The scientific and personal record
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The archive reaches back to the school chemistry exhibition I organized in 2009, before the 2011 anatomy lesson, and continues through laboratory benches, chemistry festivals, international meetings and research visits. Its photographs show the people, instruments and scientific communities around the work, including the ordinary days that never became a paper. Dates are shown where the surviving records support them, and the research and community activities remain documented in their original context.
2009–present · Research · ACS · Bioengineering · Materials · Teaching
2026 / Present day
From early laboratory training and the founding of a chemistry student chapter to experimental bioengineering, pharmaceutical sciences and scientific writing, the record is one of growing scientific questions and the communities built around them.
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Selected chronology
INSTRUMENTS, MATERIALS & MOMENTS
My microscope, laboratory notebooks and early photographs are gathered here with the stories of where they came from and how I used them.
An instrument acquired near Qasr El Einy, carried to Qatar and used for independent observation beyond scheduled laboratory access.
Read its history Read the standalone account ↗Open archived photograph ↗: The microscope from Cairo
An early encounter with the difference between a manipulable molecular model and the behaviour of an actual chemical system.
See the model story Open archived photograph ↗: A model in my hands
An attempted zebrafish histology workflow in which agarose pre-embedding and paraffin processing did not form a workable sectioning system.
Read the method account Read the standalone account ↗Open archived photograph ↗: The section that failed
A photographic entrance into the student chemistry community and the activities that developed alongside laboratory work.
Read the community story Open archived photograph ↗: Chemistry in public
Two sides of the same pyridine-4-carboxaldehyde bottle, photographed on 19 May 2018 during my undergraduate chemistry years.
View both labels and context See reverse label ↗ Open archived photograph ↗: An aldehyde from the imine work
A photograph associated with my troublesome copolymer material. The photo-library records Qatar University, 17 July 2017.
Read the copolymer account Open archived photograph ↗: The sample that resisted
Analysis, impurity and handling information on the reverse of the same thesis-era reagent bottle.
Read the reagent story See front label ↗ Open archived photograph ↗: The other side of the bottle
Pipettes and a benchtop centrifuge inside a laboratory hood.
See the apparatus archive Open archived photograph ↗: Inside the culture hoodThe older photo galleries and research recordings continue below, with their dates and source details.
SCHOOL ARCHIVE / BEFORE UNIVERSITY
I organized a school chemistry exhibition in 2009. The photographs here show my first chemistry teacher, Mr. Aref Elahmad, after a Grade 10 research presentation, and my high-school graduation at sixteen with Mr. Jameel Al-Shamarri.
My first chemistry teacher, after I presented research at the Grade 10 chemistry festival.
With Mr. Jameel Al-Shamarri.
Photographic archive / original uploaded records
An early photograph from my university research period.
A university-era photograph from the formative years of QUACS.
A photograph from an early academic event.
An early photograph beside a computer.
A portrait from my university years.
These photographs come from my personal archive, including school and university years.
Scientific organizations and public engagement
Chapter founding and leadership, Chem Talks, demonstration events, science outreach, research-methods sessions and training for 29 students. International ACS meetings provided a route for younger researchers to enter a wider professional community.
Explore the original QUACS Instagram events ↗ACS participation, presentations and chapter representation. Contemporary newspaper coverage independently documents participation in the 2017 American Chemical Society meeting in Washington.
Read 2017 newspaper coverage ↗Electrospun polymer systems, plasma-treated scaffolds, biomedical textiles and related scientific events have formed a sustained part of my professional activity. Conference organization and scientific hosting belong to this wider effort.
Explore biomaterials techniques ↗Judging student research, mentoring early-career researchers and communicating experimental science through public writing and scientific activities.
Professional activity on LinkedIn ↗Research work / illustrated context
The figures in this gallery are explanatory visuals, not screenshots of experimental results.
Research notebook / original photographs and plots
The original TiO₂ humidity-response plots, droplet-profile images and photographs of our 2017 ACS meeting, including the block-copolymer micelles poster and the astrochemistry gathering with Prof. Jan Kwak.
