Dr Nimir Elbashir, a longtime faculty member at Qatar Foundation partner university Texas A&M University at Qatar (Tamuq), has been elected to the membership of the Sudanese National Academy of Sciences (SNAS).
This was announced by the academy’s president, Professor Mohamed Hag Hassan Ali, recently.
Dr Elbashir holds a joint appointment as a professor in the Chemical Engineering Programmr and the Petroleum Engineering Programme at Tamuq. He is the director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Gas and Fuels Research Centre, a major research centre that involves 30 professors from both Texas A&M’s main campus in College Station, Texas (US) and the Qatar campus. Dr Elbashir is also chair of the Oryx GTL Gas-to-Liquid Technology Excellence Programme.
SNAS is a non-governmental organisation based in Khartoum, Sudan, which aims to grow the science and research sector in Sudan through collaborating in the areas of education, science, technology and research. As a member, Dr Elbashir will help grow the organisation’s international networking efforts and provide vital academic and research insight to the country.
Dr Elbashir’s nomination came from SNAS members round the world, including faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and others. The highly competitive process took almost a couple of years and reflects the quality of his research and his contributions to industry and academia in Qatar, Sudan and worldwide.
“I have the utmost pleasure to be elected to such a prestigious organisation for the academici and researcher elites of Sudan from all over the globe,” Dr Elbashir said. “I am grateful for my colleagues who nominated and elected me for this honour. I will do my best to serve the nation and building the connection between Texas A&M University and Sudanese academic and research institutions.”
Dr Elbashir’s research focuses on converting natural gas into valuable hydrocarbon products, including ultraclean fuels or useful chemicals, in a process called gas-to-liquid conversion, or GTL. His current research focus is to advance the decarbonisation of natural gas processing via CO2 utilisation for the production of valuable products. His strategy is three-pronged: to develop highly skilled scientists and engineers in the field of GTL, to add value to Qatar’s current GTL infrastructure, and to find solutions to problems associated with current GTL technology so that Qatar can take a leading role in solving those problems for the whole world.
Dr Elbashir’s contributions to the global research community include several international research collaboration models between academia and the industry in which he has worked with companies such as TotalEnergies, Shell, GE (Oil & Gas), Oryx GTL, Woqod, QatarEnergy and Qatar Airways.
Dr Cesar Octavio Malave, dean of Tamuq, said Dr Elbashir’s election to a prestigious national academy is well deserved and just one example of the quality of faculty members who are educating students at the partner university.
“Dr Nimir Elbashir has been a valuable and valued faculty member since joining our faculty in 2008,” Dr Malave said. “He has proven himself to be an outstanding educator, mentor and researcher, and a leader in the area of novel ultraclean fuels. We are proud to call him a colleague and of all he has accomplished.”
Dr Elbashir holds a joint appointment as a professor in the Chemical Engineering Programmr and the Petroleum Engineering Programme at Tamuq. He is the director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Gas and Fuels Research Centre, a major research centre that involves 30 professors from both Texas A&M’s main campus in College Station, Texas (US) and the Qatar campus. Dr Elbashir is also chair of the Oryx GTL Gas-to-Liquid Technology Excellence Programme.
SNAS is a non-governmental organisation based in Khartoum, Sudan, which aims to grow the science and research sector in Sudan through collaborating in the areas of education, science, technology and research. As a member, Dr Elbashir will help grow the organisation’s international networking efforts and provide vital academic and research insight to the country.
Dr Elbashir’s nomination came from SNAS members round the world, including faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and others. The highly competitive process took almost a couple of years and reflects the quality of his research and his contributions to industry and academia in Qatar, Sudan and worldwide.
“I have the utmost pleasure to be elected to such a prestigious organisation for the academici and researcher elites of Sudan from all over the globe,” Dr Elbashir said. “I am grateful for my colleagues who nominated and elected me for this honour. I will do my best to serve the nation and building the connection between Texas A&M University and Sudanese academic and research institutions.”
Dr Elbashir’s research focuses on converting natural gas into valuable hydrocarbon products, including ultraclean fuels or useful chemicals, in a process called gas-to-liquid conversion, or GTL. His current research focus is to advance the decarbonisation of natural gas processing via CO2 utilisation for the production of valuable products. His strategy is three-pronged: to develop highly skilled scientists and engineers in the field of GTL, to add value to Qatar’s current GTL infrastructure, and to find solutions to problems associated with current GTL technology so that Qatar can take a leading role in solving those problems for the whole world.
Dr Elbashir’s contributions to the global research community include several international research collaboration models between academia and the industry in which he has worked with companies such as TotalEnergies, Shell, GE (Oil & Gas), Oryx GTL, Woqod, QatarEnergy and Qatar Airways.
Dr Cesar Octavio Malave, dean of Tamuq, said Dr Elbashir’s election to a prestigious national academy is well deserved and just one example of the quality of faculty members who are educating students at the partner university.
“Dr Nimir Elbashir has been a valuable and valued faculty member since joining our faculty in 2008,” Dr Malave said. “He has proven himself to be an outstanding educator, mentor and researcher, and a leader in the area of novel ultraclean fuels. We are proud to call him a colleague and of all he has accomplished.”
