HomeCollegesCollegesCollege of Natural and Health SciencesFaculty And StaffProfilesDr. Imen Ben Salem
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Doctor in Physics, Institute of Physics of Rennes, France, 2012.
Master of Mechanics and Acoustic Engineering, University of Technology of Maine Le Mans, France.

Bio

Currently, Dr. Imen Ben Salem serves as an Assistant Professor in Physics at the College of Natural and Health Sciences, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Dr. Ben Salem is an active member of the CNHS group focusing on teaching, research, instrument fabrication, and with space research team to establish Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Laboratory, which supports research lines in space science, remote sensing, Mars-related manned and unmanned missions, and CO2 storage and sequestration projects. Her research interests include but are not limited to solid and fluid mechanics, multiphase flow studies, theoretical and computational fluid modeling (CFD) with the simulation of chemical kinetics, technological development for energy applications, clean and environmental protection in general, Earth science, planetary science, geophysics, light scattering behavior, etc. 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

  • Spring 2020- present: Assistant Professor in Zayed University- Abu Dhabi Campus.

  • September 2018 – May 2019: Visitor Assistant Professor at the University of Science Sfax Tunis.

  • September 2015 – May 2018: Adjunct Assistant Professor at Paris Sorbonne university Abu Dhabi, Sciences and Engineering Department.

  • June 2013 – May 2016: Postdoctoral Researcher at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in UAE.

  • Spring 2011&2012: Teaching assistant in the Institute of Physics Rennes1- France.

 
Office

Abu Dhabi - Khalifa City, FF1-1-037

Phone:

02 599 3853

Email:
Teaching Areas

- General Physics I, II + Laboratory (PHY201, PHY202)
- Internship (ENV490)
- Senior Project (ENV491)
- Experimental Physics
- Classical physics
- Numerical Physics
- Acousto-optics

Research and Professional Activities

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

  • Fluid Mechanics: Multiphase flow flows in porous media and trickle bed reactors. Tools: ANSYS Fluent (Computational Fluid Dynamics model based on finite volume method).

  • Petroleum: Tools: Stomp-EOR (Subsurface flow and transport software for Enhanced Oil Recovery), Stomp-CO2 (Subsurface flow and transport software for CO2 sequestration.

  • Instruments: Spectroradiometer/Hyperspectral Camera/ X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)/ Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)/ UV-Spectroradiometer/ XRF (X-ray fluorescence)/ SEM (scanning electron microscope).

  • Space science, remote sensing, Mars-related manned and unmanned missions.

  • Mathematics: Numerical Methods, Differential Equations and Fourier series, Statistics.

  • Acoustics: Nonlinear acoustics, the acoustics in solids, the acoustics of Poroelastic materials, CND.

  • Materials: Mechanics of heterogeneous materials, Physics, and rheology of polymers.

  • Image processing: Matlab, ImageJ, and Avizo (3D analysis software for Scientific and industrial data)

  • Programming: C, C++, Maple, Labview, Matlab, Python, IDE Arduino.

Research Projects:

  • Carbon Footprints: An Imminent threat creating insecurity and instability on quality of life (PI), Zayed University, 2021.

  • Detection of COVID-19 Saliva Components by Cucurbit uril-based Reduced Graphene Oxide Amine Functionalized Electrodes (CO-PI), UAEU/ZU Joint Research Grants (2021).

  • Developing highly efficient and long-term durable HTM-free perovskite solar cells (CO-PI), UAEU/ZU Joint Research Grants (2021).

Google Scholar Profile

ResearchGate

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Salem, I. B., Sharma, M., Kumaresan, P. R., Karthi, A., Howari, F. M., Nazzal, Y., & Xavier, C. M. (2022). An investigation on Morphological and Mineralogical Characters of Posidonius Floor Fractured Lunar Impact Crater Using Lunar Remote Sensing data. Remote Sensing, 14(4), 814. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14040814

  2. Salem, I. B., Nazzal, Y., Howari, F. M., Sharma, M., Mogaraju, J. K., & Xavier, C. M. (2022). Geospatial assessment of the groundwater quality with the distinctive portrayal of heavy metals using Geostatistics over Liwa basin, United Arab Emirates. Water, 14(6), 879. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14060879

  3.  Imen Ben Salem, Maisa El Gamal, Manish Sharma, Fares M. Howari, Yousef Nazzal, Cijo Xavier, Fareeda M. Almenhali, Characterization of biochar produced from Al Ghaf Tree for CO2 Capture. Energy Reports (2022).

  4. Howari, F.M., Sharma, M., Nazzal, Y., El-Keblawy, A., Mir, S., Xavier, C.M., Salem, I.B., Al-Taani, A.A. and Alaydaroos, F. (2022). Invasion Rate of Prosopis juliflora, and impact on evapotranspiration and groundwater in the Northern part of United Arab Emirates. Plants, 11(5), 682. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11050682

  5. Salem, I. B., El Gamal, M., Sharma, M., Hameedi, S., & Howari, F. M. (2021). Utilization of the UAE date palm leaf biochar in carbon dioxide capture and sequestration processes. Journal of Environmental Management, 299, 113644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113644

  6. Salem, I. B., Saleh, M. B., Iqbal, J., El Gamal, M., & Hameed, S. (2021). Date palm waste pyrolysis into biochar for carbon dioxide adsorption. Energy Reports, 7, 152 159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2021.06.027

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