Dr. Fadwa El Mellouhi received her PhD in Physics focused on Computational Materials Science from the Université de Montréal, Canada in 2006 followed by a strong and diversified university teaching and research experience. She also holds a diploma from the ICTP funded by the UNESCO-IAEA in 2001. After the completion of her PhD, she worked as postdoctoral researcher at Université de Montréal, Canada, then in 2010 she joined Texas A&M University at Qatar where she worked until 2014 as an Assistant Research Scientist. Since 2014, she has been working as a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, Qatar.

Dr. Fadwa is recognized for her excellent scientific research in the area of accelerating the materials' discovery for the decarbonization of the energy sector by using Computational Physics, Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence. Her research experiences have resulted into numerous internationally impactful outcomes, strengthened by collaboration with experimental groups from US universities such as Texas A&M University and National Labs such as ORNL and PNNL, as well as local industrial partners on key economic, energetic and environmental grand challenges aiming at lowering greenhouse emissions. Her research brings a lot of visibility and covers, but not limited to, the design of materials for solar energy conversion, energy storage, carbon capture and conversion, hydrogen production and storage, smart coatings to fight COVID-19 contaminations as well as corrosion. Her research makes a significant contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7 (UN SDG 7) to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy.

Her research portfolio has resulted in being highly-impactful with cited research outcomes leading to an h-index of 30 with more than 400 citations/year over the past three years. This includes three patents, three copyrighted software solutions and 80 scientific publications with more than 20 publications in journals of impact factor of five or higher such as Nature 

Communications, Advanced Materials, Chemistry of Materials, Materials Horizons, and Energy Technology. Her work has also been recognized and awarded in renowned and specialized venues such as the HOPV-17 conference at Lausanne, Switzerland in 2017.

Having a solid experience with proposal writing, fund rising, reporting and grant management, she is currently involved with and leading several research projects. Over the past seven years, she has attracted as principal applicant, under a very competitive environment, a total funding exceeding 5.5 Million USD in addition to establishing multinational and multidisciplinary collaborations supported by cash co-funding from the likes of Shell, an oil and gas giant industry. As the principal applicant, she is currently managing active projects with external funds totaling 2 Million USD that will run beyond 2024 aiming at training students, researchers and producing transformative solutions. In one of her latest achievements, she was awarded a sub-project within a multinational/multidisciplinary cluster project (consortium) on the design of materials for the CO2 direct air capture and conversion.

During the past few years, she has developed a strong ability to define the methodology for conducting and disseminating research and for evaluating research results. She is currently teaching Physics to freshmen and involved in educating younger age students via mentoring and judging. She developed a fine research advising skillset that enabled her to train and supervise several postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, undergraduate summer students, high and middle school students. Her research experiences in Italy, Canada and Qatar made her an advocate of inclusion and promotor of diversity. As a female scientist in Computational Sciences, and pursuing an independent research program since 2010, her career path serves as an inspiration for young women in Africa and the Middle East, and will motivate them to pursue a career in Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Her current involvement in teaching and outreach in science is a reflection of her advocacy towards instructional excellence, outreach, and multiversity.