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- Country of residence: Palestine
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He returned home about a year ago,
excelling, with a series of achievements that he is proud of, the latest of
which was his fifth patent.
Dr. Wassim Wajih Abu Aoun holds a
PhD in Organic Chemistry and Industrial Catalysis. He works as a part-time
lecturer at An-Najah and Birzeit Universities.
He has many research ideas suitable
for the Palestinian environment, despite the scarcity of resources and the
difficulty of analyzing samples. However, he has several important partnerships
with several research agencies and universities abroad.
He is currently working in the field
of water purification from heavy metals by employing some polymers, and he has
a research activity in the use of nanotechnologies to be used against bacteria
and water purification.
Dr. Wassim received his primary and
secondary education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with distinction, and holds
a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Applied Chemistry from An-Najah National
University.
Dr. Abu Aoun was sent on a
scholarship to the PhD program of King Fahd University of Petroleum and
Minerals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is among the best 200
universities in the world, to join a joint research team between King Fahd
University and the National University of Singapore NUs, which is among the
thirty best universities in the world, to obtain a doctorate with distinction
and distinction .
Dr. Wassim published more than ten
research papers and obtained five patents for Aramco, the “global oil giant.”His research focused on producing and designing new organic materials with
unknown compositions, and using them as catalysts, to be used in industrial
organic reactions that produce useful materials against metal corrosion.
Pharmaceutical materials used in cancer treatment protocol.
As for the fifth patent, it enables
these catalysts to be fixed on plastic polymeric materials with chemical bonds,
so that they can be recycled and used more than ten times, with an efficiency
of up to 98% for the tenth time, which is an important leap in this field in
terms of economic, environmental and medical aspects.
Dr. Abu Aoun participated in more
than 16 international scientific conferences, during which he won four awards,
most notably the award of the Young Researchers Conference at the University of
Jordan, where he won second place among more than 130 researchers from 35
countries.
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