Advisory Board Members 2025

 
 

 

Deputy Director, Center for Catalysis and Separation,
Associate Professor Chemistry, Khalifa University

Dr Ahsan Ul Haq Qurashi

Ahsan earned his PhD from Chonbuk National University, South Korea, and completed post-doctoral work at Toyama University, Toyama, Japan under the Venture Business Laboratory (VBL) program. He joined King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia as Assistant Professor of Chemistry in 2010. In 2016, he was promoted to Associate Professor. He joined as Associate Professor of Chemistry at Khalifa University in 2019. Undergraduate, M.S. and PhD students have been supervised and co-supervised in strategically important research areas. His main research interests are the development of new materials, novel methods for the production of materials for clean energy generation and storage, catalysis, sensors and biomedical applications. He is subject editor/editorial board member for the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (Sabbatical), Materials Research Bulletin and Scientific Reports.

 

Chief Scientist and Head of Advanced Composites Division

Dr Ramesh Kumar M

Over Thirty-three years of progressive experience in the aircraft industry in the areas of manufacturing, testing of Composites for airframes for CSIR - National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore. Non Destructive Testing (NDT) of material, evaluation, inspection process for development of composites and documentation. Data generation and characterization composite test coupons. Development of manufacturing composite tool, parts and Assembly of sub-structures. Many techniques adopted for curing composite part using autoclave of different cure cycles. Nominated as Deputy Head and subsequently as Head of Quality Assurance for DGAQA. Based on the expertise in Composites activity CSIR –NAL nominated me as Deputy Head of the division and continued as Head of Advanced Composites Division since 2022 also, designated as Chief Scientist.