Thermofluids in Sustainable Energy Systems: Fundamentals and Applications

Dr. Zafar Said is an Associate Professor with the Department of Sustainable Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Sharjah, UAE. He also serves as coordinator of the Functional Nanomaterials Synthesis Lab. Dr. Said completed his Ph.D. from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Masdar Institute, UAE, where he has also worked on industrial collaborative projects. Dr. Said works on renewable energy, energy and exergy analysis, solar energy, heat transfer, and nanofluids. He has published over 180 papers, 2 books, 20 book chapters, and 26 conference papers, with more than 15,000 citations, and was also ranked in the World's Top 2% Scientists in 2022, 2021 and 2020 by Elsevier and Stanford University in the field of Energy. He is ranked in the top 100 scientists in the United Arab Emirates and has secured more than 2 million AED in research grants. He has been honoured with several prestigious awards and is also serving as Editorial Board Member for several ISI Journals, as well as Guest Editor for several special issues.

Dr. Essam Abo-Zahhad is a dedicated and accomplished mechanical engineering academic specializing in computational heat transfer and fluid flow. With a solid drive to advance the thermal sciences and engineering field, Essam's academic journey has been marked by exceptional achievements and a commitment to excellence. Essam completed his undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering, where his passion for computational heat transfer and fluid flow first emerged. Motivated by an insatiable enthusiasm, he pursued his M.Sc. and Ph.D. studies at the Egypt-Japan University of Science & Technology in collaboration with the prestigious Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. During his Ph.D., he had the privilege of spending a year at Tokyo Tech, where he designed and implemented an experimental setup to investigate flow boiling phenomena in microchannels, focusing on cooling requirements for high-concentrated multi-junction solar cells. Essam recently joined the Research Institute of Sciences and Engineering (RSIE) at the University of Sharjah. His work focuses on analyzing energy harvesting within national-level research projects in the U.A.E., collaborating with government partners, and conducting studies on renewable Energy and green thermal energy systems