CURRICULUM VITAE :: DR . AHMED FARAG ALI :: Personal Details Name : Ahmed Farag Ali Date of birth : August 1st , 1982 Marital Status : Married Nationality : Egyptian Present Address: Dr. Ahmed Farag Ali, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Center for Theoretical Physics Faculty of Sciences, Benha University, and Zewail City of Science and Technology Benha 13518, Qaliubiya, EGYPT. Sheikh Zayed District, 12588, 6th of October City, Giza, Egypt Official E-mails: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] [email protected] (Alternate: [email protected] ) Tel: +(20)-12279648363. Fax: +(20)-133225494 Webpage @Benha U Web: http://www.bu.edu.eg/staff/ahmedali7 Webpage @Zewail City Web: http://www.zewailcity.edu.eg/research-institutes/ibs/ctp/staff/ahmed-farag/ :: ACADEMIC EDUCATION :: 1. Ph.D. (2012) Major: Theoretical High Energy Physics Thesis Title: Aspects of Quantum Gravity. University of Lethbridge, CANADA. 1 2. M. Sc. (2008) Major: Theoretical High Energy Physics Thesis Title: Phenomenological Aspects beyond the Standard Model Benha University, EGYPT. 3. ICTP Diploma (2007) Major: High energy Physics. Thesis titled: Fermions mixing and discrete symmetries. Abdus Salam International centre for theoretical physics (ICTP) Trieste, ITALY. 4. Postgraduate studies (2004) Major: Theoretical Physics Grade: 89% Ain Shams University, Cairo, EGYPT. 5. B.Sc. (2003) Major: Physics Grade: B.Sc., Excellent with First Class Honor Benha University, EGYPT :: ACADEMIC POSITIONS :: Jan 2013- : Assistant Professor at Center for Theoretical Physics, Zewail City of Science and Technology, EGYPT. June 2012- : Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences, Benha University, Benha, EGYPT. Sept 2008 – Jan 2012 : Doctoral student and Teaching assistant at University of Lethbridge, Alberta, CANADA. 2005-2008 : M. Sc. student and Demonstrator at Benha University, Benha, EGYPT. 2006-2007 : Diploma student at High Energy Physics Dept at ICTP, Trieste, ITALY. Jan -June2006 : Visiting student to do course work in HEP at IMSC, Chennai, INDIA. 2003-2005 : Demonstrator at Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences, BenhaUniversity, Benha, EGYPT. 2 :: RESEARCH INTERESTS :: My research area is Theoretical/Mathematical Physics and in particular Gravitational Physics. More specifically, I am interested in open problems in Black Holes, Cosmology, Quantum Gravity, Quantum Gravity Phenomenology and String Phenomenology. The primary goal of my current research is to try to extract potential experimental or observational signatures from various approaches to Quantum Gravity. After taking into account experimental errors and other small effects, that quantum gravity effects may be measured in some of the low energy systems, cosmological observations as well as black hole physics. After all, any scientific theory should be able to make testable predictions. Some of my papers have been cited in NATURE JOURNAL: (Nature Phys. 8 (2012) 393-397 ) and in (Nature Phys. 9 (2013) 71-73) confirming that our theoretical predictions can be measured using quantum optics techniques and gravitational waves techniques which is considered as a milestone in the research of quantum gravity phenomenology. Besides, I am interested in approaches which may resolve singularities in general theory of relativity. I have constructed a model which introduces a resolution for big bang singularity. This research has been highlighted in Nature.com (doi:10.1038/nmiddleeast.2013.211) . In addition to that, I am interested in string phenomenology especially the flux Compactification and seeking for appropriate dS string vacua. Besides, I am interested in studying inflation in the context of string theory. :: PUBLICATIONS :: I have fourteen (14) published papers (5 more have been sent for publication) in international scientific journals with high impact factors (IF), such as Phys. Rev. D (IF= 4.558), Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (IF= 6.02), Journal of High Energy Physics (IF=5.7) and Phys. Lett. B (IF= 4.5). In addition, my total number of citations is 330 and my Hirsch (h-) index is 7. More details are available in these links: http://scholar.google.com.eg/citations?user=fVCubX8AAAAJ&hl=en http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.F.Ali.1 1. “Nonsingular Rainbow Universes” Adel Awad, Ahmed Farag Ali, Barun Majumder, JCAP 1310 (2013) 052 . ePrint: arXiv:1308.4343 [gr-qc]. IMPACT FACTOR: 6.02. This paper has been highlight in Nature.com http://www.nature.com/nmiddleeast/2013/131112/full/nmiddleeast.2013.211.html Also this paper has been highlighted in Scientific American Magazine http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rainbow-gravity-universe-beginning 2. “Effect of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle on Post-Inflation Preheating’’. Wissam Chemissany, Saurya Das, Ahmed Farag Ali , Elias C. Vagenas, JCAP 1112 (2011) 017 . E Print: arXiv:1111.7288 [hep-th] IMPACT FACTOR: 6.02. 