Assistant Professor

Bio

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

• 2016 – Present Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences, Zayed University, Dubai.

• Teacher of Chemistry, Physics and Career Counsellor (August, 2015 – February 2016)

• Resalah International School of Science, Sharjah, U.A.E.

• Online Instructor of Science and Philosophy of Science (May, 2015 – ongoing collaboration)

• Avicenna Academy, Sheffield, U.K.

• Post-doctorate Researcher (January, 2015 – May, 2015)

• Petroleum Institute (EDNOC), Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.

• Teaching Assistant (February, 2011 – December, 2011)

• University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K.

• Research Assistant (June, 2008 – September, 2008 and July, 2009 – August, 2009)

• Kuwait Institute of Scientific Research, Kuwait.

Office

Dubai Academic City, D-L2-14

Phone:

+ 971 4 4021646

Email:

Teaching Areas

• Chemistry
• Chemical Engineering
• Philosophy of Science
• Science Education

Research and Professional Activities

Dr. Malik’s research is in the area of porous materials and adsorption. He specializes in combining and integrating different characterisation techniques for better understanding of porous structures of nanoporous materials. In his research, he has used an integrated round of mercury porosimetry, gas adsorption, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), cryogenic nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), X-ray scanning, scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) to analyse silica sol-gels and fuel cell layers. Additionally, he has used several modelling techniques to simulate adsorption phenomenon within porous materials using MATLAB and PASCAL via mean field density function theory (MFDT). Moreover, he has used several imaging software to reconstruct fuel cell layers using X-ray imaging. He intends to research further into how the porous structures of fuel cell layers can be better understood and correlated with fuel cell efficiency.

He is open to collaborative work in the characterization of nanoporous materials and also multidisciplinary work in the intersection of science and philosophy.

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