Assistant Professor

Bio

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

• August 2020- present: Assistant Dean for student affairs at the CNHS - Abu Dhabi Campus

• August 2015- present: Assistant Professor in Zayed University- Abu Dhabi Campus

• Oct 2012 – march 2013: post-doctoral researcher in the Institute of Researches on Catalysis and Environment of Lyon and ERAMET Paris (a leading French mining and metallurgical group operating internationally)

• Feb 2009 – sep 2012: Researcher in the Institute of Researches on Catalysis and Environment of Lyon/France

• Spring 2011&2012: Teaching assistant in the CPE Lyon (School of engineering Chemistry Physics and Electronics of Lyon)

Office

Abu Dhabi - Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi Campus, FF2-1-005

Phone:

+971-2-599 3746

Email:

Teaching Areas

General Chemistry ( I and II)
Inorganic Chemistry
Organic chemistry

Research and Professional Activities

Dr. Bou Orm’s research interests, as a Materials Chemist, focuses on the design, preparation and characterization of hybrid nanomaterials and catalysts for environmental applications especially for water treatment (PAH, other organic pollutants removals, and de-nitration)

Her research work is a multi-disciplinary that consists of the combination and expertise in the inorganic and coordination chemistry, sol-gel, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, hybrid nanomaterials, heterogeneous and environmental catalysis. She has worked on the Aza-Michael and Heck reaction in preparation of organic molecules for the functionalization of the surface of her researched materials. Moreover, Dr. Bou Orm has also developed a molecular approach "bottom-up & one pot" in order to obtain crystallized metal oxide nanoparticles with a better control of the surface of functionalization. Furthermore, she also managed to control the adsorption by the type of on-surface function of the materials. One of her achievements is that she has successfully added a new benefit to the powders by functionalizing the nanocomposites based on textiles, which allowed treating bigger volumes of polluted water effectively within shorter time; in addition to developing a wide range of nanomaterials that are more efficient in terms of adsorption and recyclability in comparison with the commercial solids (Strata-C18, HLB, Envi-Carb, SBSE, Envi-disk). Recently, she started working on the cross-linked particle membranes that are ZrO2 based, to develop her project on the removal of PAH from water samples

Dr. Bou Orm has also worked with western research governmental authorities on the development of heterogeneous catalysts and the preparation of nanomaterials for selective extraction of Lithium in the brines in Argentina. She was involved in a project with the Space Agency to work on the analysis of samples that ara analogues to the Marsian soil.

She is also involved in a project of heavy metals analysis in the water and dust across the UAE, as well as the study of their health impact on the population.

Google Scholar Profile

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Design of Hybrid PAH Nanoadsorbents by Surface Functionalization of ZrO2 Nanoparticles with Phosphonic Acids, N Bou Orm, T Gréa, M Hamandi, A Lambert, F Lafay, E Vulliet, S Daniele, Nanomaterials 11 (4), 952 2021.

• Contamination Assessment of Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soil, in the Liwa Area (UAE), AA Al-Taani, Y Nazzal, FM Howari, J Iqbal, N Bou Orm, CM Xavier, ... Toxics 9 (3), 53, 2021.

• Advantages of first-derivative reflectance spectroscopy in the VNIR-SWIR for the quantification of olivine and hematite, N Bou-Orm, AA AlRomaithi, M Elrmeithi, FM Ali, Y Nazzal, FM Howari, ... Planetary and Space Science 188, 104957 2020.

• Investigating aquifer vulnerability and pollution risk employing modified DRASTIC model and GIS techniques in Liwa area, United Arab Emirates, Y Nazzal, FM Howari, J Iqbal, I Ahmed, NB Orm, A Yousef, Groundwater for Sustainable Development 8, 567-578 2019.

• Hyperspectroscopic and microtopographic analyses of salt crust forms on arid, silty clay loam desert soils, FM Howari, F Al Aydaroos, Y Nazzal, J Iqbal, N Bou Orm Geologia Croatica 72 (1), 43-49, 2019.

• Article TiO2-Based Hybrid Nanocomposites Modified by Phosphonate Molecules as Selective PAH Adsorbents, NB Orm, QA Trieu, S Daniele Molecules 23 (11), 3046 2018.

• Influence of acid-base properties of doped TiO2 supports on the activity of Pd-Cu/(Mg, Nb)-TiO2 catalysts for nitrate hydrogenation, N Bou-Orm, A Iorgu, S Daniele, N Guilhaume TOCAT 7 KYOTO2014 2014.

• Smart Hybrid Nano-Composite Devices for Removal of PAH Micro-pollutant from Wastewaters, S Daniele, N Bou-Orm IAP 2014 Interfaces in water and Environmental Science 2014.

• Modification of acid–base properties of TiO2 by Nb and Mg dopants: Influence on the activity of Pd–Cu/(Mg, Nb)–TiO2 catalysts for nitrate hydrogenation, N Bou-Orm, A Iorgu, S Daniele, N Guilhaume, Applied Catalysis A: General 467, 414-420, 2013.

• Synthesis of 2-(arylamino) ethyl phosphonic acids via the aza-Michael addition on diethyl vinylphosphonate, NB Orm, Y Dkhissi, S Daniele, L Djakovitch, Tetrahedron 69 (1), 115-121 2013, Smart Hybrid Nano-Composite Devices for Water Treatment, N Bou-Orm, Y Dkhissi, L Djakovitch, S Daniele European Materials Research Society, EMRS 2012.