Basic and applied Science Research areas

1. Nanoscience

• Heterogeneous catalysis for high temperature and pressure conversion of pollutant gases (CO₂, CO, etc,) to add-value liquid petrochemical products production and Power-to- X applications.
• Biomedical applications (light therapy for cancer tissues, drug delivery release systems, detection and quantification of proteins, etc).
• Photocatalytic remediation of different water pollutants using visible/solar irradiations.
• Nanostructured conductive Carbon (Graphene/CNTs/CNFs) and polymer materials for inkjet and laser printed 2D and 3D wearable (Flexible) electronics devices and IoT applications (ultra supercapacitors, Li-batteries, thermoelectric devices, biosensors, and gas, temperature and humidity sensors)
• Solar energy conversion, nanophotonic, optoelectronic applications, green hydrogen generation
• Biofuel production from biowaste
• Carbon nanostructured materials for photocatalysis and water treatment (toxic metal ions, and organic pollutants).
• Nanoporous materials and core-shell nanomaterials and their application in sensors, adsorbents, and drug delivery.

2. Biotechnology

• Medical / Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: diagnostics; biomarkers; therapeutics.
• Microbiological Biotechnology: Host – pathogen interface, bio-active products
• Agricultural Biotechnology: Microbiology, pest / disease control; GMO`s.
• Pharmaceutical Chemistry: Drug Design, development, delivery and Active pharmaceutical ingredients: synthesis, formulation and scale up.
• Industrial and environmental biotechnology

3. Applied and Computational Mathematics

• Computational methods for ordinary, fractional, and partial differential equations
• Fractional Calculus and applications
• Dynamical systems and applications
• Mathematical Modelling (Biology, Engineering, Climate and Ecology, …)
• Applications of computational mathematics to science and engineering
• Stochastic process

4. Energy Materials

• Nano-Physics, Nano-structures for optoelectronics, Thermoelectricity and Energy application
• Nano-Dots, Nano-wires and Graphene based materials.
• Green Hydrogen (Materials physical properties)
• Optical and electrical properties of Carbon nanostructures-based materials and devices
• Nano-sensors
• Device Physics (including Solar cells and Light Emitting Diodes)

5. Space Environment

• Space Environment Program
• Space Environment
• Space Weather
• Space Plasma
• Solar Physics
• Geomagnetism
• Global Navigation Satellite Systems
• Heliospheric Physics
• Ionospheric Physics
• Cosmic Rays
• Elementary Particles
• Earth's Atmosphere
• Detector Physics
• Muon Tomography