Youssef Belmabkhout

Expert in Research and development

Distinguished highly cited scientist (Web of Sciences 2019, 2020, 2021,2022) with combined skills in chemical engineering (oil and gas & fertilizer processes) and multidisciplinary R&D areas (chemical engineering, physical chemistry, Material science, chemistry,…etc) as well as Research management, Technology transfer, innovation and commercialization). The Research and expertise focus in the last 15 years was on the development of advanced separation agents (sorbents) on CO2 Capture, greenhouse gases and toxic gases mitigation 

Main skills: Project Development/management at the interface between Chemistry and Process Engineering, evaluation, characterization and application of nanostructured materials (MOFs, Zeolites,…) and their related processes for various applications (separation, gas storage, catalysis, sensing…etc). CO2 capture technology and gas/vapor/liquid separations specialist with large experience in academic, government and industrial research Laboratories. Management of Technology transfer, Innovation and maturation and elevation of technology readiness level. 

Sept 2021-present   

Full Professor, Director of Technology Development Cell and Founder/director of the applied chemistry and Engineering Research Centre of Excellence (ACER CoE)   at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Lot 660 – Hay Moulay Rachid, 43150, Ben Guerir, Morocco.

Oct 2020-2021           Full Professor and Director of Technology transfer office and Technology Development 

                                    Cell Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Lot 660 – Hay Moulay Rachid, 43150, Ben Guerir,

Sept 2019- June 2020   Full Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Sciences. Green 

                                          Process Engineering Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Lot 660 – Hay Moulay 

                                       Rachid, 43150, Ben Guerir, Morocco.

Nov 2010 – Sept 2019:  Senior Research Scientist and Group Leader at KAUST, FMD3, Center of Advanced     

     Membranes and Porous Materials, Saudi Arabia (Chemical Engineering, Physical   

     chemistry Materials Chemistry, research management).

Sep 2010 - 23 Nov 2010: Research Associate at NRC Institute for Chemical Process and Environmental 

                                         Technology (ICPET), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 

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Aug 2007 - Aug 2010 : Research Associate-PDF at the university of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of 

Chemistry and Department of Chemical Engineering.

Jan 2006 – Jul 2007: Industrial postodoctoral fellow at the French institute of petroleum (IFP), Lyon, France

Nov 2005      PhD in Applied Sciences (Chemical Engineering, Physical Chemistry) Mons   

                       Polytechnic Faculty, Belgium                                   

Oct 2002       MSc degree in Applied Sciences (Chemical Engineering, Physical Chemistry) 

           Mons Polytechnic Faculty, Belgium                                          

June 1999     Process Engineer in Petroleum Technology, oil and gas (Chemical Engineering)     

                      Gubkine Oil and gas University of Moscow, Russia