Dr. Haydar Aljaafari
Assistant Professor
Title
- Lecture
Education
- Ph.D. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, May 2022 (GPA 3.9/4.00)
- M.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad-Iraq, July 2012 (Ranked 1 among 8 graduates)
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad-Iraq, July 2006 (Ranked 2 among 288 graduates)
Research Interests
Reactions kinetic, Catalyst preparation, Reactive distillation, Azeotropic and extractive distillation, Adsorption, Modeling, Simulation, Optimization, Control
Teaching
• Bio-Separation.
• Physical Chemistry
• Fluid Flow
• Separation
• Aspen HYSYS
• Statistics
• Chemical Industries.
• Thermal Susceptibility and Antibiotic Synergism of Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms.
• Thermal Shock and Ciprofloxacin Act Orthogonally on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms.
• Adsorption of Methyl Green Stain from Aqueous Solutions using Non-conventional Adsorbent
• Promising evolution of biofuel generations. Subject review..
• Thermal Shock Susceptibility and Regrowth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms.
• Experimental investigation and optimization of air sparging on hollow fiber membrane performance.
• Poly(ether sulfone) (PES) hollow-fiber membranes prepared from various spinning parameters.
• Effect of the preparation conditions on the morphology and performance of poly(imide) hollow fiber membranes.
• Kammermeyer Research Award from the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering 2022.
• Microbes at Biomedical Interfaces Graduate Student Competition Award from AIChE Annual Meeting 2020.
• Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowships Award from Graduate College UI Fall 2020.
• Two Summer Fellowship Award from Graduate College UI Summer 2020, 2019.
• Two Travel grants award from Graduate Student Senate 2020, 2017
• Finalist of Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition University of Iowa 2019.
• Winner of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department Three Minute Thesis (3MT)Competition 2019.
• Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Award from Graduate College UI Fall 2018.
• Two Travel grant award from Graduate & Professional Student Government 2017, 2018.
• Fellowship sponsored by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.