Energies Webinar | Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Systems

Prof. Dr. Abdul Ghani Olabi

(1) Department of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, (2) Mechanical Engineering and Design, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom;
Prof Olabi is Chair and Head of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Department “SREE” at the University Of Sharjah “UOS”. Before joining UOS, he was the director and founding member of the Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies at the University of the West of Scotland. Prof Olabi received his M.Eng and Ph.D. from Dublin City University, since 1984 he worked at different national and international institutes such as; National Research Centre-Italy “CNR”, Research Centre of FIAT-Italy “CRF”, Dublin City University “DCU”, Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies “IEET” at UWS, and Aston University. Prof Olabi is an Academic Expert Reviewer, he acted as member and chairman for a number of accreditation panels. Prof Olabi has supervised postgraduate research students (38 PhD) to successful completion. Prof Olabi has edited more than 30 proceedings and has published more than 400 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and international conferences, in addition to more than 50 book chapters. In the last 4 years Prof Olabi has patented 2 innovative projects. Prof Olabi is the founder of the International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Protection SEEP, www.seepconference.com and the International Conference on Materials Science and Smart Materials. He is the Editor in Chief of Renewable Energy section of Energies, Subject Editor of the Elsevier Energy Journal, Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia of Smart Materials (Elsevier), Editor of the Reference Module of Materials Science and Engineering (Elsevier), and board member of a few other journals. Prof Olabi has coordinated different National, EU and International Projects. He has produced different reports to the Irish Gov. regarding: Hydrogen and Fuel Cells and Solar Energy.