My Alı El Khakani

My Ali El Khakani is a Full-Professor and Director of the “NanoMat” Group at the INRS Energy Materials and Telecom Center (INRS is one of the constituting institutions of University of Quebec, Canada). Prof. El Khakani is an internationally recognized expert in the inter-related fields of laser/plasma based synthesis and hybridization of nanostructured materials and their applications for photo-electronic, photovoltaic and photocatalytic devices. He has published so far more than 340 refereed publications, and he is a co-inventor of 5 patents. His current H-index is 50 (google Scholar) with more than 8700 citations so far. To date, more than 94 highly qualified persons (including BSc, MSc, PhD and PDFs) have been trained and graduated under his supervision/co-supervision. Many of his former students are now eminent professors at universities or R&D leaders in research institutions and high-tech industries in Canada and abroad. The R&D contributions and expertise of Prof. El Khakani are well recognized at both national and international levels, as testified by a large number of invited/keynote talks at international conferences, and through appointments as a scientific reviewer and a member of advisory boards for various universities and public/private R&D funding agencies in different countries. He has been serving on the scientific advisory boards of numerous international conferences. He has co-organized several scientific international workshops, symposiums and conferences. He has been the General Chair of the ICMAP-2018 international conference (Montreal, Qc, Canada) in 2018. He has served on the editorial board of sensors letters, and he is currently member of the editorial board of the MDPI-Nanomaterials, ISRN-Nanotechnology, and Nature-Scientific Reports journals. His list of published papers is accessible on google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=Pw6ibJgAAAAJ&view_op=list_works