ACHIEVEMENTS

Graduate Students

Student Awards

  • Oman’s National Research Award 2023, Oman’s Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. Best published research led by a young researcher (non-PhD holder) in the Energy and Industry field. PhD Student. Mohammed Al-Breiki. 2023.
  • Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). Ph.D. Student. Ragad Faisal Alshebli, 2023-2027
  • Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). Ph.D. Student. Aisha Khalil I A Al-Asmakh, 2023-2027
  • Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). Ph.D. Student. Lama Saeed A S Alsowaidi, 2023-2027
  • Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). Ph.D. Student. Dindha Andriani, 2022-2026
  • Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). Ph.D. Student. Aliya Banu, 2022-2026
  • Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition (3rd Place), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) students, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Amro Mohamed, March 21, 2022.
  • 15th Education Excellence Award in Qatar, Master Degree Holder, MSc Student. Manal AlShafi, 2022.
  • 15th Education Excellence Award in Qatar, Ph.D. Degree Holder, Ph.D. Student. Khalid Al-Khori (Co-Supervisor), 2022.
  • Researchers Exchange and Mobility Program (REMP), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Ph.D. Student, Amro Mohamed, 2021.
  • Researchers Exchange and Mobility Program (REMP), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), MSc Student, Aliya Banu, 2021.
  • Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). MSc Student. Aliya Banu, 2020-2022.
  • Oman’s National Research Award 2020, Oman’s Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. Best published research led by a young researcher (non-PhD holder) in the Energy and Industry field. MSc Student. Mohammed Al-Breiki. 2020.
  • KAHRAMAA Engineer’s Day Award, Green Electrical Vehicle Charging Station. Ph.D. Student, Abdulla Al-Wahedi. 2019.
  • 13th Education Excellence Award in Qatar, Master Degree Holder, MSc Student. Mohammed Al-Housani, (Co-supervisor), 2019.
  • 6th Student Awards for Advancement of Post Graduate Education. ORYX GTL Student Awards, Ph.D. Student, Amro Mohamed, 2019
  • 5th Student Awards for Advancement of Post Graduate Education. ORYX GTL Student Awards. Ph.D. Student, Khalid Al-Khori, 2018. (Co-supervisor)
  • Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). MSc Student. Nour Mardini, 2019-2021
  • Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). MSc Student. Namra Mir, 2019-2021
  • Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). Ph.D. Student. Amro Mohamed, 2018-2022

Dr. Yusuf Bicer

Awards

  • Teaching Excellence Award 2023 / Hamad Bin Khalifa University, 
    Doha, Qatar / 2023
  • Young Researcher Award 2020 / National Hydrogen Technologies Association
    Istanbul, TURKEY / 1st – 2020
  • Best Young Researcher Award / International Istanbul Smart Grid Congress and Fair (ICSG 2015), Istanbul, TURKEY / 1st – 2015

Conferences

Sustainable Utilization of Novel Renewable Energy Integration & Storage

SunReis (Sustainable Utilization of Novel Renewable Energy Integration & Storage)

SunReis (Sustainable Utilization of Novel Renewable Energy Integration & Storage) is a research group at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar, led by Dr. Yusuf Bicer. The acronym is derived from 'sunrays', where “reis” means leader/president in Arabic and Turkish. The group’s research interests include sustainability, energy storage, energy carriers, hydrogen, ammonia, integrated energy systems, cooling, desalination, carbon capture & management and renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, and ocean.