Biography

Prof. Dr. Mohamed A. Habila works as professor of chemistry, King Saud University. He is a board member of Saudi Chemical Society. He is interested in nanotechnology for development of clean methods for separation of environmental pollutants, improvement of solid phase extraction and dispersive micro-extraction, water and wastewater treatments, and synthesis and characterization of nano-porous multifunctional core-shell structures for various applications. Prof. Habila has supervised more than 10 MSc and PhD. Students. Prof. Habila has delivered more than 25 public lectures in chemistry in local and international conferences and scientific events. He received the following awards:
-The third position of the King Saud University Scientific Excellence Prize 2013, for seventh branch in science and engineering.
-Almarai Prize 2014 for the best creative research work (Co researcher).
-The prize of the best oral presentation in the first scientific student meeting of Saudi Chemical Society 2013.
-Academics World Excellent Paper Award for the category best presentation/best -content at the Academics World International Conference held in Athens, Greece on 7th October 2015.
-Saudi Chemical Society for excellence in Society services, 2019.
-IAAM Young Scientist Medal, 2022. International Association of Advanced Materials.
- FIAAM, 2023. Fellow International Association of Advanced Materials.

* During 2015-2021, I have achieved short terms training programs (active learning strategies, laboratory safety, mentoring scientists and institutions, managing research projects and spreading knowledge), in King Saud University as follow:
1) Using Social media Technologies in Classroom, 1/11/2015 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

2) Deep Learning through HHH (Heart, head, and Hand) Model, 28-29/10/2015 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

3) Black board, 22/10/2015 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

4) Application of clickers in Classroom, 16/11/2015(Center for Excellence In Learning and Teaching - King Saud University)

5) Course design and construction, 10-11/4/2016 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

6) Effective teaching and active learning, 26-28/4/2016 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

7) Learning outcomes assessment, 1-2/5/2016 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

8) Micro teaching, 3/5/2016 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

9) Motivating and engaging Student, 27/9/2016 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

10) Improving student learning, 28/9/2016 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

11) Utilizing problem solving approach in teaching, 29/9/2016 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

12) Mentoring Faculty, 30/9/2016 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

13) Books writing and publishing, 4-5/12/2016 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

14) Safe and comfort learning environment, 12/12/2016 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

15) Applications of mobile learning, 20-21/12/2016 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

16) Program Self Study, 25-26/12/2016 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

17) Course Specification and Report, 15-16/1/2017 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

18) Emotional Intelligence in Higher Education teaching, 3/1/2017 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

19) Statistical Tests using SPSS, 17-18/1/2017 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

20) Student Learning Support, 24/1/2017 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

21) Programs for writing and compiling scientific references, 25/1/2017 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

22) Plagiarism, 13/2/2017 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

23) Preparation and designing of training materials, 8-9/10/2019 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

24) Competencies of professional teaching, 26/10/2017 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

25) Critical thinking and active learning, 10-11/5/2017 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

26) Fast reading skills, 7/5/2017 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

27) Projects and research proposals writing, 8-9/3/2016 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

28) Continuous improvement system “kaizen”, 14-15/2/2017 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

29) Scientific thesis supervision and discussion skills, 26/3/2017 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).

30) Establishing research management, 27/2/2017 (Deanship of Skills development – King Saud University).