Professor Dr. Ali El-Shekeil

Email: [email protected], POBox 12463, Sana’a, , Mobile: 00967733215234

! B.S., Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The University of Baghdad, 1974, Baghdad, Iraq. ! Ph.D., Chemistry, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, 1980. ! Acadimically, Full Professor since 1989. ! Dean and Vice-Dean, Faculty of Science, Sana’a University, Yemen, 1981-1991. ! Sana'a University Professor Prize, 2005. ! Yemen Presidential Prize for Scientific Research, 2009. ! An international POPs expert. Member of UNEPA Excutive Committee on Persistent Organic Pollutants, EC-POPs, since 2005. ! Member of the Hael Saeed Science and Culture Establishment Board of Trustees, since 31/7/2013. ! Member of Scientific Committees for the Establishment of the following: 1) for Science and Technology. 2) . 3) Amran University for Science and Technology. 4) Hadhramout Vally University. ! Visiting professor: 1) Qatar University, 18-25 March 1988. 2) University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, 1-31 Aug. 1989. 3) University of London, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, Egham, Surrey, UK, Aug. 31-Sept.21, 1997. 4) University Putra Malaysia (UPM) July 9 -Oct. 9, 2005.

1 5) University of Hadhramout for Science and Technology, Mukalla, Yemen, May 2011-May 2012. ! Technical Advisor of the Yemen Petroleum Company since 1980. ! Advisor of the Rector of University for scientific research 2009-2012. ! Offered technical consultations to the following Ministries and Organizations: Oil and Minerals, Industry and Commerce, Finance, Water and Environment, Defence, Higher Education and Scientific Research, Education, Yemen Standards and Specifications, Higher Committee for Compating Corruption, Yemen Environmental Protection Authority, Yemen Economic Corporation…among others. ! Management of Science and Technology and Innovation: Three international scientific seminars: 1) Battelle Institute of Technology, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 1-19 Aug., 1988. 2) Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Standing Committee on Science and Technological Cooperation (COMSTEC), Islamabad, Pakistan: Technology Foresight, 30 June – 11 July 2008. 3) Organization of Islamic Cooperation, COMSTEC, Islamabad, Pakistan: Science, Technology and Innovation, 06-24 April 2009. ! Scientific Societies: 1) Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, (FRSC) London, 2003. 2) British Industrial Society, 1987-1991. 2) Member of the American Chemical Society, 1980-1988. 3) Member and Secretary of the Yemen Affiliation of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, IUPAC, 1987 to 91. ! Member of the Scientific Committee for the Nineth Arab Oil and Gas Conference, held in Sanaa, Yemen, September 28-30, 1998. ! Member of Committee for Science and Technology Policy for Yemen, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, since 2002. ! The representative of Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the Board of the University of Science and Technology, since 2006. ! Head of Committee for Writing Chemistry Books for Secondary Schools, Ministry of Education, 1982-1985. ! Member of Committee for Writing Chemistry Books for Secondary Schools, The new curriculum, Ministry of Education, 2002-2008. ! Member of editorial board of the following: 1) Asian Journal of Chemistry, India, since1992. 2) Journal for Science and Technology, since 1995. 3) Taiz University Journal for Science and Technology, since 2008. 4) Member of Senior Advisors Board, Cancer Reasearch Updates Journal, since 2012. ! Member of the Academic Council, Sana’a University, 1995 to 2005. ! President or member of more than 15 University Committees.

2 ! Supervised 12 Ph. D. Dissertations and 11 M. S. Theses and examined/evaluated 9 M. S. Theses and 8 Ph.D. Dissertations. ! Attended 40+ International Scientific Conferences in the following countries: USA, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, USSR, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, The Netherlands, Jordan, Libya, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Swizerland, Morocco, Iraq, Qatar, and Yemen. ! Published 25+ books; many in simplification of science and technology for children and non-specialists. ! Published 100+ Papers in some of the most famous international scientific refereed journals in the world, in the following countries: USA, China, Russia, Egypt, Britain, Japan, The Netherlands, Hungary, Pakistan, Romania, Qatar, India, UAE, Iraq, Germany and Yemen. ! Scientific studies: 1) 25 in oil industry. 2) 20 environmental studies. 3) 8 alternative and renewable energy studies. 4) 10 published studies (papers) in Chemical Industries in the Islamic Civilization. ! Simplifid Science and Technology for Children, 10 books, 600+ A4 pages, in Arabic: Oil, Solar Energy, Alternative Energies, Nuclear Energy, Plastics, Chemical Industries, Water, Environmental Pollution, Metals and Alloys and The Universe. ! An international scientific referee; refereed for almost all journals in Polymer Chemistry, specifically electrically conducting polymers and many organic chemistry journals. ! The best researcher in Yemen for a serries of consequetive years according to Science Direct and Scoopus.

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