as one of the awardees in Alberta Innovate’s Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge

KibriaLab is named as one of the awardees in Alberta Innovate’s Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge. Alberta Innovates’ Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge is accelerating the development of pathways for large-scale production of carbon fibre and advanced manufacturing products from Alberta’s bitumen. Carbon fibre’s high strength, stiffness, and corrosion resistance coupled with its light weight make it better than many conventional metals and polymers used in transportation, infrastructure, construction and consumer products. The details of the Alberta Innovate’s Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge is: https://albertainnovates.ca/impact/newsroom/alberta-eyes-billion-dollar-carbon-fibre-market/

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Congratulations Nedal for receiving Elizabeth Cannon Graduate Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Thinking

Congratulations Nedal for receiving Elizabeth Cannon Graduate Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Thinking. Recipients of this award demonstrate research-related entrepreneurial activities through entrepreneurial research, innovative approaches to complex problems, developing/operating a business or social enterprise or community building through innovation. The details of the Elizabeth Cannon Graduate Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Thinking is: https://grad.ucalgary.ca/awards/award-opportunities/elizabeth-cannon-graduate-scholarship-entrepreneurial-thinking

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Dr. Aiguo Wang joined in Kibria group as a Postdoctoral Associate

Welcome aboard Dr. Aiguo Wang!Dr. Aiguo Wang joined in Kibria group as a Postdoctoral Associate. A short biography of Dr. Aiguo Wang:Dr. Aiguo Wang is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada. He received his BSc degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2004 and M.Sc. degree at Tsinghua University in 2007, China. After working as a chemical engineer for seven years in Key Laboratory of Industrial Separation and Environment Protection in China, He started his Ph.D. degree at the University of Calgary in 2018 under the co-supervision of Dr.

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Kibria Lab received UCalgary Teaching and Learning Grant (SoTL)

Kibria Lab received the University of Calgary Teaching and Learning Grant (SoTL). Since 2014, the University of Calgary Teaching and Learning Grants have awarded over $4 million in funding to 223 projects to support the implementation, critical examination and dissemination of evidence-based approaches to student learning. Funded by the Provost’s Office and supported by the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, the grants seek to enhance student learning experiences across campus. This year, approximately $640,000 was provided to a total of 36 projects. “Teaching excellence is at the heart of a rich learning experience for students, a commitment that the

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Muflih, Nedal, Nabil, and Tareq received Graduate Excellence Award from the Dept. of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at UCalgary

Congratulations to Muflih, Nedal, Nabil, and Tareq for receiving the Graduate Excellence Award from the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary. Nedal Marei is a Ph.D. candidate of Dr. Kibria Laboratory. Tareq Al-Attas is a Ph.D. student of Dr. Kibria Laboratory and co-supervised by Dr. Thangadurai. Muflih Adnan is also a Ph.D. Student of Dr. Kibria Laboratory. Shariful Kibria Nabil is an M.Sc. Student of Dr. Kibria Laboratory.

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