Shaheen Anis
Materials Science Scientist
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About
An ambitious and curious materials scientist committed towards developing advanced, novel materials for critical applications such as sustainable energy and water treatment, with a vast experience in R&D, student mentoring, teaching, curriculum design, proposal and grant writing, strategic planning for academic programs, and scientific writing.
Experience
MCAT writer- part time (BeMo Academic Consulting, Canada) 2022-present
- Advising students on their personal statements and providing consultation.
- Preparing MCAT exam papers
- Creative thinking; writing AAMC previews and aligning them with core competencies.
Water Research Center
- Discovered a novel application for catalytic nanoparticles (patent filed)
- Developed novel electrically conductive and flexible ceramic membranes for fouling control which showed superior fouling mitigation on an application of intermittent potentials.
- Novel cathode electrocatalyst fabrication; achieved low Tafel slopes and overpotentials compared to several of the existing ones.
- Testing and characterization of membranes for microfiltration, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis.
- Cell culture, bacterial assessment of novel materials for bacteria; antibacterial efficacy of membranes.
- Writing research grants and proposals for center funding.
- Making SOPs and risk assessment documents for chemicals and lab equipment.
- Planning design of experiments to develop novel materials through existing scalable fabrication procedures to fulfil performance standards.
- Ensuring safe running of equipment in the laboratory used for material synthesis and characterization to get maximum efficiency out of the operating conditions.
- Supervising and mentoring graduate students.
- Achieved breakthrough results for electrospun hydrocracking nano zeolite fibers when compared with conventional industrial catalysts; PhD. Thesis in collaboration with ADNOC refining research center (ARRC).
- Studied the structural evolution-property relationship of electrocatalytic nanofibers for hydrogen evolution in acidic and alkaline media.
- Controlling swelling behavior of Poly (Vinyl) Alcohol via Networked Cellulose and its application as a reverse osmosis membrane.
Education
Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Engineering (Major: Materials Science and Engineering) 2018
Khalifa University of Science and Technology, in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology. CGPA: 3.88/4.0
Thesis title: Development of heterogeneous catalytic fibers through electrospinning for energy applications.
Advanced Study Program- Chemical Engineering 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Spring Semester (Secured straight A’s).