3. "No Existence of Black Holes at LHC Due to Minimal Length in Quantum Gravity." Ahmed Farag Ali , JHEP 1209 (2012) 067 . e-Print: arXiv:1208.6584 [hep-th]. IMPACT FACTOR: 5.7 3 4. "Minimal length, maximal energy and black-hole remnants". Ahmed Farag Ali, Hassan Nafie and Mostafa Shalaby, EPL (Europhysics Letters) 100 20004 (2012). IMPACT FACTOR: 2.26 5. “A proposal for testing Quantum gravity in the Laboratory’’. Ahmed Farag Ali , Saurya Das, Elias C. Vagenas, Phys.Rev.D84:044013, 2011 . E-Print: arXiv: 1107.3164 [hep-th]. IMPACT FACTOR: 4.691 6. ‘’Minimal Length in Quantum Gravity, Equivalence Principle and Holographic Entropy Bound’’ Ahmed Farag Ali , Class.Quant.Grav.28:065013, 2011 . e-Print: arXiv:1101.4181 [hep-th]. IMPACT FACTOR: 3.562 7. “Discreteness of Space from GUP II: Relativistic Wave Equations” Ahmed Farag Ali , Saurya Das, Elias C Vagenas, Phys.Lett.B690:407-412, 2010 . E-Print: arXiv: 1005.3368 [hep-th]. IMPACT FACTOR: 4.569 8. “Discreteness of Space from generalized uncertainty principle’’.Ahmed Farag Ali , Saurya Das, Elias C Vagenas, Phys.Lett.B678:497-499, 2009 .E-Print: arXiv: 0906.5396v1 [hep-th]. IMPACT FACTOR: 4.569 9. "Modified Newton's Law of Gravitation Due to Minimal Length in Quantum Gravity", Ahmed Farag Ali, Abdel Nasser Tawfik, AHEP 2013 (2013) 126528. arXiv:1301.3508 [gr-qc] IMPACT FACTOR: 3.5 10. "Effects of quantum gravity on the inflationary parameters and thermodynamics of the early universe". A. Tawfik, H. Magdy, Ahmed Farag Ali . Aug 2012. E-Print: arXiv: 1208.5655 [gr-qc]. Gen.Rel.Grav. 45 (2013) 1227-1246. IMPACT FACTOR: 2.07 11. "Effects of Generalized Uncertainty Principle on the Compact stars". Ahmed Farag Ali , A. Tawfik . Int. J. Mod. Phys. D22 (2013) 1350020. IMPACT FACTOR: 1.2 12. " A study on quark-gluon Plasma equation of state using generalized uncertainty principle" N. M. El Naggar, L.I. AbouSalem, I. Elmashad, Ahmed Farag Ali . Journal of Modern Physics 4 (A), 13-20 13. "Towards Thermodynamics with Generalized Uncertainty Principle", Ahmed Farag Ali and Mohammed Moussa, Accepted at Adv. High energy Physics (AHEP). IMPACT FACTOR: 3.5 14. "Planck Scale corrections to Friedman equation", Adel Awad and Ahmed Farag Ali . Accepted at Central European Journal of Physics. IMPACT FACTOR: 1.0 4 Contributions to Conference Proceedings 1. The Generalized Uncertainty Principle and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology. Ahmed Farag Ali , Saurya Das, Elias C. Vagenas, Jan 2010. E-Print: arXiv: 1001.2642 [hep-th], proceedings of 12th Marcel Grossmann conference (Paris, July, 2009). 2. Quantum Gravity Phenomenology. Ahmed Farag Ali, Feb 2013, QCD Primordial Conference, Cairo, EGYPT . Published Thesis: 1. “Fermions Mixing and Discrete Symmetries”, ICTP Diploma Thesis, Ahmed Farag Ali , The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy. 2007. 2. “Phenomenological Aspects Beyond Standard Model”, M.Sc Thesis, Ahmed Farag Ali , Benha University, Egypt.2008. 3. "Aspects of Quantum Gravity", PhD thesis, Ahmed Farag Ali, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, CANADA. 4. "Aspects of Quantum Gravity", PhD thesis, Ahmed Farag Ali, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, CANADA. :: International Media Highlights my research :: 2012. My paper "Nonsingular Rainbow Universes, JCAP 1310 (2013) 052" has been highlighted in Nature.com and in Scientific American Magazine which are known as the top journal and magazine in science. Also the article about our paper is considered as the most popular article on scientific American magazine. Besides, the paper has been highlighted in Yahoo news, Daily news, World Top news, Daily mail newspaper, Salon, NOVA and PBS TV. Also, a discussion on the paper has been done on Sunrise TV show. Some of the international Media which highlighted my paper are as follows: https://twitter.com/sciam/status/410089302966558720 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rainbow-gravity-universe-beginning http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2521901/Forget-Big-Bang--Rainbow-Gravity-theory-suggests- universe-NO-beginning-stretches-infinitely.html http://www.nature.com/nmiddleeast/2013/131112/full/nmiddleeast.2013.211.html http://world.topnewstoday.org/world/article/9024874/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/10/rainbow-gravity-theory-universe- beginning_n_4418017.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/universe-may-have-been-around-since-forever-according-to- rainbow-gravity-theory/ 5 http://news.yahoo.com/39-rainbow-39-universe-time-may-no-beginning-113000291.html https://www.facebook.com/ScientificAmerican/posts/10153574323795246