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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.