Dr. Hassan S. Bazzi

Senior Associate Professor/PC

Office Number: 349
Office Phone: +974 423-0018
Fax Number: 4230060
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Dr. Hassan S. Bazzi, a multiple-award winner for his academic excellence, teaches a number of courses and labs at Texas A&M University at Qatar, and has taught at Texas A&M University"s main campus in College Station, Texas. He was also in charge, since joining Texas A&M University at Qatar in 2004, of organizing and setting up the teaching chemistry laboratories with the necessary support instrumentation. These labs are fully equipped with state-of-the-art instruments like NMR, FT-IR, UV-Vis-NIR, GC, GC-MS, GPC and DSC-TGA.
Dr. Bazzi's research interests focus mainly on:

• Polymer synthesis and self-assembly
• Supramolecular chemistry
• Organic synthesis
• Utilizing ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) to generate a variety of novel polymeric systems with interesting physical and chemical properties

EDUCATION

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Université de Montréal, 2004
• Doctor of Philosophy, McGill University, 2003
• Master of Science, American University of Beirut, 1998
• Bachelor of Science, American University of Beirut, 1996

EXPERIENCE

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University at Qatar, 2004-present
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, summer 2006     
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Université de Montréal, 2003-2004
• Chemical Weapons Inspector, United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), Iraq, 2003
• Awarded the Lebanese Presidency Shield by H.E. President Emile Lahoud of Lebanon for his duties with the United Nations
• Executive member, the Syndicate of Chemists in Lebanon
• Associate member, Sigma Xi the Scientific Research Society
• Member, American Chemical Society
• Member, Canadian Society of Chemistry
• Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS