Principal Investigator

Professor Mohamed Eddaoudi

Director, Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research Center
Distinguished Professor, Chemical Science​​​​

Research Interests: Gas sorption, Metal Organic Frameworks, Catalysis, Nanomaterials, Sensors, CO2 capture, Thin films, Membranes, Gas separations, Gas storage

Research Scientists

Arijit Mallick

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Metal Organic Frameworks, Gas adsorption, Sensing

Hao Jiang, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Gas sorption, Metal Organic Frameworks, CO2 capture, X-Ray crystallography, Gas separations

Mickaele Bonneau

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Gas sorption, Metal Organic Frameworks, Gas separation, Gas storage, CO2 capture, Membranes, Thin films

Osama Shekhah, PhD

Principal Research Scientist​

Research Interests: Metal Organic Frameworks, MOF synthesis, MOF characterization, Thin films, Membranes, Gas separations, Gas storage

Prashant Bhatt, PhD

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Metal Organic Frameworks, X-Ray crystallography, Gas sorption, CO2 capture, Membranes, Gas separations, Gas storage

Sharath Kandambeth

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Crystal chemistry, Material chemistry, Porous materials

Vincent Guillerm

Senior Research Scientist

Research Interests: Metal-organic framework, COFs, Chemically stable MOFs, Reticular Chemistry, Material Design, Topology, Crystallography, Separation, Gas sorption

Research Group Staff

Abdulkarim Bukhari

Research Technician

Research Interests: Solid state chemistry, Gas adsorption, Advanced Porous Materials, MOF synthesis

Aleksander Shkurenko, PhD

Research Staff

Research Interests: Metal Organic Frameworks, MOF synthesis, MOF characterization, Crystal chemistry, X-Ray crystallography, Organic synthesis, Weak interactions

Ali Alansari

Safety Officer/Lab Manager

Research Interests: Membranes, Nanomaterials, Gas sorption, Water sorption, Laser

Shuvo Datta, Ph.D.

Research Scientist​

Research Interests: MOF synthesis, MOF characterization, Gas separations, Gas/liquid separation

Postdoctoral Fellows

Aleksandr Sapianik

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: heterometallic complexes, MOFs, small molecules separation, preorganized building blocks, Gas sorption

Bingbing Chen

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: MOFs, green synthesis, gas adsorption and separation

Biplab Joarder

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Synthesis and Characterization of PCPs, Advanced Porous Materials, Gas separation

Marina Barsukova

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Metal-organic Framworks, Chemically stable MOFs, Gas separation, Gas storage, Sensing

Mostafa Zeama

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: MOFs, Photoredox catalysis, DFT, Gas sensors

Swati Jindal

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Metal-Organic Materials, Luminescence, Organic synthesis

Tian Jin, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Catalysis, Metal Organic Frameworks, Porous materials

Vijay Kumar Maka

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Stimuli-Responsive MOFs, COFs, POPs, Functional Organic-/Inorganic Materials

Vinayak Kale

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research Interests: Electrochemistry, Energy storage and conversion applications, Nanomaterials

Youdong Cheng

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Advanced Porous Materials, Membrane Separation, Nanomaterials

PhD Students

Abdulhadi Alhaji

Ph.D. student

Research Interests: Metal Organic Frameworks, Gas sorption, Gas separations, Natural gas upgrading

Maram Almalki

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Metal Organic Frameworks, Chemically stable MOFs, MOF characterization

Rawan Al Natour

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Metal Organic Frameworks, MOF design and synthesis, Gas separation, CO2 capture, Catalysis

Salma Benzaria

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Adsorption, Gas storage, Gas separation, Metal Organic Frameworks, MOFs

Taslim Melliti

MS/PhD Student

Research Interests: Metal Organic Frameworks, MOF design and synthesis

Tengjiao He

PhD Student

Research Interests: Gas separation membranes, Porous materials

Xiting Yuan

Ph.D. Students

Research Interests: Metal-organic Framworks, Nanoclusters, Catalysis

Masters Students

Abdulaziz Alali

M.S./PhD Student

Research Interests: MOFs, COFs, supermolecular frameworks, photocatalysis, hydrogen production, Organic synthesis

Saba Bin Hemid

Master Student

Research Interests: MOFs, Synthesis, Solid-State Materials, Porous materials

Ahmed M. Rezk

Research Staff