Principal Investigator

Dr. Mohammed Al-Hashimi received his MSci Honors degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 2003, followed by a PhD in 2007, from Queen Mary University of London, UK. He subsequently worked as a Senior Development Chemist at Evotec, Oxfordshire, UK and later joined the Chemistry department at Imperial College London as a postdoc in 2008. Before joining TAMQ in 2013, Al-Hashimi in 2012 worked at Qatar University as an Assistant Professor.

Al-Hashimi currently serves on the editorial board of the journals Current Organic Chemistry and Current Organocatalysis. He has significant project management experience in industrial and academic settings, with direct experience in corporate research and customer-focused business units and managing grants in the UK and Qatar. He currently supervises a team of six postdoctoral research assistants and twelve undergraduate students funded by the Qatar National Research Fund.

Al-Hashimi has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers and holds four patents. He is a recipient of the Donald C. Bradley Prize, the ASPIC Prize, the Lefevre Prize, the ACMME Research Prize, and the Best Research Presentation Award in Energy and Environment Pillar ARC16. Most recently, he was awarded the TAMUQ Faculty Research Excellence Award and named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) .